Ever since September 11, the world has not felt secure. Governments have been looking for solutions to various challenges and brainstorming on where the next attack may originate from. The supply chain is one of the most vulnerable areas that attackers may gain entry to the US infrastructure. Consequently, the US Congress has been on the forefront seeking ways of protecting the supply chain from exploitation by hackers, state and non-state actors. Due to the advancement of technology, a slight mistake can be exploited by adversaries who might take advantage of it to cripple the country’s critical systems.

Amazon has all but cornered the e-commerce market and now it hopes to do the same with B2B. Amazon introduced Amazon Business quietly back in 2015. Since then, they have slowly ramped up their business in the B2B sect with Business Prime. Business Prime is comparable to the popular Amazon Prime in the sense that organizations will have the ability to receive free delivery and purchase a plethora of products. That is where the similarities end.

Every organization that wants to organize and manage their supply chain metrics must deploy some key performance measurement systems; this is because the average metrics needed for managing and measuring the success of an organization’s supply chain system varies by industry, company, and scale of business. 

With the General Data Protection Regulation nearly a year old, the thought of compliance seems like a distant memory. However, in your company’s rush for compliance, the ramifications of unsuspected cloud security vulnerabilities might have gotten missed. Could your neck be on the chopping block if, during an inspection it got discovered, your company’s cloud security is weak and not GDPR compliant?