How UK Councils Have Come Together to Secure Public Sector Supply Chains
Learn How UK Councils Pioneered a New Standard for Supply Chain Security, MOVING FROM SILOED TPRM TO COLLECTIVE DEFENCE.
The digital age has turned the vast supply chains of UK local authorities—custodians of vast amounts of sensitive citizen data and indispensable providers of essential public services—into prime targets for cyber adversaries. One study found that 86% of UK Councils experienced at least one supply chain cyber incident in the past year alone.
Compounded by limited budgets and skills shortages , traditional, siloed Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) methods are now woefully inadequate. They have resulted in costly duplication and left systemic, sector-wide vulnerabilities dangerously exposed.
A Groundbreaking Shift: Defending-as-One
Recognising that their collective vulnerability was also their greatest strength , a pioneering group of UK councils decided to move beyond isolation. They fundamentally transformed their defence posture by pivoting to a collaborative model"Defend-as-One", transforming individual limitations into a powerful, collective shield, and gaining unprecedented, real-time visibility into their extended supply chain ecosystems.
This is the scalable, effective new model for bolstering public sector ssecurity that policymakers have been waiting for.
Download this Special Report to learn more.
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.
What you will learn:
🔍 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 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.
