You just received a SOC 2 report from a vendor. No findings. Clean opinion.Before you mark that assessment as complete stop. A clean SOC 2 report doesn’t mean your risk assessment is done. It means you finally have enough information to start doing it properly. The Dirty Secret About SOC 2 Scope Here’s what a … Read more
Too many security teams treat a SOC 2 with no findings as a green light. Here’s why that assumption is quietly undermining your third-party risk programme. There’s a shortcut that has become dangerously common in third-party risk management: a vendor provides their SOC 2 report, the reviewing team flicks through it, sees no exceptions, no … Read more
The administrative burden of third-party risk management has driven enterprises to offshore the work for decades. But the real issue was never headcount it was tooling. Third-party risk management from a security perspective is not a new discipline especially in banking and financial services, where regulators have demanded structured vendor oversight for decades. Enterprises in … Read more
Automated scanning tools are great but they’re not the whole story. There’s a smarter, faster way to assess your vendors. Search for “third-party cyber risk management” today and you’ll quickly land on a familiar set of names: SecurityScorecard, BitSight, Black Kite. These automated vulnerability scanning tools have become the go-to answer for security teams looking … Read more