🇿🇦 English, 15 October 2026, third-party risk
Third-party suppliers have become the new enterprise vulnerability
Companies are increasingly relying on third-party service providers, but are often neglecting to ensure they have implemented rigorous security controls.
The 2025 SecurityScorecard Global Third-Party Breach Report found that 35.5% of all data breaches originated from third-party compromises, an increase of 6.5% from the previous year.
Companies have become increasingly reliant on third-party service providers and solutions to do business, and in the process have accidentally left the company doors wide open.
The entry points used by the attackers are also stunningly simple, often exploiting trusted relationships between companies and their third-party suppliers.