𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻.
Production has been offline for weeks at Jaguar Land Rover, with no sign of recovery in sight following a cyber attack at the end of August. Thousands of jobs are potentially at risk throughout the supply chain as the shutdown impacts the organisations that supply JLR.
Cyber risk does not stop at your network firewall, it encompasses your entire supply chain, impacting every organisation that you do business with.
𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗻.
To protect against supply chain disruption, you should:
- Map critical dependencies to understand where single points of failure exist.
- Set minimum cyber standards for suppliers, enforcing hygiene practices and provide guidance to smaller partners.
- Build in redundancy and diversify suppliers to avoid over-reliance.
- Integrate supply chain into incident response plans so you know how to communicate, isolate, and recover jointly.
- Invest in detection and collaboration so you can share intelligence with industry peers and government to strengthen collective defence.
Cybersecurity is no longer just an IT concern. It’s a strategic risk to revenue, operations, and brand trust, and the JLR incident proves how quickly disruption can spread throughout the supply chain, and how long this disruption can last.
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