All Third-Party Risk articles

  • Article

    Best practices in third-party risk management

    2018-10-17T12:30:00Z

    NAVEX Global’s fourth annual third-party risk management benchmark report offers risk and compliance officers a glimpse at how their third-party risk management programs stack up against their peers.

  • Blog

    What is a business relationship?

    2018-07-25T08:30:00Z

    The Man From FCPA ponders the FCPA considerations of electric-car company Tesla putting the squeeze on its suppliers by asking them to refund monies Tesla had paid to them, as far back as 2016.

  • Blog

    GE, third-party risk, and Spotify’s IPO

    2018-01-26T09:30:00Z

    General Electric is under investigation by the SEC, Spotify is raising eyebrows over IPO tactics, and Thailand’s fishing industry could spell out big third-party risk complications.

  • Blog

    LockPath, SecurityScorecard partnership streamlines vendor risk management

    2017-04-07T12:45:00Z

    LockPath, a provider of governance, risk management and compliance solutions, and SecurityScorecard, a security-rating platform, announced a new partnership to streamline and strengthen how organizations manage vendor and third-party risk.

  • Article

    Addressing third-party information security risks in 2017

    2017-01-24T14:45:00Z

    The latest installment of the GRC Illustrated Series from Compliance Week and OCEG discusses ways to circumvent a cyber-breach via third-party risk management.

  • Blog

    PwC proposes SOC 2+ to dig into third-party risk

    2016-05-24T20:30:00Z

    PwC has developed a framework to add to the assurance provided by an SOC 2 report (an AICPA report focused on controls around security, processing integrity, and privacy). PwC calls it an “SOC 2+” approach, building on the SOC 2 reporting principles by allowing a more independent, standardized assessment. Tammy ...

  • Blog

    The Macro-Economic Trends Tearing Through Third-Party Risk

    2015-11-23T10:30:00Z

    Image: Monday’s news of the merger between Pfizer and Allergan, one of the largest corporate deals ever, is the high-water market for a huge year of M&A activity. That M&A craze poses huge challenges to compliance officers for third-party risk, from IT systems to count third parties (harder than you ...

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    Are Your Business Partners Letting the Hackers In?

    2014-11-25T15:00:00Z

    For Target, it was a heating and air conditioning company. At a large oil company it was a nearby Chinese restaurant. Hackers increasingly use third-party relationships to gain access to computer networks and steal data. The trend means that companies need to conduct even better due diligence on third-party relationships ...