supply chain risk

"Supply chains for local councils will always be the weakest link to be exploited by attackers looking for valuable information due to the vast number of services employed for operations."

IT managers say their orgs are better prepared - infosec pros are less confident...

"No-one has the time or sanity to audit every thing every build process pulls in."

Material from a horrific data breach earlier this year at a UK company holding the details of thousands of IT contractors revealed that staff were routinely storing credentials in clearly flagged Word or Excel documents -- titled, among other examples, “useful links and passwords”, “passwords”, and “useful passwords”. The Stack&