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Vendor management: The key to productive partnerships

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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

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

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

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By providing an open source solution, were removing barriers to entry and empowering organizations to build robust security programs regardless of their size or resources, said Lewis Carhart. We believe that strong security practices shouldnt be a luxury that only well-funded companies can afford.

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Downer’s digital journey to deliver consistency to customers

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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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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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When mistakes happen, it can be serious and this was a very serious incident, says Jody Westby, vice-chair of AMCs US Technology Policy Committee.

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10 hottest IT jobs for salary growth in 2023

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Skills such as software engineering, architecture, cloud, and program management are highly sought after as more companies explore creating both internal and external applications and solutions. Here are the 10 IT roles that have earned the biggest bumps in pay for 2023, according to salary data from Dice.