Deb Stonikas asks about security and third party vendors
Deb Stonikas: Last week’s headline news: ScottTrade data breach exposes 20,000 customer accounts. Their response? 20,000 customer accounts were exposed when a Third Party vendor uploaded a file to a server without proper security protocols. I guess this is just another example of how third party vendors never make headline news. But more importantly, what I want to talk about today is the NIST framework. In January of 2017, the NIST framework was updated to include supply chain risk management for security. Can you elaborate on those updates and tell us what’s happening now? [Read more…]
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