Outsourcing is a fact of life for healthcare organizations, from routine functions such as food services and laundry to regulatory compliance and clinical activities. Large numbers of vendors must be properly managed in order to reduce clinical, financial and regulatory risk. This paper discusses how to reduce complexity in third-party vendor risk management, and how to turn uncertainty and confusion into efficiency and confidence.

“The future of GRC will not just be about managing known risks or monitoring compliance. It will be about sustaining an organization’s social license to operate.”

This report takes a look at the risk involved with third party cybersecurity issues.

Aon’s Cyber Solutions explores eight specific risks that organizations may face in 2019 no matter where they are on their digital journey.

This survey, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BitSight, offers insight in to the critical role that Vendors play in key business functions and how they can create security risks and issues.

This infographic offers insights relating to the European Cybersecurity regulations.

Abstract: Enterprises increasingly operate in a digitally interconnected world where third parties like suppliers, customers, channel partners, and others are often directly connected to their internal IT systems, and where their underlying IT infrastructure may be owned and managed by an outside organization. These business relationships can knowingly or unknowingly introduce different types of risks that need to be identified and managed as if these third parties were part of the enterprise itself. Recorded Future’s latest risk intelligence offering enables threat intelligence teams to better understand, monitor, and measure their real-time exposure to these third-party risks. Armed with this information, organizations can better assess and prioritize risk mitigation actions.

From the report, “As the hype and soaring price of cryptocurrency has drawn in thousands of new players worldwide, generating a single bitcoin takes a lot more servers than it used to. It is becoming an arms race amongst miners for access to CPUs, GPUs and even electricity. As a result, we are starting to see a cryptojacking epidemic and hackers aren’t sparing anyone; they are targeting everyone from consumers to large multinational organizations.”

The current environment for doing business forces business leaders to face an expanding attack surface, more sophisticated threats and threat actors, and mounting regulatory compliance. These factors are creating a perfect storm that puts your organization and your customers at risk. Now is the time to act. As a Board member or executive, it is not only your goal, but your responsibility to shareholders to protect their interests. The threat to your bottom line from a single incident are significant but a digital risk management strategy can help.

Data breaches have become a risk to every law firm throughout the world regardless of the number of attorneys, revenues or practice areas. The Law Firm Cybersecurity Scorecard is developed by LOGICFORCE and published regularly to educate the legal industry on the current state of cybersecurity preparedness.

The Third-Party Security Risk Management Playbook (Playbook) is the definitive study of third-party security risk management practices. Based on in-depth interviews of risk executives from 30 domestic and global firms, it reveals the real-world capabilities and practices employed to manage third-party cyber risk, distilled into 14 capabilities with 72 common, emerging, and pioneering practices.

This white paper tackles the subject of how outsourced labor can cause cybersecurity risk.

A key takeaway from this research is that accountability for managing third party risk is dispersed throughout the organization. Not having one person or function with ownership of the risk is a serious barrier to achieving an effective third part risk management program.

This paper was written to understand understand how organizations qualify and quantify the financial risk to their tangible and intangible assets in the event of a network privacy or security incident.

The, NYSE Governance Services, in partnership with Veracode, surveyed nearly 200 directors of public companies representing a variety of industries—including financial services, technology, and health care—to discover how they view cybersecurity in the boardroom. Their goal was to gain insight into how cybersecurity is being understood, prioritized, and addressed at the board level.

This report takes a look at how accountants and other board members analyze cybersecurity.

All available industry statistics show that cybersecurity attacks and breaches continue to rise—so how prepared are UK companies to manage cyberattacks? In this survey we asked organisations about their plans for investment and about how well they think they are managing cyber risk.

This is a threat advisory for iCare Leak

The report focuses on how insurance can help make UK companies more resilient to the cyber threat, and is the result of co-operation between representatives of the UK Government and the insurance industry, led by the Cabinet Office and Marsh.

For this cybersecurity report, the Cloudlock CyberLab analyzed daily behavior across 10 million users, 1 billion files, and 101,000 apps to surface insightful trends and help organizations detect signs of threat. On the following pages, we’ll walk you through the CyberLab’s Cloud Threat Funnel, designed to help security teams narrow their focus onto user activities that are the most indicative of true threat.

This report will help you benchmark your third-party risk management program and its performance against trends in the market and best practices.