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“ Security is a global game . You really need to understand the global geopolitical trends and be able to track cyber criminal gangs and operations and how they ' ve industrialised their activities across borders and different technology types .”
While global insights are necessary for organisations , in terms of securing their operations – particularly in the realm of supply chains – they must also champion solutions that provide pinpoint accuracy in the event of a cyber attack . This narrows down the entry point of an organisation and remedial work can begin much faster .
“ How does this trade off in the supply chain ? Well , understanding and knowing all of the organisations that you as an individual company work with , being able to track and understand their risks , and to highlight and understand trends across those suppliers – these are things that you can only get with that global scale oversight .”
The company ’ s risk rating product provides organisations with that capability and allows them to visualise their primary risks and the vulnerabilities that are presented through working with other organisations .
With the implementation of the internet of things ( IoT ) into industrial settings , such as manufacturing and utilities , the key to achieving this successfully is to , again , look at the number of entry points and apply logic similar to that of the supply chain .
“ Industrialisation has lowered the price point for cyber criminals to attack and allowed them to prosecute attacks at a much greater scale . They ' re able to then directly monetise both the extortion of the data that ’ s released and secondary sale on the black market or the deep web ,” explains Kawalec . cybermagazine . com 65