While third parties cause or are implicated in 63% of all data breaches, only 2% of IT experts consider third-party secure access a top priority in terms of IT initiatives and budget allocation.

Those key findings were revealed by a survey of more than 200 IT and security C-level executives, directors and managers at enterprise-level companies conducted by the newly formed Soha Third-Party Advisory Group.

The group, created to research third-party access and recommend best practices, consists of security and IT experts from Aberdeen Group, Akamai, Assurant, BrightPoint Security, CKURE Consulting, Hunt Business Intelligence, PwC and Symantec.

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