Risk Assessments

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About Third Party Risk Assessments: The risk assessment process is a fundamental foundation of a well-managed third party risk program. A disciplined approach and repeatable process can lay a firm basis for better informed due diligence, structured ongoing monitoring and meaningful impact in mitigating concerns introduced by your organization's third parties. Taking it a step further, understanding how to mitigate inherent vendor risk is crucial to determining if the benefits of the outsourced product or service outweigh the risk posed.

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    RE: Do you use a Financial Threshold for which vendors will be reviewed?

    By: Mark Eden , yesterday

    During the onboarding process, we look at the use case and determine the Risk to the product or service as well as the impact should something go wrong. Business continuity is fine but again, it is part of the equation. Access to confidential information ... More

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    RE: Do you use a Financial Threshold for which vendors will be reviewed?

    By: Anonymous Member , yesterday

    This message was posted by a user wishing to remain anonymous I would concur with Keith's input. I would never base an inherent risk scoring on spend. I would gather the information though and utilize it as a trigger for a financial review as someone ... More

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    RE: Do you use a Financial Threshold for which vendors will be reviewed?

    By: Anonymous Member , yesterday

    This message was posted by a user wishing to remain anonymous Been following this thread, and there is a lot of good info here. However, if you have a policy such as no NPI/PII or proprietary company data is shared, the services are not critical to ... More

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    RE: Do you use a Financial Threshold for which vendors will be reviewed?

    By: Anonymous Member , yesterday

    This message was posted by a user wishing to remain anonymous Hi Keith, That article you linked is pretty scary. Thanks for sharing. What would you recommend as a better approach if the financial spend isn't the route to take? Wouldn't it be potentially ... More

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    RE: Do you use a Financial Threshold for which vendors will be reviewed?

    By: Keith Koo , yesterday

    I would never base importance on financial spend. When I give presentations on this topic I often give two of my favorite examples: 1) In the tech world, many major tech companies use a service that costs ~$50K/year to file corporate taxes. It seems ... More

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