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By Sean Miles, Associate Director, Risk, comparethemarket.com
How would you define ‘critical’ in a third-party risk perspective?
Critical providers are those providers without which a business could not deliver its core products and services, effectively, efficiently and on time. Providers can be critical for several reasons; because they manage sensitive data, because they provide essential applications or infrastructure, because they speak to customers etc…