Third-Party Risk Is an Intelligence Operation. It's Time We Treated It Like One.

<p>For years, the cybersecurity industry has treated third-party risk management as a compliance exercise. Assess your vendors. Assign a score. File the report. Move on. That model was built for a different era. One where supply chains were smaller, threat actors were less sophisticated, and a quarterly questionnaire could reasonably approximate a vendor's security posture. That era is over.</p>