Editorial illustration depicting vendor supply chain security realities and blind trust risks
finance team gating process

Sad reality

hope you have a gating process in your finance team which halts the ability to pay vendors without security approval...

Key takeaways
  • Trusting third-party vendors without verification is outsourcing your breach.
  • Vendor security questionnaires evaluate optimism, not infrastructure reality.
  • Your security perimeter is only as resilient as your least disciplined supplier.

Vendors graphic

I hope you have a gating process in your finance team which halts the ability to pay vendors without security approval. Otherwise, you will end up with 3rd party cloud vendors who have a risky portion of your intellectual property without you noticing. Much akin to cloud cat….