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45%

of breaches involve third parties

Third-Party Breaches
The Hidden Risk

Your security is only as strong as your weakest vendor. One compromised supplier can cascade across thousands of organizations, including yours.

45%

Breaches involving third parties

+78%

Increase in supply chain attacks (2023)

5,000+

Average vendors per enterprise

89%

Vendors with access to sensitive data

Attack Surface

Your vendors are your vulnerability

Cloud Providers

Shared infrastructure

When AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud has an incident, thousands of businesses are affected simultaneously. Your security is only as strong as your provider's.

Example: Microsoft Exchange Online breach exposed US government emails (2023)

Software Vendors

Trusted access

SaaS tools and enterprise software have deep access to your systems. A compromised vendor update can spread malware across all customers.

Example: SolarWinds attack affected 18,000+ organisations including Fortune 500

Service Providers

Data handling

Outsourced IT, payroll, and business services handle sensitive data. Their breach becomes your breach.

Example: Capita breach exposed data from hundreds of UK councils and NHS trusts

APIs & Integrations

Connection points

Every integration is a potential entry point. Attackers increasingly target the connections between systems rather than systems themselves.

Example: CircleCI breach compromised customer secrets and environment variables

The Cascade Effect

One breach, thousands of victims

Supply chain attacks are devastating because they multiply impact exponentially.

MOVEit / Progress Software

2023
2,600+ organisations

BBC, British Airways, Boots, Shell, and US government agencies were all affected by one file transfer tool vulnerability

SolarWinds

2020
18,000+ organisations

US Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security, Microsoft, and Intel were compromised through malware embedded in trusted software updates

Kaseya VSA

2021
1,500+ businesses

REvil ransomware spread through IT management software to MSP customers worldwide

Okta

2022
366 customers

Identity provider breach gave attackers potential access to authentication for hundreds of enterprises

You can't control your vendors.
Control your data instead.

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