Security News > 2020 > August > Three places for early warning of ransomware and breaches that aren’t the dark web

There are three additional, sometimes overlooked sources of early warning clues of ransomware and breaches I have seen yield more direct, actionable insights in my years as an incident response leader.

Ransomware attacks are a great example: A company typically calls in incident response once an attacker has detonated their ransomware payload and taken infected machines hostage.

According to recent Deloitte enterprise risk management research, "Information security" and "Cyber risk" topped respondents' lists of issues driving budget for greater third-party oversight.

In addition to serving as a practical early warning outpost, monitoring of third parties yields awareness and influence cybersecurity leaders can use to force wider, strategic conversations in business about risk tolerance and the criticality of these relationships.

In addition to weighing the criticality versus risk aspects of these relationships, those watching the third-party touch points are well positioned to advocate for security terms in partner relationships, such as requiring partners to meet thresholds like multi-factor authentication for accounts touching their customers.

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