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17 March 2026

The Growing Cyber Risk to Supply Chains

Marko Kovacevic and Sasha Pailet Koff

NEW YORK – As the current war in the Middle East intensifies, governments and security experts have warned that the conflict could spill into cyberspace. Businesses and supply chains, particularly those in the United States and its allies, may face retaliatory or asymmetric cyber attacks from Iran or affiliated groups seeking to exert pressure beyond the battlefield. Against this backdrop, the cyber resilience of global supply networks is no longer a theoretical concern but an urgent operational priority.

For decades, supply chains were engineered primarily to minimize cost and maximize speed and scale. Cybersecurity was often treated as an afterthought – a technical safeguard with no bearing on operational decisions. But in today’s AI-enabled, data-driven economy, that is no longer true. Cyber readiness and supply-chain operations are now deeply interconnected.

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