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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO Business Intelligence

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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6 ways to streamline IT vendor onboarding

CIO Business Intelligence

Onboarding a vendor can also take a while if their technology doesn’t integrate. Education has standards for some forms of integration, such as data integration, which can streamline the process, according to UCSD’s Kellen. “If It just requires good planning on the company’s part to prepare the vendor for what you’re doing.”.

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Why Ruby Life CISO George Al Koura puts people first

CIO Business Intelligence

I actually don’t have a formal STEM education,” he says. “I What’s interesting is I had no formal education or training on threat intelligence, and I was learning security operations in the cyber role on the fly at the time. C-Suite, CIO, IT Leadership, Relationship Building, Vendor Management

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NZ losing out on opportunity to outsource

CIO Business Intelligence

What’s even more puzzling, he says, is that this is happening at a time when local education institutions are also not producing enough new workers to plug the gaps. “We IT Skills, Outsourcing, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers We are facing one of the biggest crunches in terms of access to skills to start with.

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Cognitio’s Roger Hockenberry Cited in BizTechReports

CTOvision

Because it’s not question of eliminating risk, it is understanding and managing risk. So we focus on educating our clients to understand that they must operate as almost a mini-intelligence agency themselves and collect and analyze information that affects how they operate — because in many cases they are targets.

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Fountainhead: A Leading Indicator of "Consumerized IT"?

Fountainhead

In a recent Forrester Research report, " Shifting from Rules to Guardrails " there are some good observations of how IT (and the CIO) have to transform from being technologists to becoming brokers, vendor managers, and providers of technology governance: "We see a blurring boundary between business and IT.

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3 lessons that CIOs learned in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Organization-wide, staff must be educated on security risks and resulting policies surrounding BYOD, printing, third-party software, remote workers, legacy equipment, vendor management, social engineering, outdated-training and security policies, and public or poorly protected WiFi.