| |July 20218By Shrikant Shitole, VP (India & SAARC), FireEye, IncT he COVID-19 situation has again renewed focus on supply chain management. While India comprises a reliable supply-chain network (SCN) that is strongly connected through modern communication and technology, supply chain resilience will soon become the top priority, especially with the increasing demand for online ordering services, and due to a surge in bulk buying behavior of the consumers. Certain aspects of consumer buying patterns have also changed ever since the lockdown was imposed in India in March. It has directly affected the process of procurement at various levels and increased the security risk to the supply chain.Today, organizations are struggling to catch up to ever-increasing demands for new services, new capabilities and better customer facing goodness, teams are looking to leverage and integrate more third-party developed offerings in order to meet tight deadlines. The risk to internal systems is higher than it was in the pre-COVID world.As these components become fully intertwined with internal systems, it becomes harder to identify individual sources that impact their security and, more importantly, clearly highlight dependencies and risks from this supply chain. We have observed recently that cybercriminals are moving towards expert opinionTHE INVISIBLE RISK TO SUPPLY CHAIN AND WHY IT IS A TOP SECURITY PRIORITYA professional leader with 26+ years of experience and collaborative skills and abilities in team management and forging business partnerships to expand business coverage.Shrikant Shitole
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