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Enhance Your Supply Chain Cyber Security 

Improve Supply Chain Cyber Security through the Adoption of Good Practice 

Overview

Most organisations rely upon suppliers to deliver products, systems, and services. Recent incidents have demonstrated that a cyber security breach at your suppliers can be just as damaging to you as one that directly impacts your own organisation.  

Organisations often rely on a range of suppliers to facilitate their services and deliver products and systems. The relationships with suppliers offer further opportunity for cyber security breaches. Cyber security threats have the potential to damage your organisation significantly. The chain reaction of a single cyber security threat can compromise a network of organisations. 

Our Enhance Your Supply Chain Cyber Security course provides you with the latest strategies and tools you need to protect and secure your organisation’s assets. Attend this course to identify current security trends, gain a better understanding of your supply chain and manage the risks to your organisation.  

Utilise the knowledge you will gain to create a winning strategy, understand how to apply it within your organisation and stay a step ahead. Leave the day with a clear action plan to improve your supply chain security.  

Leave the day with a clear action plan to improve your supply chain security. Understand how to apply it successfully  

Learning Outcomes

  • Explore the latest trends in supply chain cyber security including the ways in which attackers have exploited vulnerabilities 

  • Learn how to manage the risks to your organisation from the supply chain 

  • Understand your relationship with suppliers in terms of both requirements and responsibilities  

  • Develop a strategy to achieve effective control and oversight of your supply chain  




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Agenda

9.25 – 9.30 Registration 

9.30 – 10.00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Objectives 

10.00 – 10.45 Supply Chain Challenges 

  • Identify trends in cyber security and the supply chain 

  • Learn from recent incidents and attacks 

10.45 – 11.30 Understand the Risks   

  • Identify your suppliers and assess their security arrangements  

  • Understand the value to your organisation of the products and services supplied  

  • Analyse the risks associated with your supply chain 

11.30 – 11.45 Morning Break 

11.45 – 12.45 Implementation of Supply Chain Cyber Resilience  

  • Ensure security requirements are embedded within the procurement process 

  • Specify security requirements and assessing ensure suppliers compliance with them 

  • Understand what elements of security you are responsible for, and what you are relying on your suppliers to do 

  • Provide support for security incidents 

12.45 – 13.30 Lunch 

13.30 – 14.00 Reflection Session 

  • An opportunity to discuss any questions or concerns arising from the morning session 

14.00 – 15.00 Managing the Supply Chain  

  • Establish appropriate assurance requirements 

  • Ensure suppliers are subject to regular management review 

  • Encourage continuous improvement 

  • Work in partnership with key suppliers 

15.00 – 15.15 Afternoon Break 

15.15 – 16.00 Advising on the Selection of an Application Hosting Supplier 

  • An interactive exercise providing an opportunity to practice the techniques we have discussed during the day. 

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