Interos.ai: Tackling Cyber Risk in the Supply Chain

Interos.ai has launched a new platform that aims to provide greater transparency in supply chains, with a specific focus on identifying digital vulnerabilities and mitigating cyber risks.

The artificial intelligence-powered solution, named itracing, is designed to help organisations navigate an increasingly complex and threat-prone global landscape by improving supply chain visibility and efficiency.

Interos.ai's approach is centred on building more trustworthy and resilient supply chains.

Through a combination of predictive intelligence using AI and industry knowledge, Interos.ai works to support global supply chains by embedding resilience into their core framework rather than treating it as a reactive measure.

Pinpointing cyber risk in B2B relationships

Interos.ai is focused on modernising supply chain resilience by using its extensive database of B2B relationships.

Interos.ai's automated supplier resilience platform employs AI to map and analyse supply chains, providing businesses with the foresight to manage disruption and maintain stability.

The company monitors more than 200 million suppliers and 11 billion relationships. This monitoring helps businesses to identify and track a range of vulnerabilities including unethical labour practices, regulatory fines and cyber attacks.

The objective is to prevent organisations from establishing partnerships with suppliers that could introduce unacceptable levels of risk into their operations.

The new itracing solution enhances this capability by enabling a more detailed overview, pinpointing specific at-risk goods and components.

Increasing digital supply chain visibility

The itracing platform is a product-level visibility solution that expands on Interos.ai's existing overview of global supply chains. It is designed to offer a 360-degree, centralised view of both physical and digital supply chains.

This could result in greater transparency with suppliers allowing organisations to make informed decisions and navigate global turbulence more effectively.

Yardley Pohl, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Interos.ai, says: “Most organisations still operate with blind spots at the product level; they can see the supplier but not the part or material at risk.”

Yardley suggests that itracing addresses this issue directly.

He says: “itracing closes that gap, connecting supplier events directly to revenue streams. It’s the difference between guessing and knowing, between reacting too late and acting with precision.”

The platform provides actionable, product-level intelligence across complex supply chains. While some tools explore risk at a country or supplier level, itracing can assess risk down to the individual stock-keeping unit (SKU).

This means that instead of a vague threat assessment, the platform could show specifically which products are vulnerable and how much revenue is at risk from a compromised digital component or supplier cyber breach.

Reporting on supply chain threats

A fuller understanding of the risks they face could allow leaders to find solutions at a faster pace.

The itracing platform includes several features focused on risk mitigation that assist supply chain, procurement and compliance leaders to foster resilience.

Key features of the platform include:

• Tracing specific disruptions to understand where products are affected, allowing for proactive measures such as sourcing alternative suppliers or adjusting production
• Connecting supplier events, such as data breaches, to their direct financial impact by quantifying the revenue supported by the disrupted materials
• Generating compliance-ready reports in minutes to provide proof of a product’s supply chain journey, which offers transparency amid tightening regulations
• Creating a singular source of truth by eradicating siloed data and aligning departments with actionable intelligence.

Chris Lee, Chief Revenue Officer at Interos.ai, says: “With regulators, customers and boards all demanding answers faster, the old way of tracing product origins simply doesn’t work.

“itracing delivers that confidence in hours, not weeks, giving organisations the accuracy and defensibility they need to stay compliant and resilient.”

By unifying data from supplier-buyer relationships and product component mapping, itracing allows leaders to gain a holistic understanding for creating informed strategies.

The platform’s future features are set to expand with deeper ecosystem data integrations, ESG insights and intelligent alternative supplier recommendations to help companies build more resilient and responsible supply chains.