third-party-risk
Safeguard articles tagged "third-party-risk" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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Third-party risk assessment for insurtech SaaS platforms
A practical playbook for running an insurtech third-party risk assessment across vendors, APIs, and integrations before they touch policyholder data.
Third-party risk management for retail supply chain and l...
A practical, step-by-step framework for assessing and monitoring retail logistics software vendor risk, from SaaS onboarding to inventory system offboarding.
Third-party risk management for OT/ICS vendors in utilities
A step-by-step guide to OT ICS vendor risk management for utilities: assessing, auditing, and monitoring SCADA and industrial control system vendors.
Medtronic and AdaptHealth: The Third Party Was the Vulnerability
3.8 million people notified by Medtronic. PII, PHI and insurance billing credentials exfiltrated at AdaptHealth after social engineering against a third-party contractor. Neither breach needed a software vulnerability — both needed a trusted outsider with a session.
Polymarket Lost ~$3M Without a Single Smart Contract Bug
On 25–26 June 2026 attackers compromised a third-party vendor and injected malicious code into Polymarket's website frontend, manipulating users into approving fraudulent transactions. Roughly $3M in crypto drained. The smart contracts were never touched. Your client-side dependency tree is production.
Polyfill.io supply chain attack
How a domain sale turned a trusted CDN into a malware vector for 100,000+ sites — and what the polyfill.io incident teaches defenders about third-party script risk.
Unsafe Consumption of Third-Party APIs
Third-party APIs get trusted more than user input ever would — and attackers know it. Real breaches from Polyfill.io to 3CX show why that trust is misplaced.
Best software supply chain risk scoring and rating platforms
A practical, no-hype guide to choosing software supply chain risk scoring platforms — evaluation criteria plus a fair roundup of six real vendors, strengths and limitations included.
Western Sydney University 2025 Breach: Third-Party Cloud Misconfiguration
From June to September 2025 an attacker quietly accessed a third-party cloud system linked to Western Sydney University and exfiltrated data on 10,000 students. We unpack the supply-chain anatomy.
A Step-by-Step Methodology for Mapping and Prioritizing Attack Surface
CVE-2023-34362 sat in one internet-facing file-transfer server and still produced thousands of downstream breaches — attack surface mapping is what catches that server before Cl0p does.
When the Security Tool Is the Backdoor
CCleaner, tj-actions, and ua-parser-js show the same pattern: trusted tools with CI access became the attack, hitting 2.27M+ users and 23,000+ repos.
Polyfill.io supply chain domain takeover
How a routine domain sale turned polyfill.io into malware served to 100,000+ sites, and how to catch supply chain takeovers before they ship.
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