#Ransomware attacks have continued to dominate headlines, and they’re constantly becoming more sophisticated. Cybercriminals are doing supply chain attacks to tamper with the manufacturing processes of a company either by hardware or software. Malware could be installed in any stage of the supply chain.

#Cloudcomputing in itself has seen multiple vulnerabilities in recent times – and as organizations continue to adopt the cloud, with 35% running more than 50% of their workloads on the likes of Azure, AWS and GCP, they struggle to manage the complexity of securing their cloud infrastructures across multiple cloud platforms, while also suffering a cyber-skills and knowledge shortage.

The industry has seen an increasing number of cyber-attacks that leverage weak supply chain methodologies. Currently, the most prominent supply chain risk that organizations are exposed to comes from open-source software. The open-source community provides many modules and packages that are regularly adopted by businesses across the world, including those within your supply chain.

The problem with open-source, however, is that it is inherently insecure. That is in part because it is written by individuals who may lack the expertise or budget to make them completely safe. The other issue with open-source code comes down to ownership. With this, cybercriminals have begun to exploit critical vulnerabilities in cloud providers to gain access to corporate environments.

So far, in 2022, we have seen a seismic shift in the cloud threat landscape as more and more threat actors target critical vulnerabilities in both cloud providers and supply chains.

Unfortunately, when it comes to your cloud provider, no matter who you choose, their platform will have vulnerabilities. You could conduct all the research in the world and call on the know-how of the industry's best experts, but you cannot control the security of your chosen provider's platform..