- Let’s face it, Supply Chain Security and Vendor Risk Management is just plain hard. There are a lot of moving pieces – companies, contacts, agreements, SLAs, metrics, reporting, etc. Suppliers also change frequently, since they have their own mergers/acquisitions, get replaced due to price changes or quality issues, new suppliers are added to support new product lines and old vendors go away as their product lines become obsolete. Among all of that, is cyber-security. MSI has a better and faster way forward – an automated way to reduce the churn – a way to get a concise, easy to use and manageable view of the security of your vendors’ security posture. This month, we will show you what we have been doing in secret for some of the largest companies in the world…
- Vendors with good security postures often look the same as vendors with dangerous security postures, on paper at least. You know the drill – review the contracts, maybe they send you an audit or scan report (often aged), maybe they do a questionnaire (if you’re lucky). You get all of this – after you chase them down and hound them for it. You hope they were honest. You hope the data is valid. You hope they are diligent. You hope they stay in the same security posture or improve over time, and not the opposite. You hope for a lot. You just don’t often KNOW, and what most companies do know about their vendors is often quite old in Internet terms, and can be far afield from where their security posture is at the moment. MSI can help here too. This month, we will make our passive assessment tool available to the public for the first time. Leveraging it, you will be able to rapidly, efficiently and definitively get a historic and current view of the security posture of your vendors, without their permission or knowledge, with as frequent updates as you desire. You’ll be able to get the definitive audit of their posture, from the eyes of an attacker, in a variety of formats – including direct data feeds back into your GRC tools. Yes, that’s right – you can easily differentiate between good and bad security AND put an end to data entry and keyboarding sessions. We will show you how…
- Supply chain security via manual processes just won’t scale. That’s why we have created a set of automated tools and services to help organizations do ongoing assessments of their entire supply chain. You can even sort your supply chain vendors by criticality or impact, and assign more or less frequent testing to those groups. You can get written reports, suitable for auditors – or as we wrote above, data feeds back to your GRC tools directly. We can test tens of vendors or thousands of vendors – whatever you need to gain trust and assurance over your supply chain vendors. The point is, we built workflows, methodologies, services and tools that scale to the largest companies on the planet. This month, we will show you how to solve your supply chain security problems.
If you would like a private, sneak peak preview briefing of our research and the work we have done on this issue, please get in touch with your account executive or drop us a line via info (at) microsolved /dot/ com, call us at (614) 351-1237 or click the request a quote button at the top of our website – http://microsolved.com. We’ll be happy to sit down and walk through it with you.
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