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Vendor Contract Management

Vendor Cybersecurity

When dealing with your critical vendors, it's necessary to ensure that all parties know what is expected of them and what the dealbreakers are in the relationship. Learn 4 best practices of critical vendor contract management in this podcast.

4 Best Practices for Critical Vendor Contract Management

Learn best practices that should be included in your third-party risk management program to ensure you keep your organization protected from data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents.

Drafting Cybersecurity Requirements Into the Vendor Contract

Anyone who is involved in vendor risk management knows the intricacies of the various tasks.  In this podcast, learn tips and common ways you can utilize vendor risk management software to streamline your processes.

How Vendor Risk Management Software Streamlines Your Program

If your organization is in a regulated industry, you should anticipate regular examinations. It's good to review your regulators website to become familiar with their exam process, classification of issues, etc. In this podcast, learn common exam findings and next steps.

Common Third-Party Risk Management Findings in Exams and Next Steps

For many organizations, managing third parties throughout the entire relationship can be challenging. Utilizing the third-party risk management lifecycle can help. Learn more in this podcast.

The Lifecycle Approach to Third-Party Risk Management

FFIEC's Cybersecurity Assessment Tool

There are three vendor management models that we typically see: centralized, decentralized and a hybrid approach. These allow the vendor risk manager to set standards while allowing for communication through the relationship manager and on to the vendor.

The 3 Vendor Risk Management Frameworks

We all hope to never experience a breach at our organization, but if it does happen, do you know what to do? You can minimize the chance of it happening again by using those mistakes to improve your third party risk management program. Listen to Third Party Thursday now for 4 best practices.

4 Best Practices to Take Away During a Breach

In this podcast we’ll discuss four important vendor risk management frequently asked questions for beginners. You'll learn what vendor risk management is, why it’s important, who is involved and how vendor risk management is completed.

4 Important Vendor Risk Management FAQs for Beginners

New cyber threats are constantly emerging, and it can be difficult to identify and manage them.  It's an essential practice to keep your organization and its customer protected from cybersecurity risks. Learn more in this podcast.

6 Best Practices For Managing Third-Party Cybersecurity Risk

You need to protect your organization by reviewing your vendor’s cybersecurity posture to know if they are a weak link when it comes to protecting important data. Gain a better understanding of what specific items you need to look for in your vendor’s cybersecurity plan with this 90-second podcast.

Is Your Vendor's Cybersecurity Your Weak Link? Avoid the Horror

There are important requests you need to include in all of your vendor contract negotiations. These 5 will help set your organization up for success. Find out what they are by listening to this podcast.

5 Requests to Always Negotiate into a Vendor Contract

To be successful in vendor contract management you have to be effective in your negotiation efforts. To help you better manage this stage in the vendor contract process, listen to this week’s 90-second podcast for the top tips our experts recommend.

Top 10 Vendor Contract Negotiation Tips

If you have well-developed vendor contracts, then you are setting your organization up for success when it comes to vendor oversight. Find out the top three reasons why your vendor contracts directly affect your level of oversight.

Vendor Oversight Strength Depends on the Contract

Venminder has a team of due diligence experts who can significantly reduce your vendor management workload. Venminder also has a software solution to organize, track and report findings to Senior Management, the Board of Directors and, ultimately, the examining bodies.

Drafting Cybersecurity Requirements Into the Vendor Contract

Third-Party Risk Education