Category Archives: Vendor Management

3 Poor Vendor Management Practices to Avoid

In 2013 A Trustwave investigation of 450 data breaches that occurred worldwide found that 63 percent of them were linked to a external third-party product or service of IT administration. As usual, after further investigation, nearly all of the affected companies were pretty confident that their company information was secure with the vendor. The fact is, these breaches still occurred,...
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Emerging Vendor Risks Affecting SME Business

We all read the ever increasing rise of third party data breaches, and these large multinational companies provide products and services everyday to small and medium sized businesses in Australia. The SME (Small and Medium Enterprises) business demographic find themselves compelled to outsource many key business functions and associated data. I hear conversations debating the...
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