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Each year there is an annual Summit for third party risk professionals to network, train, and learn from each other and discuss with regulators how to manage third party risk and protect their company’s brand and assets. This year, the Shared Assessments Summit 2015 was held in Baltimore, MD. Bein ....

The usage of social media has shifted with customer adoption. The growth of applications and consumers joining the social media bandwagon has influenced how consumers leverage technology; interact with friends, family and coworkers, and purchase with brands they trust. Pew Research Center estimated ....

Now in its eighth year, the Annual Shared Assessments Summit brings together senior executives who will share best practices and the latest insights on managing third party risk. The theme of the 2015 Summit will be Third Party Risk Assurance: Everything Old is New Again. Click here to register. O ....

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published final guidelines that establish minimum standards for risk governance frameworks for OCC regulated institutions with over $50 billion in assets. While that asset threshold would seem to specifically exclude most community banks, the OCC h ....

The FFIEC recently released its Cyber Security Assessment observations, after conducting a pilot on cyber security readiness with more than 500 community institutions. A key theme emerging from the observations was the need for enhanced sharing of threat and vulnerability information across the publ ....

I’d like to make a bold statement: vendor risk management is easy. Step 1: Use contracts to set expectations, secure audit rights and transfer liability. Step 2: Conduct an assessment to determine if expectations are being met. Step 3: Remediate any issues identified during the assessment. ....