Discover how GenAI and Shadow AI are creating new challenges for Third-Party Cyber Risk Management and why continuous monitoring is essential to reducing AI-related risks across your vendor ecosystem.

Picking the right tools, processes, and people to achieve this objective is a challenge in itself, but there is a somewhat hidden yet unavoidable catch: defining what constitutes a "third party"

Verizon's 2025 DBIR shows third parties in 30% of breaches. The hidden cause is a TPCRM skills gap: teams that cannot map the services they assess. The 2026 report confirms this alarming trajectory, showing another 60% increase, with third parties now involved in 48% of all breaches.

The term "inside-out" appears across third-party risk platforms but describes very different technical realities. This post explains what authorized API-based infrastructure monitoring means versus questionnaire correlation.

After attackers wiped tens of thousands of Stryker devices through Microsoft Intune, CISA issued a hardening advisory. Most coverage focuses on internal security. The real question: what if Stryker is your vendor?

This post outlines our findings and, more importantly, the specific security controls that ensured our repositories remained unaffected.