Talk about a teaching moment! The theft of highly classified information from the National Security Agency by Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden brings front and center issues that outsourcers and their service providers face every day: Do I have...
While there are often significant non-financial benefits to understanding your vendors’ controls, many executives are still “fuzzy” on why they need a third party or vendor risk management program. Generally, an organization outsources a business function to a service provider...
After the recent downturn, examiners have been placing more emphasis on reputation risk. This emphasis, however, is being applied paternalistically, in a way that is limiting legitimate transactions.
Today's organizations struggle with providing employees with access to the latest technologies. It's common practice for employees to use their own devices at work for a number of reasons. Some believe BYOD is the answer to a lot of problems,...
As a leader in third party risk management, the Shared Assessments Program welcomes you to Authorities on Assurance. Our blog will feature discussions on current issues, trends and challenges in third party risk assurance from the perspective of the people...
Balancing the weights of risk, compliance and governance in today’s regulatory landscape. By Linnea Solem, Deluxe
