The Cyentia Institute started the “Ripples Across the Risk Surface” series with RiskRecon by Mastercard way back in 2019. The series analyzes #cybersecurity incidents that spill over to affect multiple organizations via #thirdparty and #supplychain connections (aka “ripple events”). Most security professionals are well aware that these ripple events are common occurrences and a side…
“You know when you make a copy of a copy, it’s not as sharp as the original.” – Doug Kinney (Michael Keaton), Multiplicity Cyentia recently released our second report in collaboration with SecurityScorecard titled “Close Encounters of the Third (and Fourth) Party Kind.” Yeah, yeah – I know that’s an obvious tee-up for a quote…
One of my first tasks as a cybersecurity researcher was analyzing results from surveys TruSecure (later Cybertrust then Verizon) conducted in the aftermath of major internet worm events of the early 2000s. While the focus wasn’t on third-party risk or supply chain risk, those themes became very apparent to me from examining the open-ended “comments”…