How to Protect Your Supply Chain From Cyber Crime

The risk of cyber crime hitting your supply chain is greater than ever before. The possibilities extend well beyond old-fashion website hacking. Global supply chains today are vulnerable to any number of scams that originate in cyberspace, says Peregrine Storrs-Fox. He is risk management director with Through Transportation Mutual Services (UK) Ltd., known more familiarly as the TT Club, an international provider of transportation and logistics insurance. Storrs-Fox lays out the many ways in which criminals can attack your business, grab sensitive information and even hold your shipments hostage. The message: be diligent. ''I don't think that anyone can think for a moment they're not exposed,'' says Storrs-Fox.