Organizations struggle to operationalize supply chain cybersecurity in an environment where these types of risks are more complex and impactful. The struggles manifest themselves in the following ways:

• Visibility: Who are my suppliers, what is their business impact, and how secure are they?
• Actionability: What do I do when a vendor is high risk or is breached?
• Ownership: Who has the skills and accountability to respond to incidents in the supply chain? 

As a result of these struggles, most of the time it’s the supplier who has the weaker security posture in the relationship. Today we see that pretty much every organization has a supplier who has been breached and that the cost of responding to incidents in the supply chain is rising.

SCDR transforms the way you respond to supply chain incidents. Today, there is a gap at the intersection of 1st and 3rd party risk, where supply chain incident response lives. 

The only way to close that gap is to deploy a dedicated team of supply chain incident responders to focus on resolving third-party risks as an extension of the SOC. 

The supply chain incident response team operates like a threat hunting and active resolution team instead of a bureaucratic and report generating team. It implements a proactive incident response approach that improves supply chain security postures and reduces issues resolution times. SCDR is the technology that powers supply chain incident responders. 

SCDR relies on comprehensive and continuously updated risk intelligence to create the insights needed to drive desired outcomes. Advanced AI and data analytics drive intelligent user experiences to streamline identification and remediation workflows. Incident response capabilities empower suppliers to prioritize and remediate issues. 

There are three critical pillars of a comprehensive supply chain detection and response solution:

• Continuous threat and risk monitoring: Instant and continuous identification of security issues, threat actor behavior, and active incidents that impact an organization and its suppliers.
• Supplier lifecycle management: Manage vendor-related data, track vendor engagement, and consolidate vendor-provided evidence and documentation to help streamline risk reduction and oversight. 
• Supplier collaboration and remediation: Turns supply chain risk insights into action with tools and workflows that enable suppliers to efficiently resolve the specific issues that are identified and prioritized with the highest criticality.