Critical Third Party Applications: Risk and Handling

From an internal point of view, a company focuses on the services its business is built around, their own infrastructure, networks and applications. During normal operations along those lines, companies access C3PA. Those are applications that are not proprietary to the company's IT resources. However, they're used to – among other things – handle financially and/or legally binding transactions. A prime example of a C3PA would be access to e-banking that is used to manage company accounts.