Is Your Supply Chain Ready For A Cyberattack?
Odds are that your supply chain will be impacted by a cyberattack in the future. Are you ready?
What is the biggest risk facing logistics operations today?
You can probably come up with a long list — everything from carrier bankruptcies to ports shutting down due to labor issues or geopolitical conflicts — but high up on the list, if not topping it, is cyberattacks.
“Cyberattacks on logistics have skyrocketed in recent years,” according to the 2026 Annual Supply Chain Risk Report published by Everstream Analytics. “In 2021, Everstream Analytics reported 20 incidents. Between then and 2025, there has been a 965% increase in attacks targeting logistics.”
The report adds that 2025 emerged “as a watershed moment for cyberattacks on logistics. Attacks on logistics, including carriers, 3PLs and other providers, increased from 132 to 213 incidents in 2025 — a 61% surge.”
What makes this risk particularly challenging is that…
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That 965% increase is staggering but makes sense given how digitally interconnected logistics networks have become. Third-party vulnerabilities are the real headache here since most companies can't control their carriers' or 3PLs' security postures. I saw a mid-sized shipper get hit last year not through their own systems but via a small regional carrier they occasionally used. The cascading effects took weeks to untangle, way longer than anyone anticipated.