In today's business landscape, organizations have come to rely on third parties (e.g., vendors, suppliers, service providers, outsourcers, agents, distributors, etc.) in supporting various business operations more significantly, in order to achieve business and information technology objectives, including gaining a competitive advantage.

Fifty per cent of chief information security officers (CISOs) will adopt the human-centric design to reduce cybersecurity operational friction; large enterprises will focus on implementing zero-trust programs; and half of the cybersecurity leaders will have unsuccessfully tried to use cyber risk quantification to drive decision-making, according to the top cybersecurity predictions revealed by Gartner, Inc.