Weeks after the World Health Organization designated COVID-19 as a pandemic, EY and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) mobilized their research teams. Their mission was to identify how the pandemic and the work-from-home (WFM) migration it...
Virtual Assessment
5 Virtual Assessment Focal Points for 2021
While the use of virtual assessments was rising prior to 2020, that adoption accelerated beyond all expectations last year thanks to the COVID-driven work-from-home (WFM) transformation. This sudden shift caused numerous disruptions, including upending the risk...
Virtual Assessment Strategies – Assessing the COVID Era’s Virtual Realities – 2021 Perspectives
Count The Case of the Vanishing Vendor among the many pandemic-related unknowns and challenges third party risk management (TPRM) professionals were forced to contend with in 2020. Solving this mystery and developing virtual assessment strategies qualify as top 2021...
Ten Tips for Virtual Risk Assessments using Shared Assessments’ TPRM Toolkit
This blogpost offer ten tips in checklist format for Virtual Risk Assessments.The Covid-19 Pandemic quickly shifted our world to a virtual perspective. Remote workers, remote vendors, remote classes and even remote family get togethers. These changes are not seen as a...
Moving From On-Site to Virtual Assessments
I remember when I first understood the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic was going to have on the world of third party risk management - it's when the need to move towards virtual assessments became apparent. I was at a meeting in Phoenix in early March and a...
The Value of Virtual Assessments
A risk-based determination of whether - and how - to conduct remote assessments of vendors Expert Contributors: Angela Dogan and Andrew Hout Given how much time and money virtual assessment of vendors can save companies and their third party risk management programs,...
What ‘Virtual’ Means When Conducting Assessments
The word virtual’s various meanings include “near enough” and “not physically existing.” When it comes to performing virtual assessments, outsourcers and third parties should keep both definitions top of mind. For all practical purposes, virtual assessments are the...