This month’s cover of SupplyChain Strategy features Schneider Electric’s Cassie Crossley who discusses cybersecurity leadership, securing the product lifecycle supply chain for software, hardware, and firmware, and protecting critical infrastructure.
For a global industrial technology leader like Schneider Electric, which provides energy and digital automation and industrial IoT solutions for customers in homes, buildings, industries, and critical infrastructure, there are few more important considerations. The company serves 16 critical sectors and has a vast digital footprint spanning the globe, presenting a complex and ever-evolving risk landscape and attack surface. As a result, cybersecurity, product security and data protection, and a robust and protected end-to-end supply chain for software, hardware, and firmware are fundamental to its business.
Overcoming supply chain challenges
“For us, supply chain security means taking a holistic approach and considering every aspect from the beginning to the end of the entire product lifecycle,” she explains of her core activities. “That means product lifecycle security – we build and manufacture our own products, but also use third parties components so are responsible for the upstream supply chain as well. It also involves SBOM, source code governance, the security and risk management of the manufacturing process and facilities we use, the security of our products that become part of larger systems, and the ongoing work we do with customers through our field service engineers. Transversely, we also consider vulnerability management, cyber defence, incident response, and the various policy work I carry out with government organisations.”
Elsewhere, Adriano Garibotto, Co-founder and Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Creactives SpA, discusses the generation of enormous benefits for CPOs and supply chain chiefs through a unique brand of AI. Plus, we speak with executives at Manifest Vegas to look ahead to one of the hottest events in the supply chain calendar and uncover why 2025 will be the conference’s biggest meet yet.
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