PA Consulting recently joined forces with RKVST to host a Hackathon, looking to identify new and innovative propositions for digital supply chains. Could the teams of PA consultants and analysts identify opportunities to help their clients using RKVST technology? Short answer: YES! Many of today’s business challenges can be addressed with a reliable evidence ledger. If you want the long answer, read on.

Supply chain risk continues to make headlines, from Solarwinds and Kaseya to last week’s announcement of a patch for the OpenSSL vulnerability, and the latest cybersecurity review from the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre highlights the serious threats posed by supply chain attacks.

Last year the Log4J vulnerability perfectly illustrated how properly shared SBOMs would have helped users find and mitigate the “vulnerability of the decade”. And over the last few days we’ve been worried that we’re in the same place with OpenSSL 3.x. Why will this keep on happening? A lot has happened since The White House issued Executive Order 14028.