Attacks against the supply chain have been growing in quantity and gravity for several years, culminating in SolarWinds. Most discussion has focused on the software supply chain, but a new study shows that the physical logistics supply chain is equally subject, and susceptible, to cyberattacks.

The Covid-19 pandemic has increased and highlighted the world’s reliance on logistics, which is the physical movement of goods from one location to another. At one level, the safe distribution of Covid-19 vaccines from manufacturing points often in Europe to all around the world is vital to the health of entire populations.