Supplier or supply chain ecosystem is really important.
Today, because of efficiency, and because companies
are smart, they have all kinds of relationships
with third parties.
It's suppliers, it's vendors, it's products, providers,
there's all kinds of things in this mix,
and the ecosystem comes into the company.
The company will give access to its intellectual property,
to customer data, outsource processing
of customer data, other data, systems, etc.,
and so it creates risks to the company.
It also creates risks to its third parties,
and so it is a shared responsibility of the ecosystem,
with a company managing its own ecosystem
of I'm gonna call them suppliers,
because it's easier for me,
managing the ecosystem of suppliers to determine
how they should be mutually protecting each other
from existing and emerging cybersecurity risks.