Do you regularly assess the security posture of your software providers? It’s not a question most people are used to answering. For IT leaders, however, it’s an increasingly familiar concern – particularly within critical public sectors like healthcare, education and government.
While most public sector IT leaders feel confident about their software security posture, our research revealed that 51% of them uncovered hidden participants in their software supply chains last year. Even more troubling, over half of decision-makers across healthcare, education and government organizations reported receiving notifications of an attack or vulnerability within the past twelve months. Of those affected, 42% of organizations took over a week – or longer – to recover.
