Crowdstrike Outage: Know Your Supply Chain

This briefing underscores the importance of Knowing Your Supply Chain (KYSC) and proactive third‑party incident response, using a CrowdStrike Falcon outage as an example; it advocates using SecurityScorecard’s Automatic Vendor Detection and Software Bill of Materials to map vendor dependencies, prioritize critical suppliers, and reduce nth‑party concentration risk through diversification, tabletop exercises, and continuous monitoring.