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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO Business Intelligence

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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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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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." In honor of Halloween, it seems appropriate to address one of the scariest issues facing organizations today: vendor or supplier management.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions. Relevant skills for DevOps Engineers include automation, software development, system administration skills, and cloud computing.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO Business Intelligence

The demand for specialized skills has boosted salaries in cybersecurity, data, engineering, development, and program management. 1. IT management It’s no surprise that IT executive positions earn some of the highest average salaries, with Dice reporting an average yearly salary of $164,814 in 2022 — an 8.4%

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CISA Urges Critical Infrastructure Operators to Protect Supply Chains

SecureWorld News

Every security and IT program has to begin with accurate inventory (i.e. This includes identifying procurement channels to avoid acquiring those items, robust hardware/software management, vulnerability scans, etc. Once that is done identifying riskier devices becomes easier.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO Business Intelligence

But guided by the framework, and the platform-first principle in particular, IT went straight for selecting two new modern platforms and adopting their processes, knowing that software came with good processes and that IT in partnership with the business units could tweak workflows where necessary.

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