It Takes a 3rd Party to Stop 3rd-Party Risk: How MSPs Protect You From Your Partners – Nick Ellsmore – CFH #5
It sounds ironic, maybe even a little paradoxical, but it might just take hiring third party to help an organization assess and mitigate the risk posed by their other third-party partners. For organizations that cannot or prefer not to spearhead this task internally, MSSPs can provide a scalable and consistent third-party risk assessment program that yields insightful, enforceable and actionable recommendations. This segment will examine the marketable benefits of having MSSPs evaluate third-party partnerships that exist outside of their clients’ organizational boundaries, plus best practices when conducting outsourced risk assessments, and the latest trends in third-party risk that MSSPs are observing.
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Nick Ellsmore is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Consulting and Professional Services at Trustwave, leading the global team providing strategic advisory services to clients along with the elite SpiderLabs penetration testing and incident response teams. With over 20 years of experience in delivering strategic cybersecurity advice for clients throughout the Asia Pacific, Nick has started, built and sold multiple cyber businesses. Nick is an advisor to Universities and cyber startups and is a published author on the topic of cybersecurity.
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