Supply Chain Attacks: Risk Mitigation Advice

March 19, 2021 – Article posted on HealthcareInfoSec

HealthInfoSec recently sat down with Tony Cook, heat of threat intelligence at GuidePoint Security, to discuss risks posed by third party vendors.

“What we’re starting to see is that it is much easier for attackers to compromise what you use in your environment in order to get inside your environment – and that’s the premise in the supply chain attacks we’re seeing, whether it’s Accellion or Solarwinds or other [recent vendor incidents],” he says.

“Attackers are finding that they can … attack the companies you use every day to get their malware and goals done in your environment,” he says in an interview with Information Security Media Group.

To mitigate supply chain attack risks, organizations must take a methodical approach, he says.

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