Supply chain attacks are now a top cyber threat—SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline showed how one weak link can cascade across entire sectors.

In my latest article, I examine how AI, 5G, IoT, and quantum computing are expanding both risks and defenses, and share practical steps: zero trust, SBOMs, supplier audits, public-private collaboration, and board-level ownership.

Cyber supply chain security is no longer optional—it’s essential for resilience, innovation, and national security.

Read the full piece: The Cybersecurity Challenges of the Supply Chain https://www.govconwire.com/articles/chuck-brooks-govcon-expe…hain-risks.

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By Chuck Brooks, president of Brooks Consulting International and one of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Experts

In the current digital environment, supply chains are essential to national security, vital infrastructure and international trade. They have, however, also emerged as one of the most often used attack methods in cybersecurity. Cybercriminals using ransomware to attack third-party vendors or nation-state actors inserting backdoors in software updates are just two examples of how supply chain breaches may quickly spread throughout entire economies, governments and industries.

High-profile events such as the Colonial Pipeline attack and the SolarWinds leak have severely exposed the vulnerabilities. Supply chain cyberattacks are carried out by nation-state adversaries, espionage operators, criminals, or hacktivists to compromise contractors, systems, businesses and suppliers through the weakest links. These assaults frequently succeed by taking advantage of suppliers’ lax security procedures, utilizing insider threats, or installing tampered or fake hardware and software.