Understanding your supply chain is the first step to securing it.✅ Cyber attackers are actively searching for weaknesses to exploit. If parts of your supply chain are under-secured, your business operations could be vulnerable to disruptive cyber attacks and you may not know it. Cyber Essentials, the UK government-backed baseline for cyber security, provides an efficient way for organisations to gain assurance that suppliers have controls in place to protect against most common cyber attacks. Try the Supplier Check Tool today to find out whether your suppliers are Cyber Essentials certified⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dNac6Xk8
Adv Shoeb Hakim
14h
The Supplier Check Tool is a welcome step for supply chain security, but it has a significant limitation: Cyber Essentials is a self-assessment, not an independent audit. A certification provides a baseline, but it does not guarantee that the controls are operating effectively . The real value of the tool is in enabling a conversation about security, not just a checkbox. The challenge is to move beyond a "snapshot" of compliance and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
I believe Cyber Essentials is a solid start. It shows intent and puts the fundamentals in place. But security is never a one and done exercise. Attacks will happen. What I’m seeing more and more with our clients is a much stronger focus on what happens next. A well rehearsed and well executed incident response can make the difference between a disruption and a crisis.
OxCyber
1w
A valuable reminder that supply chain security starts with visibility. Knowing which suppliers have the right baseline controls in place can help organisations identify and reduce third-party risk before it becomes a problem
An important reminder that supply chain security starts with visibility. The Supplier Check Tool gives organisations a practical way to assess supplier assurance and identify potential cyber risks before they become a wider business issue. 👏
Absolutely. Supply-chain security is an important part of overall cyber resilience, and having better visibility across third-party relationships can help organisations manage risk more effectively.
UMESH TANK
1w
Supply-chain security is a shared responsibility. Understanding which suppliers have appropriate security controls in place is an important step towards reducing third-party risk and strengthening organisational resilience.
We see this more and more now, if you don't understand the supply chain hackers do, and will work their way to you via easier targets in your supply chain.
Supply-chain security is an increasingly important part of an organisation’s overall cyber risk strategy. Understanding the security posture of suppliers and having appropriate assurance in place can significantly reduce third-party exposure. 🔐
CYVRA
1w
Supply chain reviews are still very lacking in many companies, and sadly some learn this the hard way.
Cyber Essentials is the right baseline for traditional supply chain assurance. The AI supply chain introduces a threat class it was not designed to address. A poisoned LiteLLM package doesn't just steal credentials — it sits on the inference call path and intercepts every prompt, manipulates every response, and injects instructions into agent tool calls. Silently. Across every deployment that pulled that version. SPECTER HALLUBOT goes further — weaponising LLM hallucinations as supply chain infrastructure. Agents hallucinate package names at 85-100% rates. Adversaries pre-register those names and host adversarial payloads. No social engineering. No CVE. The agent builds its own compromise. Cyber Essentials asks whether your suppliers have controls in place. The AI supply chain question is whether your agents can be made to trust suppliers that don't exist. Different threat model. Different controls needed. Red Specter Security Research