According research of Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, businesses lose confidence in third-party suppliers. The main reason is the increasing number of security incidents that may be caused by their activity. 
Research has shown that for a large organization, the average cost of such an event may exceed $ 3 million.
Σύμφωνα με την πρόσφατη έρευνα, σχεδόν το ένα τρίτο των επιχειρήσεων στην Ευρώπη (31,5%) δεν εμπιστεύεται τους προμηθευτές λύσεων Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) για την ασφάλεια των δεδομένων. Αυτό ισχύει τόσο για τις μικρές και μεσαίες επιχειρήσεις, όσο και για τους μεγάλους οργανισμούς.
The main reason for this loss of confidence to suppliers is the fact that they were responsible for 15,4% of digital incidents in Europe 2015.
Incidents involving third-party vendors are no less dangerous to businesses than direct digital attacks against their infrastructure. In both cases, the cost of eliminating the impact is extremely high: the cost for digital incidents involving suppliers is an average of $67.000 for small and medium-sized businesses, while for large organizations it is $3,27 million.
«In order to avoid damage and to ensure secure communication with suppliers, a comprehensive and multilevel approach is required. The first thing to do is to delimit the access rights to different areas of the corporate network for different employees. This will help limit a supplier's access to business resources. Companies also need to be sure they know the details of the vendor's security system but also apply specific interaction rules based not only on efficiency and flexibility but also on security, said Konstantin Voronkov, Head of Endpoint Product Management of Kaspersky Lab.
Kaspersky Lab offers security solutions for protection of all parts of the corporate network. For employees' mobile devices and virtual workstations, the company has developed special solutions, such as Kaspersky Security for Mobile and Kaspersky Security for Virtualization.
In addition to technological solutions, the Kaspersky Lab Provides educational services on information security, aimed at workers. These include training programs to minimize the risk of security incidents occurring when working with third parties.
More information about solutions Kaspersky Security for Mobile and Kaspersky Security for Virtualization are available on the Kaspersky Lab website.
