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    RE: Due Diligence for Federal Government Entities

    By: Anonymous Member , yesterday
    Posted in: Due Diligence and Ongoing Monitoring

    This message was posted by a user wishing to remain anonymous First, I'm not sure what you mean by "level classification," but I do empathize with the struggle that comes with trying to treat ...

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    RE: vendors and cloud software assessment (AWS)

    By: Branan Cooper , 3 days ago
    Posted in: Due Diligence and Ongoing Monitoring

    Yes, I'd request as much information as reasonably available. Certainly, all of the things like a reputation risk check, history of data breaches, articles of incorporation all come to mind - ...

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    Due Diligence for Federal Government Entities

    By: kouadjo bini , 4 days ago
    Posted in: Due Diligence and Ongoing Monitoring

    We are reevaluating our vendors level classification and I would to know how are other agencies treating federal government entities like Fanny Mae, VA, or your State Housing authorities. These ...

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    RE: Small Vendor Security assessments

    By: Robert Warja , 5 days ago
    Posted in: Risk Assessments

    I'm curious as to what even defines "smaller vendors" in your world? Are you referring to yearly spend and if so, would you mind sharing what that amount is? We use $5,000 as our first threshold. ...

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    Law Firms

    By: Anonymous Member , 24 days ago
    Posted in: Policy, Program and Procedures

    This message was posted by a user wishing to remain anonymous How are you addressing law firms? Given law firms and their individual lawyers are subject to binding ethical and legal ...

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    Vendor Requests from Sales Side

    By: Michelle Sickinger , 24 days ago
    Posted in: Policy, Program and Procedures

    Good Morning Think Tank Members, Curious if anyone has a good slide show/info piece that they can share for the "sales side" of Vendor Requests? Looking for material that will help explain ...

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