Partner Misuse

1. Doing business today requires trusted relationships with business partners and vendors. Partners can manage critical devices, store or aggregate sensitive data, and/or be provided with remote access into corporate networks. Just as employees may have malicious intentions, vendors and business partners may also leverage legitimate logical or physical access for unsanctioned access to data. Because of this, we consider partner misuse as a lethal data breach scenario. Source: (Verizon, 2016) 2. Partner misuse involves semi-trusted entities who have some level of enterprise environment access and, either through purposeful maliciousness or inadvertent ineptitude, lead to a breach of that environment. Source: (Verizon, 2017)

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