Supply Chain Resilience and Physical Security: Lessons for 2025

An overview of 2024–2025 supply chain risk trends highlights the expanding attack surface across software, services, and physical operations, referencing incidents such as the CrowdStrike update outage, CDK dealership disruption, Snowflake data exposure, and Ivanti-linked compromises to illustrate cascading dependencies; the piece recommends SBOM-driven visibility, third‑party risk management, least‑privilege access, segmentation, SLAs with audits, and AI‑powered threat intelligence (including physical threat monitoring) to reduce exposure, while noting that geopolitical shifts and adversarial use of AI will heighten supply chain volatility in 2025.