Supply chain attacks are up, defences are patchy, report

Plenty of awareness, not so much effective action finds Checkmarx

John Leonard
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Supply chain attacks are up, defences are patchy, report
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Supply chain attacks are up, defences are patchy, report

Since the SolarWinds and Kaseya attacks in the early years of this decade, the awareness that component libraries and modules can be hijacked and modified to introduce vulnerabilities into enterprise software has grown.

In 2021, the Biden administration released Executive Order (EO) 14028, which charged US agencies with enhancing their cybersecurity through a variety of initiatives related to the security and inte...

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