Vendor Risk Management

Today, Vendor Risk Management should be considered one of your top priorities. We are continuously seeing vendors of all types become compromised on a day-to-day basis. As cybersecurity professionals, this doesn’t make our lives any easier. In addition to having to protect our own organizations, we also need to manage and challenge our vendors to do better with their own cybersecurity programs. In the past, with all our systems being hosted in a traditional data center, we knew where our data resided, and protecting it was a much easier task than the distributed architecture we have today with our data. In today’s modern world, with the adoption of third-party cloud services and most vendors providing SaaS services, our data has become significantly distributed. Vendors now have access to more data than they have had in the past, and we must ensure they are doing everything to best protect the data they are storing on our behalf. This is one of...