In this interview with Help Net Security, Fred Kneip, CEO at CyberGRX, talks about the lack of visibility into third-party risk, how to address this issue, and what companies should consider when choosing the right cloud provider.
The pandemic has forced most organizations to accelerate their digital transformation and migrate to the cloud though third-party cloud providers. How has this impacted the threat landscape?
In the era of digital transformation, which is essentially an organization’s way of stating they are increasing their reliance on cloud-based services—enterprises’, digital landscapes are more interconnected than ever before. This means that the company you buy a technology function from may have downstream third-party providers that enable plumbing, infrastructure and development technology that drive their business.
With modern computing environments moving further away from the enterprise, the safety assumption paradigm is shifting. This has impacted the threat landscape because as organizations increase migration to the cloud (a third party), they must now consider that these newly onboarded third parties may have serious security issues that…
