Panorays, a provider of third-party security risk management, announced new research about the most common third-party cyber gaps and released a new automated, dynamic vendor security questionnaire functionality that helps resolve cyber gap issues in supply chains.
Using data from Panorays’ external attack surface evaluations of tens of thousands of vendors from various industries, researchers determined the top five cybersecurity issues hidden in supply chains. They were:
- Significant web assets not protected by Web Application Firewalls (WAF) (48% of companies affected)
- Unpatched web server with severe vulnerabilities (40% of companies affected)
- Vulnerable default CMS configuration (34% of companies affected)
- Insufficient security team personnel (31% of companies affected)
- Supporting deprecated SSL protocols (25% of companies affected).
To help resolve supply chain cyber gaps, Panorays now offers new automated, easy-to-use Smart Questionnaires that are typically completed in as little as nine days rather than the industry average of nine weeks, allowing organizations to significantly reduce time spent on the vendor evaluation process. They complement Panorays’…
