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What is Vendor Risk Monitoring in Cybersecurity?

Vendor risk monitoring is the process of continuously identifying, assessing, and managing security risks associated with third-party vendors. This effort is crucial to a successful Vendor Risk Management program as it ensures an organization’s third-party risk exposures remain within acceptable levels throughout each vendor's lifecycle.

Top 8 Vendor Risk Monitoring Solutions in 2024

The effectiveness of your entire Vendor Risk Management program is contingent on your vendor risk monitoring capabilities. Insufficient vendor security monitoring that fails to detect cyber risks during onboarding or any new cybersecurity risks throughout the vendor lifecycle will inevitably emerge later on as a major breach risk. To help you choose a vendor risk monitoring solution that will maximize your VRM investment, this post ranks the top eight vendor monitoring platforms on the market in 2024.

Your Money or Your Data: Ransomware Readiness Planning

Today’s blog installment brings us to the end of our 30-week journey that covered 30 cybersecurity topics that I felt would be of interest to a wide variety of security practitioners, such as Security Architects, Security Admins, and Security Auditors. I hope everyone found it as helpful as I found it to write. So, let’s move on with our last topic.

The Hacktivist Response to UK Foreign Policy

Hacktivism is by its very nature reactive, as it involves the use of computer-based techniques as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change. Groups conduct attacks in response to the actions of others, both to encourage or discourage these actions. With the emergence and developments of the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Palestine conflict escalations, there has been a resurgence in hacktivism over the past few years.

Improving Energy Efficiency and Resource Allocation with Advanced Facility Management Software

In an era where sustainability and cost-efficiency are paramount, organizations across industries are seeking innovative ways to optimize their operations. One powerful tool that has emerged as a game-changer in this quest is advanced facility management software. This technology is revolutionizing how businesses manage their physical assets, allocate resources, and improve energy efficiency. Let's explore how cutting-edge facility management solutions are driving significant improvements in these critical areas.

OpenSCAP Hardening Guide in 2024

The OpenSCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol) project offers an extensive range of hardening guides, configuration baselines, and tools for assessing vulnerabilities and configuration issues, utilizing SCAP as the protocol for storing the foundational data. Created by the open-source community, OpenSCAP hardening allows a selection of a security policy that aligns with an organization’s needs, irrespective of its size.

Can We Truly Test Gen AI Apps? Growing Need for AI Guardrails

Unlike traditional software, where testing is relatively straightforward, Gen AI apps introduce complexities that make testing far more intricate. This blog explores why traditional software testing methodologies fall short for Gen AI applications and highlights the unique challenges posed by these advanced technologies.

Deep And Dark Web Monitoring for Business: Uncovering Hidden Risks

With tens of thousands of potential threats lurking in remote corners of the deep and dark web, organizations are increasingly at risk of being targeted by cyber attackers or having their sensitive information traded or leaked online. Deep and dark web monitoring enables businesses to safeguard their digital assets and accelerate visibility of online threats, protecting their brand and reputation.

Evolution of Attack Surface Management

While it was not called ASM, the concept of managing attack surface management began with basic asset management practices in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Organizations focused on keeping an inventory of their digital assets, such as servers, desktops, and network devices. The primary objective was to maintain an accurate record of these assets to ensure proper configuration and patch management.

Software supply chain risk assessment: 8 steps to a secure SDLC

Like any chain, a software supply chain contains many links. These links consist of every actor involved in the development & deployment of your code in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). An actor can be the developers, infrastructure components, and even repositories like GitHub. A company might have a very secure supply chain. However, it will only be as strong as its weakest link.