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Cascading Risk

Cascading risk is the domino effect when a compromise at a fourth or fifth party travels downstream through supply chain relationships to your organization. Supply chain attacks targeting widely used software, such as SolarWinds, MOVEit, and Log4j, are textbook cascading risk events.