Currently, most organizations use technology to carry out their activities, so cybersecurity is an essential element for the correct performance of technology in the company’s production process.
How then does cybersecurity relate to business resilience in the supply chain?
Resilience is a key factor that involves the entire organization. In the case of the supply chain, it is of vital importance, since it implies the ability to face and resolve possible interruptions that were not foreseen in the operation. Now, cybersecurity in this case would act as an intermediary tool to achieve resilience in the different scenarios presented by the supply chain.
Cybersecurity allows companies to be protected from possible cyber risks, thus protecting the digital and technological environment with which they work. Generally, it is taken into account as a protection and preservation activity, but it should also act as a tool that, together with appropriate strategies, will provide results and promote the active management of resilience in the supply chain.
Some cybersecurity approaches that drive supply chain resilience include:
- Visibility : Establishment and visibility of cyber threats that affect the supply chain in the company.
- Monitoring: Development of monitoring and possible defense strategies against cyber threats, aligned to the supply chain process.
- Management: Management of continuous threats that allow the expansion of the digital environment and the processes corresponding to the supply chain without these being affected in their expansion process.
- IAM Access: Identity and Access Management (IAM) to protect against attacks on the identity infrastructure and adaptation to data protection and privacy regulations managed within the supply chain.
Cybersecurity plays a key role in achieving resilience in the supply chain, and although the three are terms that seem distant, they have a broad connection and working with them can help drive positive results.
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