Learning Supply Chain Cybersecurity

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Overview

Learn how cybersecurity best practices, policies, and processes can made your supply chain more secure.

Business supply chains are becoming more complex and reliant on technology. This opens them to unique cyber risks—and increased regulatory requirements. Explore the challenges, considerations, and potential conflicts of interest businesses face as they begin to address cybersecurity in the supply chain. Dr. Emma Osborn discusses how supply chains are evolving, and the different ways that businesses within the supply chain interact. She reviews examples of real-world supply chains and uses these to explore how the scope of cybersecurity risk is creeping past traditional organizational boundaries. You can then learn some approaches for managing relationships and improving supply chain security, discovering what works best for each scenario.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • The importance of supply chain cybersecurity
  • What you should know before watching this course
1. How Are Supply Chains Evolving?
  • Swapping security for ease of use
  • Scope creep: Comparing organizational and supply chain cybersecurity
  • Cyberthreats in the supply chain
  • Comparing common cybersecurity practices to supply chain security issues
2. What Does Cybersecurity Look Like across Different Supply Chains?
  • Example 1: Large organization, thousands of suppliers of different sizes
  • Example 2: Small or medium-sized business, a number of large customers
  • Example 3: Ecosystem of SMEs/SMBs
3. How Can Cyber Risk Be Evaluated in the Supply Chain?
  • When working in a supply chain, who owns what?
  • Why might a supplier’s risk assessment differ from their customer’s?
4. What Approaches Can Improve Supply Chain Cybersecurity?
  • Policies and compliance
  • Adapting responsibilities
  • Prioritizing transparency and communication
  • Making security easier
  • Combatting complexity
  • Changing perceptions
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Emma Osborn