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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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Vendor management for telecoms networks

Spearline Testing

For such networks, vendor management is a crucial aspect of maintaining successful operations. Vendor management. Spearline customers can use the data and information provided to them through the platform to create an accurate and reflective record of each carrier’s performance. Why Spearline?

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Spooky, Scary Tales of Vendor Management

SecureWorld News

Five little vendors access your data. The first one said, "For this company, vendor management doesn't seem to matta." The fourth one said, "Regulation requires vendor control." It is noteworthy that some of the most well known data breaches were caused by vendors or suppliers.

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57,000 Bank of America Customers' Data Compromised in Breach

SecureWorld News

Bank of America is notifying customers that their personal information was compromised in a data breach impacting Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS), a third-party vendor. According to breach notification letters , the exposed customer data includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and financial account details.

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Vendor management and looking beyond SMB firewalls, anti-virus, and data backups

IT Toolbox

From servers to PBXs and everything in between, his company sells, installs, and manages entire network environments for its customers. I just had lunch with a long-time business colleague who specializes in IT consulting and network systems integration for small and medium-sized businesses.

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Travelex leverages cloud-based customer data platform to boost retention

CIO Business Intelligence

Acknowledging the potential this trend offers for a foreign exchange company like Travelex, Hans van der Waal, the company’s global IT director, is constantly looking for more strategic ways to unlock the power of data to service their travel card customers. From the data, we see these messages have made a tremendous impact,” he says. “So

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What Is TPRM? Just Ask T-Mobile

TM Forum

Sponsored by: FICO You can have the best cybersecurity in the world, but if your vendor suffers a breach, your data, your customers and your reputation are at risk. T-Mobile has signed on to use the FICO® Cyber Risk Score as a key quantitative risk metric in its vendor management program.

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