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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

CIO

What is vendor management? Vendor management helps organizations take third-party vendor relationships from a passive business transaction to a proactive collaborative partnership. While working with IT vendors can help ease the burden on IT, it also raises concerns, especially around data, risk, and security.

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Workday to acquire external workforce management startup VNDLY for $510M

TechCrunch

“VNDLY is at the forefront of the vendor management industry with an innovative and intuitive approach. The powerful combination of our technologies and talent will help customers better manage their evolving workforce dynamics, helping them keep pace with today’s changing world of work,” Schlampp said in a statement.

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Mitigating cyber risks: the essential role of collaboration for Middle East organizations

CIO

The panelists identified three high-risk functions that organizations in the Middle East must prioritize—credential management, vendor management, and patch management. These areas, often neglected or poorly managed, can expose businesses to serious vulnerabilities.

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Grand Bank's Success Story: Enhancing Vendor Management with Ivanti's External Attack Surface Management Solution

Ivanti

Forrester highlights that EASM is crucial for thorough due diligence, especially during mergers and acquisitions, where uncovering hidden vendor assets is vital for assessing risk. It offers an automated, comprehensive vendor management approach that continuously monitors vendors' attack surfaces, assesses and mitigates risks.

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Why CIOs must lead the charge on ESG – and why enterprise architecture is the key

CIO

As research suggests, the potential benefits of generative AI (genAI) adoption far outweigh the challenges, making it imperative for businesses to adopt a strategic approach toward scaling their AI implementation while observing guidelines for ESG compliance. Compliance and governance. ESG compliance. Resource utilization.

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Germany goes full throttle into the cloud

CIO

The decisive factors are responsibility for the transformation, mostly locating centrally the downstream management of the new IT operating models, and the inclusion of important departments such as legal, compliance and risk management. Around 13% of users say they’ll pursue a rigid cloud-only strategy in the future.

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Why CIOs should embrace the potential of data and analytics enablement platforms for a brighter future

CIO

But the most advanced data and analytics platforms should be able to: a) ingest risk assessment data from a multitude of sources; b) allow analytics teams in and outside an organization to permissibly collaborate on aggregate insights without accessing raw data; and c) provide a robust data governance structure to ensure compliance and auditability.

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