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Determining a Critical Vendor

Fusion Risk Management

In the case of a financial services company, their critical vendor might be the core processor; for a manufacturing company, it might be their top supplier. Critical vendors vary from industry to industry, company to company. Some create vendor tiers based on the type of product or service that the vendor supports.

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COVID-19 and your response

KingsBridge BCP

9 – Are there other locations where our manufacturing activities can occur given our planned production schedule? Can we outsource should we need? We still face outages and shortages. Some are infrastructure-related (power outages from Ida, February’s freeze in Texas, etc.)

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Tips for Managing Third-Party Risk in Health Care

Reciprocity

The pain is felt by the healthcare organization when a vendor has an outage because of ransomware or another cybersecurity intrusion. Several device manufacturers provide remote support but don’t always follow good cybersecurity hygiene. A common mistake is granting device manufacturers VPN access with open elevated privileges.

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33 Data Protection Predictions from 19 Experts for 2024

Solutions Review

It is a common topic and one I believe means VARs need to clearly understand what they can deliver themselves, and what they need to outsource. Outsourcing, white labelling, is a great way to deliver a high quality and diverse portfolio to customers.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Regardless of the industry (non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing, public sector, etc.), Contact information (Organizational chart ) - A responsibility of the Talent Management (HR) department (internal contacts), IT department (outsourced applications contacts) and vendor management department.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Regardless of the industry (non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing, public sector, etc.), Contact information (Organizational chart ) - A responsibility of the Talent Management (HR) department (internal contacts), IT department (outsourced applications contacts) and vendor management department.