Tag: third party liability
Depending on third parties is inescapable. Every organization needs software, hardware, Internet connectivity, power, and buildings. It’s unlikely they’re going to do all those things themselves. That means that organizations must be dependent on others outside themselves. With that dependence comes risk. F5 recently partnered with Ponemon Institute to survey CISOs. In the report, The Evolving…
Read MoreAnything we put online must swim in a sea of enemies. The F5 Labs report, Lessons Learned from a Decade of Data Breaches, revealed that an average breach leaked 35 million records. Nearly 90% of the US population’s social security numbers have been breached to cyber criminals. When confronted by staggering statistics like these, it is…
Read MoreYou’re a chief information security officer (CISO) who’s managing the security requirements for your organization’s value chain. As a former CISO (and current virtual CISO to several companies), I know that’s one of the core functions of our role. How do you know you’re doing a good job? How would you evaluate your performance? The…
Read MoreWhile cloud allows us to offload many responsibilities to third party providers, risk is not one of them. What’s more, is that the rising use of cloud, shared code libraries and other third party resources reduces the visibility and control businesses have over their apps and data – making them even more vulnerable. Businesses today…
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