A summer of breaches

Uber Freight found unauthorized access to part of its systems in mid-August. Days earlier Ceva Logistics leaked customer data, and before that ransomware forced Coca-Cola's Fairlife to pause US operations.

Smart warehouses, wider doors

Trackers on forklifts, facility cameras, temperature sensors, GPS and tablets all make plants competitive. They are also entry points, says Source Logistics CTO Bart Bullard.

“as we do more and more intelligent things with these computers”

247 days in the dark

Companies shut systems down until they find the source, which IBM puts at 247 days on average. In a supply chain, that delay ripples out: production stalls and perishable product expires.

Six weeks that killed suppliers

Jaguar Land Rover's attack last fall halted production for six weeks. Suppliers lost work and some small firms went under, says NCC Group's Liz James.

Poisoned code spreads fast

Attackers hack one piece of software and every business running it inherits the malware. A March 2026 attack on the open-source tool LiteLLM exposed cloud keys and terabytes of data at 2,500-plus organizations.

AI patrols the code

Defenders point AI at their own software to spot hidden flaws and flag anything deviating from normal patterns, then patch before anyone exploits it. Training matters too, from the C-suite to the shop floor.

“Everyone in an enterprise must become AI-security forward thinkers”

The phishing tells are gone

Odd grammar and misspellings no longer give scams away, and deepfake video and voice calls keep improving. Hackers mine code for holes faster than any human can.

“Fighting AI with AI is the only real avenue”