Compass IT Compliance Blog / Vendor Management (4)

MSP Breaches Opening the Door to Further Attacks on Clients

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Is your Managed Service Provider (MSP) protecting yours and your client’s data? Are you regularly assessing your MSP and the rest of your vendors? It is no secret that hackers have gained access to more and larger companies over the past few years, but a new malicious tactic is coming …

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PCI, Service Providers, and You

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As merchants increasingly utilize trusted partners to maintain and manage critical pieces of their business, information technology, and security infrastructure, it becomes necessary to build a program to manage these vendors.

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SolarWinds SUNBURST Hack – And You Thought 2020 Couldn’t Get Any Worse

SolarWinds SUNBURST Hack – And You Thought 2020 Couldn’t Get Any Worse

Co-authored by Derek Morris, Senior Information Technology Security Professional SUNBURST – add this to the list of all the wonders this year has brought. Are you one of the 18,000 customers infected by SUNBURST? Have you been ordered by the US Department of Homeland Security to quara …

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Vendor Risk Management: Third-Party Risk Analysis / Annual Review

Vendor Risk Management: Third-Party Risk Analysis / Annual Review

We live in a world where our interactions with each other are generally benign, observed to be candid at face value, making it easy to take the assurances of success, functionality, and capability of our colleagues and acquaintances as they are meant. Unfortunately, business interacti …

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Blackbaud Breach – Time to Review Your Vendors

Blackbaud Breach – Time to Review Your Vendors

It has recently been reported that Blackbaud, one of the world’s largest providers of education administration, fundraising, and financial management software for nonprofits suffered a ransomware attack back in May of 2020.

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Security Oversight with Managed Service Providers

Security Oversight with Managed Service Providers

The outsourcing of information technology (IT) functions has become incredibly common with businesses, especially among small and medium sized companies. There are many benefits to outsourcing IT. For one, the cost is normally much lower than hiring even a single employee to manage IT …

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