Supply chain penetration: Here’s how you can protect yourself

The news-making SolarWinds Orion attack has drawn attention towards supply chain security vulnerabilities – especially the ones that involve third-party software applications and hardware components that sum up most of these day’s enterprise IT environments. This attack potentially impacted more than 18,000 organisations, spread from a compromise of third-party network management vendor SolarWind’s Orion software.

The progression of supply chain attacks

While the SolarWinds compromise is bizarre in many ways, supply chain attacks are not at all a new thing. For a long time now, attackers have targeted third-party vendors across both digital and physical supply chains – from software and technology providers, to attorneys and consultants,