Organizations use an average of 250-500 third-party vendors. Third-party activity isnt regularly monitored while in the network, which means theres no way to hold vendor reps accountable for their actions. The risk and the threat is real. Here are five reasons why third parties are your organization’s biggest risk point. Theyre hard to control. They don’t play by the rules. Without controls that are modeled after the Zero Trust principle, third parties will go unchecked on all accounts.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/third-parties-are-organizations-biggest-risk-point-p-3214