Home Resources More Than Half of 300 SMB Defense Contractors Showed Critical Vulnerabilities to Ransomware More Than Half of 300 SMB Defense Contractors Showed Critical Vulnerabilities to Ransomware Defense companies face the same opportunistic cyber threats of any business – especially ransomware – but also the additional pressures from persistent, sophisticated foreign actors involved in espionage and the theft of vital intellectual property. To help create a path toward a vibrant, secure Defense Industrial Base, BlueVoyant has partnered with Professor Steven Melnyk and his team at Michigan State University (the No. 1-ranked academic supply chain management program). We analyzed hundreds of defense contractors to identify clear patterns, as well as the steps needed to improve their security posture. The Report’s key findings: 100% large R&D companies displayed network vulnerabilities, with 66% also showing evidence of targeting 28% of SMB defense contractors fall short of basic, tier-1 CMMC requirement Patterns that predict cyber risk in the Defense Industrial Base Expert insight into the marketplace Recommended actions to improve the security posture of the whole Defense Industrial Base Related reading BlueVoyant Corporate BlueVoyant and Bytes Partner to Deliver Managed Third-Party Cyber Risk Management to UK&I Organizations November 23, 2021 This partnership brings BlueVoyant’s advanced, turnkey third-party risk management solution into the Bytes cybersecurity solution portfolio. Read more Malware AnchorDNS Comes Ashore: Evolutions in the TTPs of TrickBot November 12, 2021 Using our knowledge of AnchorDNS-now-Stickseed, BlueVoyant Third-Party Risk and Managed Security Services were able to identify a Stickseed attack in the… Read more Events Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2021 – EMEA November 29, 2021 Join us for our “Operationalizing Third-Party Cyber Risk Management” session at 12:45 p.m. GMT, December 1. Read more Recommended reading Report Managing Cyber Risk Across the Extended Vendor Ecosystem BlueVoyant released “Global Insights – Managing Cyber Risk Across the Extended Vendor Ecosystem,” its second annual global survey into third-party cyber… Learn more
Defense companies face the same opportunistic cyber threats of any business – especially ransomware – but also the additional pressures from persistent, sophisticated foreign actors involved in espionage and the theft of vital intellectual property. To help create a path toward a vibrant, secure Defense Industrial Base, BlueVoyant has partnered with Professor Steven Melnyk and his team at Michigan State University (the No. 1-ranked academic supply chain management program). We analyzed hundreds of defense contractors to identify clear patterns, as well as the steps needed to improve their security posture. The Report’s key findings: 100% large R&D companies displayed network vulnerabilities, with 66% also showing evidence of targeting 28% of SMB defense contractors fall short of basic, tier-1 CMMC requirement Patterns that predict cyber risk in the Defense Industrial Base Expert insight into the marketplace Recommended actions to improve the security posture of the whole Defense Industrial Base Related reading BlueVoyant Corporate BlueVoyant and Bytes Partner to Deliver Managed Third-Party Cyber Risk Management to UK&I Organizations November 23, 2021 This partnership brings BlueVoyant’s advanced, turnkey third-party risk management solution into the Bytes cybersecurity solution portfolio. Read more Malware AnchorDNS Comes Ashore: Evolutions in the TTPs of TrickBot November 12, 2021 Using our knowledge of AnchorDNS-now-Stickseed, BlueVoyant Third-Party Risk and Managed Security Services were able to identify a Stickseed attack in the… Read more Events Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2021 – EMEA November 29, 2021 Join us for our “Operationalizing Third-Party Cyber Risk Management” session at 12:45 p.m. GMT, December 1. Read more Recommended reading Report Managing Cyber Risk Across the Extended Vendor Ecosystem BlueVoyant released “Global Insights – Managing Cyber Risk Across the Extended Vendor Ecosystem,” its second annual global survey into third-party cyber… Learn more
BlueVoyant Corporate BlueVoyant and Bytes Partner to Deliver Managed Third-Party Cyber Risk Management to UK&I Organizations November 23, 2021 This partnership brings BlueVoyant’s advanced, turnkey third-party risk management solution into the Bytes cybersecurity solution portfolio. Read more
Malware AnchorDNS Comes Ashore: Evolutions in the TTPs of TrickBot November 12, 2021 Using our knowledge of AnchorDNS-now-Stickseed, BlueVoyant Third-Party Risk and Managed Security Services were able to identify a Stickseed attack in the… Read more
Events Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2021 – EMEA November 29, 2021 Join us for our “Operationalizing Third-Party Cyber Risk Management” session at 12:45 p.m. GMT, December 1. Read more
Report Managing Cyber Risk Across the Extended Vendor Ecosystem BlueVoyant released “Global Insights – Managing Cyber Risk Across the Extended Vendor Ecosystem,” its second annual global survey into third-party cyber… Learn more
