Week 3 Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Securing Internet-Connected Devices in Healthcare
Week three of Cybersecurity Awareness Month is themed “Securing Internet-Connected Devices in Healthcare.” Healthcare technology is changing in major ways. In the past decade, healthcare has accelerated into the digital realm with conversion from paper to electronic...
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Members Riding The Forrester Wave
October 6, 2020, marked the release of the Q4 The Forrester Wave™: Third-Party Risk Management Platforms report. This report reviews the 11 most significant providers in the TPRM space using a 23-criterion evaluation. Showing how each provider measures up, this report...
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Best Practices For Board Risk Committees
In partnership with Women Corporate Directors, The Santa Fe Group (managing entity of Shared Assessments) has explored the need for Board Risk Committees through a two-part webinar series. This blogpost describes the case for Board Risk Committees (BRC) and summarizes...
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Questions to Ask When Purchasing or Subscribing to IoT Products and Services
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month – in step with this first week’s focus on internet-connected devices and “empowering users to own their role in security by taking steps to reduce risks,” this blogpost examines what enterprise organizations need to understand...
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Principle of Least Privilege – The BASICS – A Security Principle To Live By?
Shared Assessments' Insurance Vertical Strategy Group came together for its quarterly meeting last week. Conversation was engaging and covered the widening scope of assessments, the multitude of third party types and the need for re-risking vendors in light of the...
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2021 Third Party Risk Management Toolkit Updates
2020 has brought unique risk challenges that have significantly shifted the focus of risk managers. New operational risks emerged with the pandemic, with major shifts to work from home security and service availability issues, vendor stability, and socioeconomic...
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The Value of Community
COVID-19 has brought many changes to our lives. We all miss the sense of community. Spending time with neighbors and friends. Participating in school related activities. Being with family. But let’s not forget our work community. The workplace was where our co-workers...
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In Your Line Of Sight – Key Risk Indicators and Mitigators For Vendor Performance
Shared Assessments’ Vertical Strategy Groups (VSGs) from the Asset Management, Financial Institution and Insurance sectors have been exchanging views on Vendor Performance in the post COVID-19 landscape. The VSG groups have approached Vendor Performance from a radar...
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Response to the Shifting Risk Landscape – 2021 Third Party Risk Management Toolkit
Shared Assessments is busy putting the final touches on the 2021 Third Party Risk Management Toolkit, set to launch September 29, 2020. The toolkit is responsive to the events of 2020 – a global pandemic, shutdowns and a shift to a virtual workforce has meant this...
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65% Of VRM Tools in Magic Quadrant Partner With Shared Assessments
On August 24, 2020, Gartner published their Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools. Gartner describes IT Vendor Risk Management as "the discipline of addressing the residual risk that businesses and governments face when working with external service...
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