Let’s face it—there are a lot of third-party security management platforms out there, and finding the right one for your organization is crucial. Yet not all third-party security management platforms are the same; features, benefits and price can vary significantly.   So what should you be looking for when evaluating solutions? Read on for the four most important features to look...

We all rely on third-party vendors to get our work done. Whether it’s our office supplier, cloud host or a project management tool — we are super dependent on others to make our jobs easier. But by doing so, we’re also making our companies more vulnerable. To illustrate that point, did you know that organizations share sensitive data with an...

Panorays Introduces Innovative Smart Questionnaires™ NEW YORK, April 27, 2021 – Panorays, a rapidly growing provider of third-party security risk management, today announced new research about the most common third-party cyber gaps and released a new automated, dynamic vendor security questionnaire functionality that helps resolve cyber gap issues in supply chains.  Using data from Panorays’ external attack surface evaluations of...

You want to work with vendors, but doing so can involve risk. Which vendor cyber gaps are the most common, and how can they be remediated? To answer these questions, Panorays used data from our cyber posture evaluations of tens of thousands of vendors from numerous industries over long periods of time. We extracted the findings that appeared in a...

Financial. Healthcare. Insurance. Government.  Industries like these, well known for dealing with valuable information such as Social Security numbers, medical records and other personal information, are what most would consider likely security breach targets. However, as organizations increasingly depend on technology, data and vendor supply chains to conduct business, there’s no sector that’s immune and no organization that is safe...

Just a mention of those long, arduous and often confusing security questionnaires evokes eye-rolling, stress and frustration from suppliers. And for good reason. While understandable that an organization must do its due diligence before entrusting a vendor with their data, the process of filling out a security questionnaire is fraught with challenges. Here’s why vendors find the process of completing...

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” Peter Drucker, the father of modern business management is famously quoted as saying. While there are many areas in business and in life where this quote can apply, it is especially pertinent to managing vendor cyber risk.  While the world has unprecedented access to data than ever before, it’s turning that data into...

In our January 2021 version release, Panorays introduced a new Cloud category to our third-party cyber posture assessments. The Cloud category, as all of our previous categories, is based on non-intrusive probing (e.g. DNS mining) and external data feeds — allowing organizations to assess their third parties easily and quickly.  Here’s some background about the significance of this category. Why...