Your Resilience Is Only as Strong as Your Third Parties
Understand how third-party failures cascade into operational disruption, and how to build resilience through visibility, governance, and supplier dependency management.
6 Ways CISOs Turn Vendor Risk into an Innovation Advantage
As third-party related issues and breaches grow more frequent and costly, their overall impact on business operations and brand trust has become impossible to ignore. An alarming statistic in the Verizon 2025 Data Breach [...]
5 Ways to Get Visibility of Third-Party Risk and Automate Vendor Risk Management
Third-party suppliers play a critical role in the success of an organization. However, poor performance, financial instability, data breaches, or compliance failures from a vendor can create significant risks, affecting operations, finances, and reputation. Proactive [...]
Fourth-Party Risk: Time to Take Notice
Fourth-party risk lurks as a silent menace in the intricate web of supply-chain management. Concealed beyond the immediate reach to direct suppliers, it extends deep into the layers of the supply-chain ecosystem, reaching all [...]
How to Improve Vendor Compliance for the 21st Century
Vendor compliance has moved well beyond checked boxes and printed contracts in filing cabinets. In today’s interconnected and complex landscape, organizations need to manage vendor relationships with an eye toward reducing unneeded spending and [...]
How to Strengthen Your Supply Chain Risk Management Strategy
With heightened market disruptions posing ever-greater threats to supply chains, only 21% of supply chain risk managers report having a highly adaptable network with strong visibility. Are you one of the 21%? Do you [...]
How TPAs Can Streamline Insurance Claims Management
As Third Party Administrators (TPAs), you really save the day. By helping organizations tailor their claims administrations to their specific needs and reduce the cost of overhead for insurance claims management, your role can [...]
Ransomware Protection: Four Steps to Take Now
Ransomware attacks have increased at an alarming rate, not just in volume but in complexity. Organizations of all sizes in all industries are being targeted. The average cost of a ransomware attack – not [...]
What is a Vendor Risk Assessment?
As the use of third-party suppliers grows, it is increasingly imperative to be diligent with vendor risk assessment practices. Vendors and other third-party suppliers are essential for keeping most organizations running smoothly. But these relationships [...]
How to Manage ESG Supply Chain Risks
ESG supply chain risks are changing how businesses operate. Prompted by customers, investors, and regulators, business managers need ways to identify and address environmental, social, and governance risks in their offerings, operations, and supply chains. [...]
What is Third-Party Risk Management
As organizations become increasingly dependent on others for supplies, services, and expertise, more are asking what is third-party risk management – and how do we do it right? Outsourcing to third parties can save [...]
3 Ways to Automate Third-Party Risk Management
As organizations increasingly rely on external networks, the imperative to monitor and evaluate these third-party relationships intensifies. Third-party risk management automation grants insight into vendor and supplier operations, clarifying the potential risks they carry for your [...]