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The truth is, when it comes to security, it’s no longer enough to just secure your company’s own perimeter.
You need to look beyond your IT infrastructure and examine the dozens or even hundreds of applications you rely on for work productivity. While helping to improve work efficiency, using third-party vendors comes with security risks that companies often overlook. Nobody thinks much about it until a breach in a single vendor’s system causes a devastating domino effect, potentially compromising your company’s data and impacting all of your customers.
For this reason, proactive vendor risk management is now a cybersecurity imperative.
The Growing Risk of Third-Party Breaches
Third-party vendors and their applications are a potential point of failure. For cyber attackers, these become alternatives to breaching your corporate network directly. They do not need to just attack your company’s IT infrastructure, they can also find a weakness in one of your trusted partner or vendor’s systems. Your company’s data and systems are only as secure as your least secure vendor.
The latest Verizon report reveals a stark reality: nearly 30% of data breaches in 2025 were tied to third-party suppliers. This highlights the risk of relying on an interconnected ecosystem and underscores the need for a robust third-party risk management strategy within a company’s cybersecurity plan.
Secure Partners = Secure Business
Securing your business starts with securing your partnerships. Before purchasing or onboarding a new service, it’s a must to conduct a thorough security assessment and due diligence on your third-party vendors. But the risk doesn’t end there. You must also continuously evaluate how they are maintaining and patching their own services and applications.
At the same time, you need a robust plan in place to ensure your own third-party applications are updated and patched in a timely fashion. This multi-layered approach is the only way to proactively protect your organization from the risks that lie beyond your own perimeter.
JumpCloud: Simplified App Patching for Mac and Windows
JumpCloud Application Patch Management enables you to simplify and automate patch management and version control for your third-party Mac and Windows applications—all from a single, intuitive console.
Key capabilities include:
- Patch Visibility Dashboard on all Mac and Windows applications.
- Mac and Windows App Updates policy with controls for automatically installing and enforcing application updates with end-user notifications.
- Centralized view of policy configuration and recommended settings
The benefits you can now reap include:
- Effortlessly Manage Third-Party Applications: Easily install, manage, and update a wide range of popular Mac and Windows applications for all your employees.
- Consolidate Tools with a Unified Approach: Install, manage, and patch a diverse range of Mac and Windows applications directly from your JumpCloud console. This eliminates tool sprawl and simplifies your IT stack.
- Optimize for Productivity and Security: Equip your employees with the exact applications they need to be productive, all while ensuring robust access controls and proactively mitigating vulnerabilities.
- Enhance Your Security Posture: Improve device security by automatically updating your Mac and Windows applications with the latest patches. By ensuring all applications are current, you significantly reduce your attack surface and protect against potential threats.
See the Power of JumpCloud Application Patch Management for Yourself
For existing JumpCloud customers and MSP partners, our Application Patch Management capabilities are now available at no additional cost. Get started today and see how easy patching can be.
New to JumpCloud? See how easy it is to manage your entire fleet. Start a free trial today or speak with a JumpCloud representative to get a demo.
