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Third-Party Vendor Management Means Managing Your Own Risk
This series presents nine elements of a successful vendor-management program.
Last updated: June 2015
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This series presents nine elements of a successful vendor-management program and a checklist to help you, the privacy pro, to manage an effective program. Sometimes themes can help us remember information, so for that reason, we’ll use the solar system to guide us through this series: Picture your company as the star around which all vendors revolve—outer space was so much more appealing than an oceanic theme where sharks circle.
- Part One: Mercury – Why Have a Vendor Management Program?
- Part Two: Venus – The Internal Elements
- Part Three: Earth – Risk Assessment
- Part Four: Mars – Pain Points
- Part Five: The Cloud
- Part Six: Jupiter – Contract Provisions
- Part Seven: Saturn – Ongoing Monitoring
- Part Eight: Uranus – Data Breaches
- Part Nine: Neptune – Ending the Relationship
- Part Ten: Pluto – A Checklist