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Third Party IoT Risk: Companies Don’t Know What They Don’t Know

by Jenny Burke | May 3, 2019 | Benchmark Study, Benchmark Study

This third annual study on third party IoT risk, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, helps the industry better understand how organizations are managing the risks created by known and unknown IoT devices. Cyberattacks, data breaches and overall business disruption...

2019 Vendor Risk Management Benchmark Study: Running Hard to Stay in Place

by Jenny Burke | Apr 8, 2019 | Benchmark Study, Benchmark Study, Uncategorized

Increasing pressures in the risk and regulatory environments continue to pose severe challenges to vendor risk management (VRM) programs, often offsetting incremental program improvements over the past 12 months. The results of this fifth annual study from Shared...

Internet of Things (IoT): A New Era of Third Party Risk

by Jenny Burke | Mar 25, 2018 | Benchmark Study

With the proliferation of IoT devices in the enterprise, managing third-party risks to sensitive and confidential data has become a herculean task. As revealed in The Second Annual Study on the Internet of Things (IoT): A New Era of Third-Party Risk, companies are...

2017 Vendor Risk Management Benchmark Study

by Jenny Burke | Nov 14, 2017 | Benchmark Study

As rapidly changing risk and regulatory environments continue to challenge vendor risk management capabilities, the results of the latest Vendor Risk Management Benchmark Study show that: Organizations in all industries are making incremental progress in improving how...

The Internet of Things (IoT): A New Era of Third-Party Risk

by Robin Slade | Jun 5, 2017 | Benchmark Study

Ready or not, IoT third party risk is here. Given the proliferation of connected devices, today’s cyber climate is evolving and organizations have to shift their focus to the security of external parties, now more than ever,” said Charlie Miller, Senior Vice President...

2016 Shared Assessments Benchmark Study

by Robin Slade | May 5, 2017 | Benchmark Study

The 2016 Vendor Risk Management Benchmark Study by Shared Assessments in collaboration with global consulting firm Protiviti examines the maturity of vendor risk management.