Make cyber resilience the strongest link in your supply chain
Featuring insights from Anand Balasubramanian, Partner - Head of Risk and Compliance Advisory, Grant Thornton UAE
In a featured article for Global Supply Chain, Anand Balasubramanian examines how cyber resilience underpins modern supply chains and why effective, ecosystem-level cyber risk governance is essential.
This article provides insight to the reality of cyber resilience becoming a critical supply‑chain priority, not just an IT concern. It highlights how emerging technologies—particularly artificial intelligence—are accelerating the scale, speed and sophistication of cyberattacks, with the UAE and wider region experiencing a sustained rise in cyber activity shaped by global and geopolitical dynamics.
The article reflects a shift in how cyber risk manifests today: as organisations expand digitally and rely more heavily on interconnected suppliers and third parties, risk no longer sits within organisational walls. Instead, it moves across ecosystems, often exploiting weaker or less visible points in the supply chain. As a result, cyber risk is now a leadership and governance issue, requiring board‑level ownership and visibility.
Overall, this article states that organisations must align governance, controls and incident response across their full partner network, focusing on containment, visibility and coordinated response. Businesses that act now—through stronger collaboration, clearer accountability and investment beyond organisational boundaries—will be better positioned to withstand and recover from inevitable cyber disruption.
This article was first published in Global Supply Chain, 29 April 2026.
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As supply chains become more interconnected, cyber risk increasingly sits beyond organisational boundaries. In this article, Anand Balasubramanian examines why cyber resilience has become a leadership and governance priority, not simply a technology issue.
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Anand Balasubramanian Anand brings over 25 years of consulting experience across the GCC, APAC, and US, with a strong focus on analytics, risk advisory, and ESG. He has built a strong reputation and network in the region over the last 16 years, particularly within the financial services sector, advising central banks, regulators, DFIs, and commercial banks on risk analytics and strategy, climate stress testing, regulatory inspections, and AI-ML driven digital transformation of risk functions.View Profile