Cyentia Institute and SecurityScorecard Research Report: Close Encounters of the Third (and Fourth) Party Kind
SecurityScorecard and the Cyentia Institute teamed up to analyze data from SecurityScorecard’s Automatic Vendor Detection on over 230,000 organizations for clues about the underlying conditions that exacerbate third and fourth-party risk.
Download the full report to discover further insights on the relationships between your third and fourth parties, the industries that have the most connections, and how you can mitigate potential risk to your organization from your third and fourth parties.
Improving the Cyber Defenses of Your Weakest Links
98.3% of organizations have a relationship with at least one third party that has experienced a breach in the last two years. What’s more, 50% of organizations have indirect relationships with at least 200 fourth parties that have had breaches in the last two years. As these findings demonstrate, your company’s security posture is only as strong as your weakest third-party.
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