teissLondon2022: Measuring and strengthening the supply chain’s cyber-resilience

teissLondon2022 kicked off on Thursday, 8th September, bringing in expert insights from cyber security industry leaders and practitioners on addressing the major cyber security pain points of organisations across industries. In a panel discussion, cyber security experts discussed how to measure and boost your supply chain’s cyber resilience.

Cyber attacks targeting any organisation’s supply chain can have severe repercussions on profitability, customer satisfaction, business reputation and growth. It is, therefore, the responsibility of organisations to ensure their supply chain vendors are resilient to cyber attacks and can ensure the security of enterprise and customer data at all times.

To provide an accurate picture of how organisations can measure their supply chain’s cyber-resilience, the teissLondon2022 conference featured a panel discussion, bringing to the table Simon Newman, the CEO of Cyber Resilience Centre for London, Steve Brown, Director, Cyber Resilience, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard, and Nick Harris, Director of InfoSec and Cyber Resilience, Oxford Nanopore Technologies.

The three experts discussed why involving procurement professionals in creating a supply chain assurance process is essential, how can organisations carry out due diligence and vulnerability testing on the supply chain, and how to best evaluate the implications of supply chain data breaches on your organisation.

The experts would also touch upon some critical factors, such as whether enforcing a security culture could play spoilsport with the relationship that vendors and their client companies enjoy, the kind of supply chain regulations, such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act, that organisations and their supply chain vendors must adhere to, and what are the things that UK-based organisations with supply chain vendors based in Europe should consider when looking at supply chain security.