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Dramatic Increase in the Number of Third-Party Vendor Incidents Emphasizes the Need for Better Vendor Due Diligence Processes

By Sara Goldstein and David Kitchen on June 3, 2021 Posted in Third-Party Vendor Incidents

As reflected in our 2021 Data Security Incident Response Report 2020 saw a sharp spike in the number of incidents involving vendors, which amounted to over 25 percent of the total incidents handled in 2020, and the trend is continuing well into 2021. This spike resulted from companies’ increased reliance on vendors to carry out … Continue Reading