Jonathan Russell, Author at ConfidentVMS

Vendor Risk Assessment Best Practice #2 – Assess Early

Apr 12, 2022Jonathan Russell3rd Party Management, Healthcare third party risk management, Healthcare vendor risk management, Third Party Risk, Third Party Risk Management, Vendor Management, Vendor Risk

Vendor risk evaluation is an expensive afterthought. 73% of organizations have no direct communication channel between the security program and management responsible for contracts and procurement. Security, whether intentional or not, is effectively an afterthought. This results in a huge business process gap — and a fundamental mistake — that is very common.

Five Critical Elements for Controlling Access to Secure Systems

When you plan to keep information secure, you naturally begin to consider limiting access to the information. In fact, you can keep information secure if you just eliminate all access! However, the information system itself would be considered non-functional in this case. Instead, you need to allow the proper people the appropriate level of access […]