While a contract, distributed, partner-oriented workforce and supply chain can create serious risks to your organization, careful implementation of visibility and data protection strategies can help you mitigate many of the risks.

If you're not careful, security becomes a hinderance and a target. Where security leaders create inflexible environments, security tends to struggle.

Edna Conway, Cisco’s Chief Security Officer, Global Value Chain, discusses mitigating third-party security risk across an ecosystem that includes tens of thousands of partners located around the globe.

Those of us that spend our lives in security sometimes forget how our field looks and sounds to others.