Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone

© Neil Daswani and Moudy Elbayadi 2021

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13. Technology Defenses to Fight the Root Causes of Breach: Part Two

Neil Daswani¹   and Moudy Elbayadi²

(1)

Pleasanton, CA, USA

(2)

Carlsbad, CA, USA

 

In this chapter, we continue our discussion of technology defenses and cover fighting third-party risk, software vulnerabilities, unencrypted data, and inadvertent employee mistakes.

Mitigating Third-Party Risk

As we have seen in the first part of this book, many data breaches start with compromises at third parties. Virtually no organization can operate as an island, and virtually every organization relies on a number of third parties—sometimes a few, sometimes a dozen, sometimes hundreds, ...