Tag Archives: vendor risk management

Information Shield Adds New Vendor Cyber Risk Management Features

Automate Vendor Risk Management

On February 22nd we introduced new features to streamline Vendor Cyber Risk Assessment and Management. These features are now integrated within ComplianceShield Enterprise. We are pleased to introduce these new innovations to our clients and hope to save them many hours of work designing and implementing a vendor risk assessment program. The formal Press Release […]

Simplify Compliance with new ACC Security Controls

Attorneys Create New Control Framework The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), which represents over 42,000 in-house counsel across 85 countries, recently released a new control model to help organizations interact with outside parties when dealing with sensitive information.  This is among the many new business domains areas where vendor risk management has become a key issue. […]

Security Policies Key to HIPAA BA Compliance

In January the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the much-awaited final updates to the HIPAA Security, Privacy and Enforcement Rules. These updates, known as the “Omnibus Rule” were required by the HITECH Act and have been in proposal form since 2010.  The new law incorporates some major changes in the HIPAA security […]

Managing Vendor Security Risks Under HiTECH

Assessing the risk of third-party vendors has been a growing problem for compliance management.  Because of the growing number of data breaches related to third-parties, regulators have been focusing on the inherent risks of outsourcing.   Within the financial services industry, this has long been accomplished via a SAS70 (now SSAE16) type audit. Within the U.S. [...]