Third Party Risk Task Force News Today

Cybersecurity Collaborative launched this week a task force focused on asset management — a discipline of increasing importance to cybersecurity leaders who wrestle with challenges tied to the growing remote workforce and dispersal of resources to the cloud. To slow the spread of COVID-19, many organizations implemented policies for employees to work from home. This prompted a widespread shift of IT infrastructure to the cloud and into employees’ homes — a shift that many predict...

Recent supply chain attacks prompted cybersecurity professionals, under the auspices of Cybersecurity Collaborative, to stand up a task force focused on minimizing third-party risk. The need for the Third-Party Risk Task Force, which kicked off this week, has been amplified by recent advanced persistent threat attacks that infiltrated corporate and government networks, due to security vulnerabilities in the supply chains. One example, discovered last month, was a supply chain attack that trojan...

April 9, 2021 In Episode 7 of the CISO Stories podcast, Paul Hypki, CISO at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, talks to the Cybersecurity Collaborative’s Todd Fitzgerald about allocating funds to those places where organizations can achieve the maximum risk reduction.