Opportunities abound for CG&S companies to establish or join ecosystems that spark joint product development and enable the sharing of ideas, data and innovations. Companies need to carefully consider the roles they can play. They must choose their partners wisely. And given that new ecosystem services will be based on extensive data sharing among participants, they must squarely focus on securing those ecosystems. of CG&S executives believe they need to % rethink security to protect not just themselves, 90 but their ecosystems. Yet, only 27 percent truly know that their ecosystem partners take security as seriously as they do.