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Cybersecurity Wake-Up Call: Third-Party Breaches Dominate #shorts

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Shocking reality: 66.7% of breach detects come from external parties, not your own security. Why are we relying on outsiders to find hacks? Time to talk about turning this around. #CyberSecurity #ThirdPartyRisk #DataBreach #Infosec #Hacking
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One of the things when we're looking at detections, these are this is a graph from a number of years ago on how organizations detected an attack. All right, anything that has a little red or like square around it is external. Over 67% of the DTEKs in organizations today are from third parties telling you that you've been comp. It could be your own employees that have nothing to do with computer security, but it's 67%. It's actually 66.7% of the DTEKs that we have in the industry are from third parties picking up the phone and telling us that we've been hacked. Not from a magical vendor, not from a single pane of glass, not security orchestration, automation, and

response outside of the organization. And we need to have a conversation as to why that is and how we can turn that around and be better at what we are