Supply chain breaches impacting UK Local Authorities have risen 388% in three years.
Facing legacy IT and resource constraints, a pioneering group of 20 councils teamed up with Risk Ledger to test a new "Defend-as-One" strategy. By pooling intelligence and connecting to 800 3rd party suppliers on the Risk Ledger platform, they uncovered what individual risk assessments can't:
→ 1,048 hidden dependencies across 4th, 5th and nth parties.
→ 84 critical concentration risks.
→ 1 single point of failure connected to every single participant.
→ 25% of their shared suppliers are not Cyber Essentials certified.
Learn how collaboration significantly reduced unnecessary duplication of work and fixed the public sector supply chain security gap, and how these UK Councils turned an urgent risk factor into a collaborative success story.
This is the new scalable model for bolstering public sector security that policymakers have been waiting for.
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Get a data-backed understanding of the supply chain cyber risk landscape facing UK local authorities.
Discover why legacy third-party risk management (TPRM) frameworks are no longer sufficient to address the scale and complexity of modern threats.
Learn how enhanced collaboration and information sharing can uncover systemic risks that are invisible to single organisations.
🔍 The Scale of the Crisis
Why fragmented TPRM failed, and how metropolitan councils reported over 12,700 data breaches in just three years—a staggering 388% increase.
🔍 Collective Intelligence in Action
How, within six months, collaborating councils uncovered 1,048 additional dependencies across 4th, 5th, and even 8th-party suppliers , and identified 84 potential concentration risks.
🔍 Critical Points of Failure
The discovery of one singular supplier connected to all participating councils, representing a critical potential single point of failure for the entire community.
🔍 Fundamental Security Gaps
Data revealing that a striking 1 in 4 suppliers serving councils do not possess Cyber Essentials certification, and 41% of suppliers fail to regularly test or rehearse their Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans.
🔍 The Blueprint for the Future
How this unique partnership with Risk Ledger is establishing a new, forward-looking security standard for the public sector by enabling proactive, coordinated cyber defence.
Don't operate with blind spots. Learn how collective defence is the essential new security standard for resilient public services.
