NIS2 Part Two: How Stolen Vendor Data Fuels Downstream Attacks
In part one of this NIS2 series, we examined why vendor questionnaires fall short and how third-party breaches impact downstream organizations across Europe. But what happens after a supplier containment phase ends? The long-term danger lies in how attackers leverage exfiltrated supplier data to launch hyper-targeted social engineering attacks against an organization’s employees. A supply chain incident does not end when a service provider detects, contains, or recovers from an attack.