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If you manage third-party cyber risk, you’ve seen it all: meaningless scorecards, black-box tools, and endless frameworks that never quite connect to business impact.Third-Party is the podcast built for the people behind the dashboards.
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The AI Scanner Hype Test (opens the original)
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AI-powered vulnerability scanners can now find tens of thousands of flaws in a matter of weeks. That sounds like a breakthrough until you look at the other number: the patch rate is under one percent. So are these frontier models a genuine game changer, or just the latest round of marketing built on fear, uncertainty, and doubt? In this episode, Jeffrey Wheatman, Bob Maley, and Ferhat Dikbiyik pressure-test the hype around tools like Project Glasswing and the new class of AI scanners. They dig i
Your TPRM Program Isn't Fixable (opens the original)
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Your third-party risk program is probably built on questionnaires, and you already know they don't really work. So the real question is not how to make them better. It's whether you should tear the whole thing down and start over.In this episode, Jeffrey Wheatman, Bob Maley, and Ferhat Dikbiyik get honest about what it takes to rebuild a TPRM program from the ground up. They dig into why the hardest part isn't the tooling, it's breaking the mental model you've been committed to for years. Drawin
You Can't Say No to Your Vendors (opens the original)
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You can't actually say no to a vendor. Ask any room of CISOs how many of them have the power to walk away from a vendor relationship over cyber risk, and the honest answer is almost none. So if leverage is mostly an illusion, what actually moves a vendor to fix their exposure? In this episode, Jeffrey Wheatman, Bob Maley, and Ferhat Dikbiyik dismantle the idea that third-party risk is about power and rebuild it around something more useful: collaboration. They dig into why the questionnaire-led,
Why Manufacturing Supply Chains Are Ransomware’s Favorite Target (opens the original)
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Manufacturing cybersecurity risk is rising faster than most organizations realize—and many teams are still missing the basics. In this episode, we break down manufacturing cybersecurity risk and why this industry has become one of the most targeted sectors for cyber attacks. If your business depends on uptime, supply chains, or physical operations, this conversation will show you where the real risks are hiding. Jeffrey Wheatman, Bob Maley, and Ferhat Dikbiyik explore why manufacturing environme
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