Is Cyber Facing an Affordability Crisis?
With breach costs at record levels and global security spending nearing $240 bn, SME under-investment is becoming the soft underbelly of enterprise supply chains—a growing concern under NIS2.
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As breach costs reach record highs and defense spending nears $240 billion, small businesses are dangerously exposed, threatening supply chain security.
Editorial Analysis
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Under NIS2's supply-chain provisions, enterprises must ensure that smaller suppliers meet baseline security standards—an affordability gap upstream becomes a compliance risk downstream.
Include supplier cyber-maturity assessments in NIS2 due-diligence processes and document residual risks from under-resourced vendors.
Small-business cyber under-investment is a systemic supply-chain risk that NIS2 will increasingly hold large enterprises accountable for.
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