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January 17, 2024

10 Tips for Setting Cybersecurity Goals for Your Business

Cybersecurity can be overwhelming for decision-makers in an organization. There are so many threats that can impact your business that keeping track of them all, and coming up with ways to mitigate them can seem like a daunting task. Fortunately, you don’t need to be a cybersecurity… Read More

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January 17, 2024

4 Vendor Management Challenges – and How To Conquer Them

Since the massive Target data security breach in December 2013, third-party cybersecurity stopped being an afterthought and started becoming one of the top security priorities for CISOs and risk departments. As a response, third-party risk management (TPRM) underwent a transformation in early 2014, and it continues to evolve… Read More

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January 17, 2024

How to Use the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework to Assess Vendor Security

Your vendors are likely a big part of your business. As partners, vendors provide cloud services, store sensitive data, and deliver other mission-critical services. Unfortunately, vendors can also provide a backdoor for cyber criminals who want to get their hands on your data,… Read More

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January 10, 2024

How to Write Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Policies and Procedures

As organizations set out to mature their cybersecurity programs, vendor risk management (VRM) is a primary risk mitigation strategy. However, managing third-party risk becomes overwhelming, especially as they incorporate more cloud-based vendors to help streamline business operations. While monitoring used to be based on a “trust but verify” mentality, the modern… Read More

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January 10, 2024

7 Essential Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Tools

With 44% of data breaches caused by a third party and only 15% of vendors disclosing that a breach had taken place, it’s no surprise that many organizations are prioritizing investment in their third-party risk management (TPRM) programs. In fact, 74% say their organizations urgently need to make TPRM more consistent across… Read More

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January 10, 2024

10 Common Cyber Attack Vectors and How to Avoid Them

Cybercriminals never stop evolving their tactics. A decade ago, malware sites posed the biggest threat to most organizations. Today, sophisticated ransomware attacks target enterprises daily, and threat actors have developed increasingly creative attack methods to breach corporate defenses. Read More

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January 10, 2024

4 Best Practices for Effective Reputational Risk Management

Regardless of size and industry, organizations must manage their reputation carefully. A strong reputation attracts new business, while a damaged reputation drives potential customers away and leads to financial losses. This reality has prompted many organizations to invest in comprehensive reputational risk management programs. When companies… Read More

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January 10, 2024

The Top 7 Cyberattacks on U.S. Government: A closer look at the evolving landscape of cybersecurity

In a world where ones and zeros are the new battleground, these threats, cyberattacks have become a significant threat to governments worldwide. The United States, with its vast array of government agencies and critical infrastructure, is no exception. Cybersecurity threats that impact the public sector range from state-sponsored attacks to financially… Read More

Public Sector

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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

Services

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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

Attack Surface Management

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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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