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A risk assessment of partners considers only competitors and known adversaries as sources of concern. Which category does SP 800-39 warn is being missed?

  1. A partner that has never suffered a breach, whose clean record removes the need to assess it before information is shared
  2. A partner that is neither competing nor hostile but may be the path through which such an entity attacks
  3. A partner with a lower security categorisation, which therefore cannot hold information whose loss would matter to the organisation
  4. A partner operating in a different regulatory regime, whose obligations are set by another supervisor and so cannot be relied upon
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Answer: B. A partner that is neither competing nor hostile but may be the path through which such an entity attacks

SP 800-39 warns that a partner need not be a rival or an adversary to matter: it can serve as the route by which one reaches you. Sharing decisions must weigh that indirect exposure.

Source: NIST SP 800-39 (NIST) — Sec. 2.6.1 Establishing Trust Among Organizations

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