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Third-Party Risk Management vs Vendor Risk Management

Organizational risk management often mentions third-party risk management (TPRM) and vendor risk management (VRM). The cybersecurity industry commonly uses these terms interchangeably, but there is a distinct difference between these two crucial components of an organization's broader risk management strategy.

Vendor Due Diligence Questionnaires: Free Template

Vendor due diligence questionnaires are a type of security questionnaire for third-party vendors or service providers that are an essential part of any third-party risk management program (TPRM) program. By using a vendor due diligence questionnaire, security teams can evaluate a new vendor’s overall risk hygiene before entering into a business partnership.

8 Steps to Cultivate a Culture of Risk Awareness in Higher Education

Over the last few years, the education industry has increased its dependency on third-party service providers, expanding the average attack surface and escalating the importance of comprehensive risk awareness. Higher education institutions that rely on large vendor ecosystems must develop robust cultures of risk awareness to safeguard their data and daily operations from cyber attacks, data breaches, and other disruptions.

Deciphering CUI: What is Controlled Unclassified Information?

In today’s interconnected digital world, safeguarding sensitive data and preventing unauthorized access is vital, especially for U.S. government agencies, contractors, and other information-sharing partners that compete for Department of Defense (DoD) contracts. While many organizations that work alongside the U.S.

Website References Object Storage

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HTTP Proxy Service Detected

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Why the CISO Has Become the Chief Storytelling Officer

The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has undergone a transformation as profound as the threats we face. Between new regulations such as SEC, NIS2, and DORA, the explosion of generative AI, and the rapidly expanding attack surface, the burden is now on cybersecurity leaders to not only protect the organization but build confidence with customers, regulators, board members, and other stakeholders. The key to building trust? Storytelling.

Elevating a UK Bank's Cyber Risk Mitigation Capabilities

Seeking to bolster its operational resilience, a UK bank was on the hunt for a partner to enhance their threat visibility throughout its environment, assuming the responsibility of monitoring key infrastructure and assets around the clock. In fast-moving threat landscape where security alerts can quickly multiply, Kroll's Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service, Kroll Responder, cuts through the noise. Learn how we helped our client improve cyber resilience by significantly reducing false positives, thus improving operational efficiency and security effectiveness.

Examining NIST CSF 2.0: Everything you need to know

In 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) following a presidential executive order to help organizations better understand, reduce, and communicate cybersecurity risk. In the decade since its introduction, NIST CSF has become one of the most widely recognized and utilized frameworks globally, built upon five key functions: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.

How Cyber Exposure Management Strengthens Overall Enterprise Risk Management

In recent years, there's only been a handful of data breaches within public companies that could be considered financially "material." These breaches include those often pointed to as examples in cybersecurity presentations: the 2013 Target breach, the 2017 Equifax breach, the 2019 Capital One breach, and most recently, the Colonial Pipeline incident.