Deloitte, which operates a Top 250 MSSP, and BlackBerry are partnering to help companies secure their software supply chains. Target markets include aerospace, automotive and medical ecosystems.
Software supply chain security has become top-of-mind after the SolarWinds Orion and Kaseya VSA cyberattacks -- both of which extended from the software suppliers out to their partners and end-customers. President Biden's executive order on cybersecurity, issued in May 2021, further emphasized the need for supply chain security across federal agencies and their IT service providers.
Amid that backdrop, the Deloitte-BlackBerry relationship leverages BlackBerry Jarvis, a software tool that allows users to identify and remediate software vulnerabilities, and eliminates the need for manual scanning, the software company says.
The relationship surfaces as Deloitte pushes deeper into the cybersecurity market, and BlackBerry extends beyond the Cylance endpoint security software acquisition of 2018.
Deloitte's cyber strategy includes organic growth, partnerships and acquisitions. Among the company's cyber-related acquisitions so far in 2021:
Meanwhile, BlackBerry in September 2021 hired McAfee and AVG Technologies veteran John Giamatteo as president of the company’s Cyber Security business unit. That unit spans such products and technologies as:
Giamatteo previously was president of McAfee, and chief operating officer at AVG Technologies.
