The rise in supply chain attacks has highlighted a significant issue in supply chain risk management (SCRM) - most organizations are unaware of the potential risks in their supply chain. This limitation is caused by a discontinuity between cybersecurity initiatives and the threat landscape of global supply chains. Supply chain ecosystems are unpredictable, dynamic, and always evolving.

Cloud Infrastructure Entitlements Management (CIEM) is a cloud security solution used to manage identities and cloud permissions through the principle of least privilege (POLP). CIEM uses machine learning and analytics to detect anomalies in account permissions within multi-cloud environments.

A reverse proxy server (or reverse proxy) facilitates a user’s requests to a web server/application server and the server’s response. A load balancer receives user requests, distributes them accordingly among a group of servers, then forwards each server response to its respective user. From the brief definitions above, it’s clear that reverse proxies and load balancers have some overlapping functionalities.