Risk Management Blog and Articles

January 28, 2020

Data Privacy Day: 3 ways to keep third-party data exposure under control

January 28 is Data Privacy Day, an international effort to empower users and encourage businesses to ‘respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust.’ In an increasingly data-driven world, you need to make sure your company is going the extra mile to protect your customers and users. That means keeping an eye on your third-parties that might have access to Personal Identifiable Information (PII).
January 23, 2020

Risk Management Dashboard and KRI Examples

Learn how a third party vendor risk dashboard provides insights to understand your risk environment and make data-driven decisions for TPRM.
January 16, 2020

7 Questions for a Vendor Risk Assessment

Third party risks continue to be a serious cybersecurity threat, so properly assessing a vendor is paramount to any risk management strategy. According to Gartner, 71% of organizations reported their network contains more vendors than it did three years before. This number is expected to grow even larger in the next few years.
January 13, 2020

ThirdPartyTrust raises an additional $4.45M to help enterprises manage their third-party risk

ThirdPartyTrust, a network-based third-party risk management platform that allows enterprises and third-parties to simplify third-party risk processes, today announced a $4.45M seed round led by Capital Midwest Fund, a Milwaukee-based venture capital firm and Cultivation Capital, a St. Louis-based venture capital firm. ThirdPartyTrust has raised $5.55M in funding to date.
January 9, 2020

Vendor Inherent Risk and What it Means to Your Third Party Risk Management

Inherent risk takes into account how a company is using their third-parties and what risk do they pose to the organization. Here's how to calculate it.