Upcoming SCMR Blog Series:  The Four Fundamentals to Reducing Your Cyber Risk

As our readers know, cybersecurity is one of the top challenges supply chain and business leaders are facing on an ongoing basis. Furthermore, the nature of cybersecurity creates a huge tension between action plans to reduce risk and action plans that increase efficiency through digital tools.

Beginning next month, the Global Supply Chain Institute at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be providing us with expert analysis of the latest trends in this hot topic area.

Since cybersecurity poses a significant business risk, managers cannot afford to forego advances in information technology allowing supply chains to drive efficiencies, respond to fast-changing customer markets, and collect and make sense of massive amounts of data across a wide range of supply chain processes.

This series of cyber risk articles will address this tension and what supply chain leaders need to be doing now to secure their supply chains for future success. Although people are at the center of most cyber attacks (non-updated software, phishing attacks, poor passwords, etc.), this series will focus on the end-to-end nature of cyber risk.

The Global Supply Chain Institute interviewed over 30 companies and cyber experts on the cybersecurity risks facing supply chains. These interviews provided a wealth of information on how supply chain professionals should understand and assess cyber risks to their organizations, and what they need to be doing to build a cyber-secure supply chain.

Out of these interviews, the GSCI team formulated:

• Core definitions of fundamental aspects of cyber
• Four fundamentals of managing cybersecurity
• Best Practices for managing cyber risk

We invite our readers to bookmark this site for six new and compelling articles on this vital subject.

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