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Alice in Supply Chains - Episode 5

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Join Alexandre Sieira, CTO and Co-Founder of Tenchi Security, and Adrian Sanabria, Principal Researcher at the Defenders Initiative, as they break down the most important stories from Issue #33 of the Alice in Supply Chains newsletter. In this episode, the duo explore why EU businesses are increasingly turning away from U.S. cloud providers, key takeaways from the UK ICO’s investigation into the 2022 NHS breach, and what the infamous "Hanoi rat massacre" can teach us about modern risk practices. They also dive into JPMorgan's CISO Pat Opet’s open letter, which calls for stronger SaaS security and takes aim at weak integration models in today’s interconnected systems.

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