CLOUD AND CYBER
“ OUR RECENT RESEARCH SHOWS THAT 40 % OF ORGANISATIONS HAVE BEEN VICTIM TO A CYBERATTACK THAT IMPACTED THEIR SMART FACTORIES IN THE PAST YEAR , AND THIS IS ONLY GOING TO BECOME MORE COMMON IF ORGANISATIONS DON ’ T REACT ”
GEERT VAN DER LINDEN EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT CYBER SECURITY , CAPGEMINI
Cybersecurity spending increases , but new tactics are required In the Gartner report Combating Enterprise and Ecosystem Cybersecurity Threats , released in September , it was discovered 63 % of the respondents expected to see a rise in spending on supply chain cybersecurity by at least 5 %, and that the most popular technique for fighting supply chain cyber attacks is a straightforward audit of suppliers , manufacturers and logistics partners . But this is not enough .
“ As encouraging as it is to see the positive steps the profession has taken over the last five years , our research shows that organisations have an inflated sense of their supply chain ’ s cybersecurity ,” says Atwood . Respondents were asked how secure they thought their supply chains were on a scale of 1 to 7 – with
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