If your organization is like most, it depends on vendors, suppliers and business partners to help get work done. But when these often-less-secure third parties connect to your systems, you effectively increase your organization’s attack surface, thereby making yourself more vulnerable to cyberattacks. This problem is exacerbated when considering cloud assets: Your third parties may be storing your data on...

You want to work with vendors, but doing so can involve risk. Which vendor cyber gaps are the most common, and how can they be remediated? To answer these questions, Panorays used data from our cyber posture evaluations of tens of thousands of vendors from numerous industries over long periods of time. We extracted the findings that appeared in a...

In our January 2021 version release, Panorays introduced a new Cloud category to our third-party cyber posture assessments. The Cloud category, as all of our previous categories, is based on non-intrusive probing (e.g. DNS mining) and external data feeds — allowing organizations to assess their third parties easily and quickly.  Here’s some background about the significance of this category. Why...

Today, Panorays announced its release of the Cyber Risk Rating, a combined “bottom-line” rating of all of the cyber data available about a supplier on Panorays, including the Cyber Posture Rating, Smart Questionnaire™ Rating and business impact. Unique to Panorays, the Cyber Risk Rating enables security professionals to make quick decisions about their suppliers’ security.  To shed some light on...

The year is not even half over, and third-party data breaches continue to proliferate. In third-party data breaches, sensitive information belonging to an organization is compromised through a vendor, business partner or supplier. Such cyber events can be disastrous for organizations, which can lose customer confidence and loyalty and face hefty regulatory penalties. In fact, according to a recent Gartner...

Your vendors probably have cyber gaps. Which are the most common, and how can they be remedied? To answer these questions, Panorays used data from our cyber posture evaluations of tens of thousands of vendors from numerous industries over long periods of time. We extracted the findings that appeared in a large percentage of the companies and omitted obvious low-risk...

How secure are your third-party suppliers? And what about their suppliers? Panorays is focused on third-party security management – that is, the security posture of suppliers, vendors, partners and others doing business with an organization. But there’s yet another level that all businesses need to be concerned with – the partners and suppliers of their third parties, which are better...

When ranking the weakest link in an organization’s cybersecurity barriers, many tend to think of unpatched servers, exposed services or even shared resources on cloud providers. However, most overlook the number one factor needed for a successful cyberattack: humans. Different attack vectors, such as phishing and stolen credentials, focus on employees as an initial entry point to a company. The...

As the end of the year approaches, we at Panorays wanted to share what we found to be the top five vendor security cyber gaps in 2018. The Fab Five Panorays has the unique ability to evaluate the cyber posture of a large number of third parties from numerous industries over long periods of time. In our evaluation of over...

Your company’s cyber posture may be strong, but that doesn’t mean that you are immune to attackers. As we have seen with recent cyber breaches at British Airways, Ticketmaster and Feedify, hackers typically target companies’ weakest link. Very often that means via a less-secure third party. How can companies improve the cyber posture of their third parties? In honor of...