CISOs’ role in identifying tech components and managing supply chains>
Help Net Security – Mirko Zorz
Nate Warfield, Director of Threat Research and Intelligence at Eclypsium, underscores key tasks for CISOs in protecting supply chains and enhancing visibility, emphasizing the critical necessity of identifying all technology components and their respective supply chains, involving hardware and software.
Scrutinizing these components enables crucial visibility and swift response to vulnerabilities.
Collaboration between security and development teams is pivotal and should involve security early in the software life cycle to mitigate friction and improve code security.
Adapting supply chain security strategies to meet global cybersecurity regulations necessitates a multifaceted approach, requiring collaboration across executive, development, security, and legal teams, and a tailored strategy based on the organization’s business model.
To ensure that the speed of deployment does not compromise supply chain security, supply chain security should be prioritized early and open-source libraries audited for vulnerabilities.
Maintaining manifests of third-party components enables quick triage of new vulnerabilities.
Warfield also anticipates the implications of AI and machine learning on supply chain security, highlighting their potential impact on the ecosystem at scale, particularly in vulnerability research.
CISOs should prepare for the integration of AI/ML into the development lifecycle and adopt a roadmap for this eventuality.
CISOs need to make their organizations ready for potential advancements in AI/ML in vulnerability discovery and ensure proactive readiness for this transformation.
Link: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/01/25/nate-warfield-eclypsium-cisos-supply-chain-security-strategy/