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Shared fate vs shared responsibility: What’s the difference and how can your business benefit?

When a cybersecurity incident implicates both a vendor and a customer, it’s not always clear where responsibility lies. While customers lack oversight on a tool’s underlying security, the provider lacks oversight on how securely the tool is being used. Under the ‘shared responsibility model’, the division of roles seems fairly straightforward. Crowdstrike’s definition, for example, states that the cloud provider…