You can and must excel at your security assessments without EXCEL spreadsheets
In this age of supply chain interconnectedness, a large organization may have hundreds of third parties
with access to its physical premises, IT networks and data.
Your organization may have a secure IT infrastructure, but third parties can make it vulnerable to
breaches, which often result in corporate data theft, brand damage and hefty government fines.
Consequently, you must conduct risk assessment audits of these suppliers, consultants, contractors,
service providers and partners.
You must also run similar surveys in-house to ensure your employees and departments are complying
with your company’s policies and procedures, and with external rules and regulations.
These business process control assessments are conducted via surveys and they evaluate areas of
an organization such as its business continuity plans, physical and environmental security tools and
practices, operational risk safeguards and human resources procedures.
However, the traditional way of conducting these risk assessment surveys -- emailing questionnaires
and tracking responses on a spreadsheet -- no longer cuts it.
You must automate these polls to ensure the process is agile, accurate, comprehensive, centralized,
scalable and uniform across your organization.
SAQ Use Cases
Here are six scenarios where you
need cloud-based, automated risk
assessments of third parties and
internal staff:
1. Siloed, fragmented process
2. Inefficient manual approach
3. Daunting internal assessments
4. Overwhelming employee
training requirements
5. Mounting regulatory burden
6. Fast-changing vendor landscape
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Scenario #1
LACK OF A STANDARD
THIRD-PARTY ASSESSMENT
PROCESS
SAQ Use Cases
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