As cybercrime rises, businesses need to erect defenses against attacks in all their operations. Supply chains are particularly vulnerable, with cyberattacks against them increasing 42% in Q1 2021, affecting 7 million people’s data. Supply chains make ideal targets for cybercriminals since they hold sensitive data, often have large attack surfaces and are mostly unprotected. As such, they should be a focus for businesses’ cybersecurity efforts.

Modern-day product development is highly complex. This is because industry competition has driven enterprises to focus mainly on their core competencies while they outsource other activities to their partner organizations specialized in such activities. Therefore, in today’s diversified global economy we find that almost all enterprises operate with their operations dispersed across internal productions and external partners.

Dassault Systemes, SolidWorks is the most widely used solid modeling Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software that runs on Microsoft windows. Any industry that uses drawings, illustrations, designs, specifications, blueprints, prototypes, creatives, and models held in CAD is highly valued. In these industries, the exchange of information is both a necessity as well as a business risk.