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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." And the five little vendors knew their customer hadn't discovered their gaps (in security).

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

SecureWorld News

According to breach notification letters , the exposed customer data includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and financial account details. Cybersecurity experts say this latest breach underscores risks in the interconnected financial sector, especially regarding third-party vendor management. "As

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Netflix Hack: Key Lessons In The Economics Of Ransomware And Managing 3rd Party Risk

Forrester IT

Enterprise Risk Management. vendor management. With that kind of risk analysis, you don't pay a ransom. Read more Categories: Brand Risk. Governance Risk and Compliance. Ransomware. third party data.

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The move toward enterprise security technology integration

Network World

82% of survey respondents “strongly agree” or “agree” with the statement: "My organization is actively building a security architecture that integrates multiple individual product." This is likely part of a SOAPA (security operations and analytics platform architecture) project. Here are the results: .

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CISA Urges Critical Infrastructure Operators to Protect Supply Chains

SecureWorld News

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an alert to urge critical infrastructure organizations to scope their environments for communications equipment deemed to pose high risk. CISA reminds all critical infrastructure owners and operators to take necessary steps in securing the nation's most critical supply chains.

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Using Our Tools Against Us: Adversaries Continue To Abuse Trust In The Supply Chain

Forrester IT

I believe that GLaDOS (the evil AI from the Portal video game franchise) may have been trying to make a point about the state of security with her song “Still Alive.” The fictional, artificially super intelligent computer system from Portal once sang, “…But there’s no sense crying over every mistake.

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