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January 10, 2024

What Is a Cybersecurity Vendor Due Diligence Questionnaire?

Organizations increasingly rely on third- and fourth-party vendors and service providers to carry out day-to-day operations, expanding their exposure to cyber threats. After analyzing over 12 million companies’ security postures and supporting thousands of M&A transactions, SecurityScorecard has learned that traditional cybersecurity due diligence… Read More

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January 10, 2024

Cybersecurity Audit vs. Cybersecurity Assessment: What’s the Difference?

Cybersecurity assessments and audits are often discussed interchangeably. While the two are related, assessments and audits are distinct cybersecurity and compliance evaluation mechanisms. It’s important for security leaders to understand exactly how the two function in order to drive organizational cyber maturity and meet industry-specific regulatory requirements. How does a cybersecurity… Read More

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January 10, 2024

Best Practices for Compliance Monitoring in Cybersecurity

Compliance is a key component to any cybersecurity program. However, due to the complex nature of laws and industry regulations, ensuring compliance is often very difficult for organizations. As non-compliance can result in considerable fines, organizations must be able to align their cybersecurity and compliance efforts. One way to do… Read More

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January 10, 2024

What is Continuous Cybersecurity Monitoring?

Moving away from on-premises applications and IT infrastructures as part of digital transformation strategies increases your digital footprint. The more connected cloud applications and services you add to your IT stack, the more potential risks you introduce because you’re expanding your attack surface. Cyber attacks… Read More

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January 10, 2024

Enterprise Cybersecurity: What it is & Why it’s Important

Having effective enterprise cybersecurity is more than having your employees create a password that isn’t their pet’s name—unless perhaps their cat’s name is at least 12 characters long, and a combination of upper- and lower-case letters and symbols. Whether it’s well-researched spearphishing attempts or bypassing MFA, threat actors have only… Read More

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January 10, 2024

Vendor Risk Management vs Third Party Risk Management vs Enterprise Risk Management: What’s the Difference?

While Vendor Risk Management (VRM) and Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) are often used interchangeably, they’re not always the same thing. And what about Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)? Risk management is extremely important in information security, especially when third parties are concerned. According to Deloitte’s Extended Enterprise… Read More

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January 10, 2024

Top 7 Security Risks of Cloud Computing

Many businesses are shifting workloads to the cloud in an effort to increase efficiency and streamline workloads. In fact, according to the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report, roughly 90% of enterprises anticipate cloud usage will expand even further as a result of COVID-19. While cloud computing… Read More

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January 10, 2024

What Is a Cybersecurity Audit and Why Does it Matter?

As organizations embrace new digital technologies, the risk of cybersecurity threats is growing steadily. Digital transformation is increasing network complexity, which often creates security weaknesses and potential entry points for cyber adversaries to exploit. If left unaddressed, these cyber risks can disrupt business processes and harm goals. Therefore,… Read More

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January 10, 2024

2025 Guide to Completing a Vendor Risk Management Questionnaire

Vendor risk management is increasingly crucial in 2025 as enterprises integrate more cloud-based solutions into their IT ecosystems. With this shift comes greater compliance risks, making the verification of vendors’ security controls and regular security audits essential. Understanding and managing these risks effectively requires ongoing communication with… Read More

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January 10, 2024

What is Attack Surface Management?

In modern business environments, organizations are under increased pressure to adopt digital solutions to stay competitive. While these solutions have undoubted benefits for organizations, they also expand their entire attack surface and expose them to increased levels of cyber risk. If left unaddressed, these… Read More

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January 10, 2024

16 Countries with GDPR-like Data Privacy Laws

Coming into force on May 25th, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was a landmark for data protection. Trading blocs, governments, and privacy organizations took note, and over the last three years, GDPR has inspired new data privacy legislation worldwide. In my view, there are two very… Read More

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January 10, 2024

Fortinet Fortigate Vulnerability CVE-2023-27997: How to Surface Exposed Devices and Mitigate the Threat

Recently, a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-27997 was identified in Fortinet Fortigate appliances. Fortinet makes some of the most popular firewall and VPN devices on the market, which makes them an attractive target for threat actors. This vulnerability has been exploited by the Chinese APT group Volt Typhoon, among others, targeting… Read More

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January 10, 2024

What are the Key Drivers of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)?

Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) are two disciplines you’d think would be fully integrated into most organizations. After all, ERM is the process of managing risks and identifying threats to an organization as a whole — two tasks key to cybersecurity in general. And breaches are obviously… Read More

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January 10, 2024

The 2 Types of Risk Assessment Methodology

Every company handles sensitive information — customer data, proprietary information, information assets, and employees’ personal information — all of these records come with risk attached to them. How can your organization understand exactly how much risk it faces regarding the information it stores and its cybersecurity… Read More

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January 10, 2024

What is a Third-Party Service Provider?

Every company excels at something. Whether you manufacture cars, build software, or sell a service, your organization specializes in what it does best. However, just like it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a group of systems, applications, and networks to run a successful business. By understanding… Read More

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Third-Party Risk Management

January 10, 2024

8 Types of Vendor Risks That Are Important to Monitor in 2025

Outsourcing operations to third-party vendors has become a popular business strategy as it allows organizations to save money and increase operational efficiencies. As the role of third-party vendors expands, having vendor management processes in place becomes key to organizational success. Effective vendor management processes ensure not only cost efficiency but also… Read More

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January 10, 2024

5 Ways to Meet Regulatory Compliance and Standards Requirements

Compliance isn’t easy: it’s expensive, time consuming, and regulations are constantly changing. It may be hard to get buy-in from employees or leadership who see compliance as a barrier to productivity, and it may also be difficult to know when your organization falls out of compliance. But if you’re doing… Read More

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January 10, 2024

7 Incident Response Metrics and How to Use Them

In a world where cybercriminals continuously evolve their threat methodologies, most security professionals believe that it’s no longer a question of “if” an organization will experience a data security event but rather “when” it will happen. As you work to better secure your IT stack, you need to ensure that… Read More

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January 10, 2024

How to Perform an Information Security Gap Analysis

The cyber threat landscape is ever-evolving, and the security controls that worked for your organization yesterday may no longer be sufficient today. Cyberattacks happen every second, and a security breach can result in the loss of clients’ confidential information, potentially leading to financial penalties and a damaged reputation. Read More

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January 10, 2024

KPIs for Security Operations & Incident Response

Creating a resilient cybersecurity program means understanding your current security posture and knowing what you want your future cybersecurity posture to look like. In today’s constantly changing threat landscape, cybersecurity maturity is the best way to mitigate security incident risks. However, understanding maturity means knowing where… Read More

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January 10, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Cybersecurity Due Diligence

Organizations increasingly rely on third- and fourth-party vendors and service providers to carry out day-to-day operations, expanding their exposure to cyber threats. After analyzing over 12 million companies’ security postures and supporting thousands of M&A transactions, SecurityScorecard has learned that traditional cybersecurity due diligence… Read More

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