The Silent Killer: How Third-Party Vendor Risk Threatens Everyone - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

Enterprises are becoming increasingly cognizant of the massive business risk posed by incidents of cyber attacks resulting in data breaches. Less well-known, and perhaps more potent a threat, is the danger posed by third-party vendors entrusted with sensitive data in the course of a business partnership. While an enterprise can have the best and most resilient internal IT practices, there are no such guarantees their external partners will take the same care. The consequences can be enormous. The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team has made it its mission to find data exposures where they exist, aiding in securing them against malicious use and raising public awareness about the issues driving cyber risk today. In this talk, UpGuard CEO Mike Baukes will discuss how third-party vendor risk has proven a potent and pervasive threat in the digital landscape of 2017, as illustrated by a newly discovered third-party vendor data exposure case involving the leaking of sensitive data from major transnational corporations. Learn how you can mitigate such third-party vendor risk and begin to evaluate and enforce your business partners’ cyber resilience against such threats.