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Blog Category - Best Practices

Best Practices

Assurance Processes to Address Fourth Party & Subcontracting Risks

Part III of a IV part series In part II of the four part blog series, Regulators Expectations for Third Party Risk Management, I focused on governance and oversight structures for each phase of the third party relationship lifecycle. Today,...

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Best Practices, Shared Assessments

How Shared Assessments Approached the Need to Assess the Security of Third Party Provided Software

During discussions in 2013 to determine the next risk areas that should be addressed by the Shared Assessments Program Tools, the focus rapidly turned to software security. As we polled our members we found that many of them were concerned...

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Best Practices, Risk Landscape

Risk-based Approach to Third Party Risk Management

Part I in a series In less than eighteen months, there has been more industry guidance and updated regulations regarding third party risk than at any other juncture in the evolution of governance within the financial services industry. Media attention...

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Best Practices

Payment Token Implementation Do’s and Don’ts

With an estimated 70% of US credit cards likely to be EMV chip ready by the end of next year ((70 Percent of U.S. Credit Cards to Include EMV Chips 2015, Computer World, June 16, 2014, http://www.eweek.com/security/70-percent-of-us-credit-cards-to-include-evm-chips-by-2015.html)) , the race...

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Best Practices

Breach Response 101: Educate Your C-Suite & Board of Directors

Between the Q1 market response to retailer breaches and the Heartbleed Bug Vulnerability, organizations of all sizes are assessing and reviewing their internal and external incident management policies, standards and procedures. The pace at which incidents can go viral requires...

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Best Practices, Risk Landscape

There’s Plenty of Support for Smaller Banks to Address Third Party Risk

The need for community banks to be particularly attentive to third party risks was underscored yesterday in a speech by the Controller of the Currency’s Thomas Curry. Smaller institutions tend to be more dependent on third parties for IT services....

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