How to Mitigate Supply Chain Attacks

This document explains how supply chain attacks exploit trusted third parties and why traditional, periodic vendor risk assessments leave dangerous gaps, using SolarWinds and the MOVEit breach as examples of cascading impact. It advocates for intelligence-led, continuous monitoring to deliver early warnings, contextual prioritization, and proactive defense, outlines best practices for mapping and prioritizing vendors, integrating external intelligence, and cross-team collaboration, and presents Recorded Future’s capabilities for real-time visibility, transparent risk scoring, AI-driven insights, and workflow integration to strengthen supply chain security.