Cybersecurity and Third-Party Risk

[b]Move beyond the checklist and fully protect yourself from third-party cybersecurity risk [/b] Over the last nearly ten years there have been hundreds of big-name organizations in every sector subjected to a public breach due to a vendor. The recognizable breaches started with Target in 2013 and escalating to Equifax in 2017. Then came 2020, a near 800% increase in cyberattack activity, millions more workers now working remotely, and the number of incidents with third-party breaches and incidents skyrocketed as well. In December 2020, the tipping point came with the news of the SolarWinds supply-chain attack. A sophisticated hacker using a technique known as an Advanced…