The vendors, partners, business associates, and software developers that most organizations depend on for much of their outsourced operations and support ironically can represent a company’s most challenging, least visible, and most difficult security vulnerabilities to correct. Every cybersecurity framework and regulation focus significant guidance and enforcement effort on companies’ policies and processes to set requirements, audit, and validate risk remediation throughout their data supply chains.
Ankura helps clients design and establish third-party cyber and privacy risk management programs, and we staff project offices with experts who go into the field to help clients gain visibility into the cyber risk posed by their vendors and business associates to help them correct material shortcomings.
Solutions include: