The top 5 cyber security challenges for logistics companies - Flipbook - Page 4
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Lack of visibility of networks, devices and vulnerabilities
How do you solve the visibility issue and find out where your
most critical vulnerabilities reside? One option is to use a
You can’t protect what you can’t see. While visibility and clarity are not issues that affect the logistics industry exclusively, there
managed vulnerability service that monitors your whole
are a number of factors that make technology environments in these types of companies especially difficult to achieve visibility
corporate environment. The service should include scanning
of in their entirety.
and monitoring of all devices connected to your internal and
external networks, in addition to web-facing applications and
In addition to the usual business critical systems, core infrastructure and operational technology, logistics organisations are
services. Scans must be conducted on a regular basis – for
increasingly relying on essential and advanced technologies such as supply chain visibility (SCV), connected IoT devices and
example weekly for internal and external networks and web
Artificial Intelligence (AI). All of which makes for a heterogenous technology environment which in many cases features legacy
technology, newer Cloud-based applications and bespoke industry systems.
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applications, and every few hours for endpoints. Any
vulnerabilities should then be evaluated and scored so that
you can assess how critical remediation is.
Logistics companies are often also geographically dispersed, with a proliferation of networks and systems across multiple sites.
Which means that data and devices are also spread across multiple sites, often with no way of effectively tracking their location
In some cases the number of vulnerabilities can run into
and usage. Without knowing how many devices are in use, which systems and applications are installed and who is using them,
tens of thousands, which is why most companies also chose
it is next to impossible to know how susceptible they are to an attack due to technical vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and
a managed vulnerability patch management service to both
potentially rogue applications. If your employees are using their devices for both work and personal use, the likelihood of a
identify and deploy the necessary patches onto servers,
breach increases significantly.
laptops and desktops remotely.