English Bus/Financial Computers: Systems, Networks The future of procurement

HELP! Can someone QUICKLY explain this to me? The monster is marked. It is part of a future scenario:

As a result of digital transformation and the growing proliferation of e-procurement, the risk of supply chain disruption is also rapidly growing. Therefore, it doesn’t really help if a company succeeds in keeping its security standards up to date, since the Internet of Things and increasing machine-to-machine (M2M) information exchange are not only popular for their productivity driving properties, they are also developing into the perfect gateway for cyber criminals. Current studies show massive economic damage provoked by data security incidents. For large companies, such an incident causes damages averaging at 720,000 USD. When it comes to extensive supply chain networks and major supplier bases, cyber criminals obviously don’t aim for the strongest, most highly secured link in the chain, but for the weakest. Reports of cyber-attacks on third-party suppliers, to obtain, for example, confidential customer information, are on the rise. ### In this age of digital transformation, viable security leak prevention demands that integrated supply chains make an even greater effort to integrate digital information into an integrated assessment of the value chain’s protective architecture. ### Especially when companies increasingly follow the quantified enterprise trend, aiming to maximize data management for organizational knowledge production.