IANS Emerging Issue Briefing: Recent Supply Chain Compromises: Implications, Assessments and Defenses

The past month has seen a variety of supply chain compromises. In this emerging issue briefing, we’ll delve into the pertinent implications of those compromises for CISOs and their teams. On the third-party services side, we'll discuss the continuing fallout from recent Salesloft, Red Hat and Oracle breaches. Then we'll discuss impacts from software component supply chain issues, including npm, RubyGems and an attempted PyPi package takeover. We’ll also examine the first known (but certainly not the last) backdoor in an enterprise MCP server. Finally, we'll explore what orgs should be doing to respond to existing incidents and position themselves to be maximally resilient to future supply chain security attacks.