Canadian cybersecurity 2020

Michael Castro writes the third chapter in the 2020 anthology on Canadian Cybersecurity.

Supply-chain hacks are a vexing reality. There are many examples of organizations being breached through their supply chain, with sophisticated hackers recognizing that these third parties can open backdoors to otherwise robust organizations. An organization’s security team needs to be involved in vendor procurement and management, but at some point, Chief Information Security Officers ended up becoming vendor managers. As Michael Castro explains, there’s a difference between being relevant and engaged in vendor procurement and management and being responsible for it…