5 Effective Vendor Due Diligence Best Practices
Assessing the reputations of the people and companies with whom you do business has always been standard practice. Formally known as the vendor due diligence process, most successful companies have another party examine how any vendor operates before allowing them...
Vendor Risk Management Best Practices
What Are the Best Risk Management Best Practices? Now that the global supply chain is becoming more complex, and companies are establishing relationships with an increasingly intricate network of partners, third-party risk management is imperative. We recommend to...
What Is “Third Party” in Third-Party Risk Management?
In an era when protecting digital assets is essential for all companies, you must find ways to identify and mitigate risks from your vendors and suppliers. It is your partners, suppliers, and sub-contractors who enable your organization to thrive and diversify. These...
Third Party Data Breaches: All You Need to Know in 2020
What Is a Third-Party Data Breach? In short, a third party breach occurs when a secondary vendor for a product has sensitive data stolen from them. In previous decades, the most common form of the breach was a primary breach, when attacks were on their direct targets....
What is the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)?
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a standardized set of requirements developed by the Department of Defense (DoD). Every contractor and governmental subcontractor to the DoD that stores, processes or manages Controlled Unclassified Information...
How Long Does ISO 27001 Certification Take?
Blog When your company stores, transmits, or otherwise manages data of any kind, keeping it safe and out of the hands of un-authorized entities must be the number one priority for your information systems security team. While achieving this evolving goal is...
PCI Compliance Timeline: How Long Does It Take?
Blog While data breaches did not always receive the level of attention they garner today, they presented pressing problems to businesses and credit card companies as far back as the 1990s. Although the card providers had made attempts to resolve these...
How Long Does It Take to Get a SOC 2 Report
Data drives most of today’s cloud-based organizations. If your company is one of the many enterprises that transmits, stores, manages or otherwise handles data for your own use or as a service to customers, you have also established a system of security controls that...
Red vs. Blue Team Security
Blog Hackers and other cybercriminals are pulling out all the stops, mounting a stunning array of increasingly sophisticated attacks on businesses of all sizes and industries. Any enterprise that stores, transmits, or otherwise handles data of any kind,...
Vulnerability Management Program
Today’s multi-layered information systems make it possible for companies like yours to store, manage, and transmit data like never before. However, it is that very complexity that potentially leaves your security architecture vulnerable to threats. User error,...