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Risk Management
Optimize and Automate
SecurityScorecard Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Sam Kassoumeh shares Tip #1 from our ebook, 5 Ways to Secure Your Organization in Turbulent Times: Optimize and automate your business ecosystem risk management (aka your third-party risk management) program - to save time and reduce risk.Your security posture is never just your security posture. In this hyperconnected cloud ecosystem, it’s a combination of your own, your vendors’, their vendors’, and so on. Learn how the cyber health of your ecosystem can grow trust and integrity with your clientbase, and also maintain business continuity.
Key Cybersecurity KPIs to Report to the Board
As a CISO, you need to talk to your board members in their language. Here are 2 hacks to do that: Speak in terms of financial cyber risk quantification. Don’t tell them, “I deployed the Prolexic solution to mitigate DDoS attack on 121.1.2.3/24 network.” That won’t make an impact on them. Tell them, “I'm going to save potentially up to $5 million in an outage by spending $200,000 on a device to mitigate ransomware attacks.” Compare your organization with competitors.
Enable Faster Business Growth
Improving your organization’s cybersecurity posture increases trust with your clients and partners, and enables faster business growth. In times of economic uncertainty when budgets tighten, it’s critical to make that connection. In this video series, SecurityScorecard Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer Sam Kassoumeh shares tips from our ebook, 5 Ways to Secure Your Organization in Turbulent Times, on how security teams can reduce risk by over 85% while ensuring that security investments deliver tangible value.
Measuring Cyber Hygiene
What you can’t measure, you can’t improve. In cybersecurity, nothing like this existed until SecurityScorecard came along. We introduced a set of objective KPIs that are trustworthy, accurate, and could be used to compare companies to each other. We do this by assembling hundreds of different signals across different categories of risk, such as application security, network security, endpoint security, leaked credentials, and shared records.
How to Integrate NDAs into the Vendor Risk Management Process
During the Vendor Risk Management process, information is in constant flux. From risk assessments to risk remediation processes, communication involving sensitive security control data continuously flows between an organization and its monitored vendors. If intercepted, this information stream could be used as open source intelligence for a third-party data breach campaign, nullifying the very efforts a VRM program is trying to mitigate.
Reducing Supply Chain Security Risks with Vendor Segmentation
The vulnerabilities perforating the global supply chain have remained dormant for many years. But the violent disruptions of the pandemic finally pushed these risks to the surface, revealing the detrimental impacts of their exploitation to the world.
How to Build a Culture of Urgency
Darwin said it's not the strongest or the smartest that survive and thrive, but the quickest to adapt to change. Speed is everything if you want to run a company successfully. To do that, you need to build a culture of operating with urgency. That doesn’t mean you run frazzled or do a million things simultaneously. Nor does it mean being too flexible and nice when dependent teams tell you, “Go wait.”
What is Cyber Vendor Risk Management? Cyber VRM Explained
Cyber VRM is the practice of identifying, assessing, and remediating the cybersecurity risks of third-party vendors. This involves combining objective, quantifiable data sources like security ratings and data leak detection with subjective qualitative data sources like security questionnaires and other security evidence to get a complete view of your third-party vendors’ security posture. A Cyber VRM solution facilitates this practice.
4 Ways Tech Companies Can Better Manage Vendor Risks in 2022
The technology industry is at the forefront of digital transformation, enabling all other industries to achieve greater operational capabilities and connectivity through innovative solutions. Tech companies, such as SaaS vendors, provide crucial software infrastructure to hundreds or even thousands of other organizations. These vendors access, store and transmit large volumes of sensitive information, including valuable healthcare and finance data.