Tag: zero trust supply chain

News and information from the Advent IM team.

Third-Party Risk: When Ransomware Walks in Through the Side Door

The Collins Aerospace incident is another reminder that third-party risk is no longer an abstract concept; it is one of the most common ways attackers get inside. In this case, the compromise wasn’t a direct assault on an enterprise perimeter but a ransomware attack that entered via the supply chain. Not only was data disrupted, […]

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Third-party breaches and the data-centre supply chain: where liability really lives

It’s not the bullet you hear that gets you—it’s the ricochet from someone else’s range. The last two years turned “indirect breach” into the main show: MOVEit’s zero-day turned a file-transfer utility into an exfiltration engine; Snowflake-linked compromises hinged on reused credentials and weak contractor security; Okta’s support-portal compromise became a lesson in token hygiene […]

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