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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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6 best practices for better vendor management

CIO

And how well an IT leader deals with and orchestrates vendor relationships can mean the difference between a well-organized and efficient IT operation and a mess that costs an organization millions of dollars without delivering positive results. Here are several key tips for making the most of vendor relationships.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

Several hospitals canceled surgeries as well, and banks, airports, public transit systems, 911 centers, and multiple government agencies including the Department of Homeland Security also suffered outages. Hes not the only one who wants to see government action. The overall cost was estimated at $5.4

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

Ivanti

To address this, they partnered with Latest Solutions to implement Ivantis External Attack Surface Management (EASM). This provided Grand Bank with improved visibility into vendor security, streamlined onboarding and improved their overall cybersecurity program.

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Downer’s digital journey to deliver consistency to customers

CIO

We have heads of IT that report to me in each unit, and we also support strategic programs of work, all with the aim to utilize innovation so we make it seamless to do business with our customers. On aligning the overall IT strategy: The Downer Digital strategy has three overarching pillars and 12 strategic programs of work.

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Bubba AI, Inc. is launching Comp AI to help 100,000 startups get SOC 2 compliant by 2032

CIO

is building a comprehensive solution for these organizations to easily integrate compliance workflows and build their own customized processes through an open-source alternative to existing GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) automation platforms. Bubba AI, Inc.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO

That included setting up a governance framework, building an internal tool that was safe for employees to use, and developing a process for vetting gen AI embedded in third-party systems. Proactive governance The governance framework came first. So DFCI took three main steps to deploy gen AI in a controlled way.