During the 1990s, Procurement professionals were at the heart of strategic sourcing initiatives, focusing on reducing costs, enhancing quality, expanding services, and founding organizations like the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals and the Sourcing Industry Group. Composed of buy-side procurement...

As tax season comes to a welcome close (file your returns – or an extension -- by April 18!), a recent spike in phishing attacks camouflaged as official IRS emails reminds us that basic cyber-hygiene, like fundamental third party risk...

By now we’ve all heard of SaaS (software as a service) and many have heard of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), or the term that contains them all: XaaS (anything as a service). The as-a-Service...

As numerous reputable security and analysis organizations continue to weigh the criticality of the recent Spring4Shell (aka: “SpringShell”) vulnerability, Shared Assessments has opted to take a neutral stance as to its prevalence and criticality. Regardless of this, it is crucial...

In a recent Fireside Chat presented by Shared Assessments Committees’ Leadership on “Current and Evolving Cyber & Supply Chain Risks,” conversation topics included Conti, CISA, the geopolitics of SWIFT payments, chip shortages, and how the war in Ukraine might influence...

For the past few weeks, a worldwide audience has watched in fear and shock as war unfolds in the streets of Ukraine, causing thousands of casualties and deaths and displacing thousands of people. This is the bloody side of war,...