BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

On a Friday morning in October 2016, millions of people across North America attempted to visit popular websites including Spotify, Reddit, and the New York Times, only to find that they were inaccessible.

When using dozens, hundreds, even thousands of vendors, how safe is a company’s digital assets? According to a recent Ponemon Institute study, almost half of respondents (49%) said that they had experienced a data breach caused by a vendor...

Onboarding third-party vendors that will have access to your network and data can have dire consequences if you don’t have the ability to gauge vendor risk.

Ponemon Institute’s study, Data Risk in the Third-Party Ecosystem, highlights the challenges that companies face in protecting sensitive and confidential information shared with third parties.

• Of the respondents surveyed, 37 percent do...