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Foreword

In 2026, supply chain cyber security remains a persistent challenge. Incident rates are high and threat actors are increasingly sophisticated, yet risk management remains stuck in an outdated cycle of isolated, bilateral assessments. The findings of our new survey demonstrate that significant operational gaps remain: most organisations still require weeks to onboard a supplier and are unable to map breach exposure within 24 hours. These structural shortcomings occur in a worsening environment shaped by state-sponsored sabotage and the concentration risks introduced by the rapid adoption of AI across the supply chain.

Over the past few years, Risk Ledger has consistently argued that traditional third-party risk management is no longer enough. We have actively pioneered a network-first approach to provide deep-tier visibility and unmask concentration risks at firm and sectoral level at a time when there was still little appreciation in the wider market of how these shared dependencies cluster. We are pleased to see that this realisation is now widely shared on the global stage, as evidenced by the World Economic Forum dedicating a critical part of its latest Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 to the systemic threats of supply chain interdependencies and concentration risk. What has long been championed as an advanced defensive model by Risk Ledger is now increasingly recognised as the definitive framework required for modern operational resilience.

Digital supply chains are shared infrastructure. Resolving our current vulnerabilities requires a structural evolution rather than simply executing more traditional TPRM. We must implement standardised assessment frameworks to eliminate duplicated effort, transition from periodic to continuous monitoring, and map the shared dependencies that create systemic vulnerability. The true solution lies in collaborative visibility, evolving TPRM from a siloed risk management exercise into an active cyber defence discipline through Active Supply Chain Security (ASCS).

We can only secure these complex networks by looking at them together.

Together, we can Defend-as-One.

Haydn Brooks

CEO & Co-Founder, Risk Ledger