Security does not end at the corporate perimeter. After vendors served as entry points in recent high-profile breaches, security vulnerabilities associated with partners have received increased attention.
Cloud services are rapidly becoming the primary connectors between businesses, with the average company connecting with 1,555 partners.
Skyhigh Networks measured partner risk based on several security attributes and found that 8% of all partners are high-risk and that 30% of total data shared with partners is shared with high-risk partners.
