CHAPTER 8: INTERACTING WITH PARTNERS AND SUPPLIERS
The world is fully connected and it’s impossible not to interact digitally with partners, suppliers and, often, customers. Yet those partners present a very real threat to your business. How frustrating, if you have undertaken all the necessary risk management, only to see the house of cards knocked over by a clumsy partner with sloppy security.
It’s a problem that’s mushrooming as digital handshakes become the norm. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2008 Cost of a Data Breach report, since 2005 the percentage of incidents where a third party, such as a consultant, was responsible for a data breach has increased from 21% to 44% in 2008. Those mistakes are more expensive too – the per record ...
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