Third-Party Risk Statistics

This report outlines the growing scale and cost of third-party and downstream (fourth/nth-party) cyber risk, arguing that questionnaire-based, point-in-time assessments no longer keep pace with today’s interconnected vendor ecosystems. It advocates continuous, intelligence-led monitoring for real-time, external visibility into vendors’ security posture and promotes Recorded Future’s Third-Party Intelligence—covering continuous monitoring, external risk scoring, dark web insights, integrations, and alerting—with reported improvements in visibility, assessment throughput, and faster detection of vendor-related threats.