Supplier Security Assessments
A supplier security assessment will help you to identify, reduce and manage the security risks posed by your suppliers to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your organisation’s data and services
Supplier Security Assessments
A supplier security assessment will help you to identify, reduce and manage the security risks posed by your suppliers to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your organisation’s data and services
Identify and reduce the security risks posed by your suppliers
If one of your suppliers were to suffer a data breach, critical technology failure or were not able to perform a critical process it could cause significant financial and reputational damage to your organisation.
Organisations need to be confident that their third-party suppliers have adequate security and resiliency controls in place to protect their customer and organisational data and service provision.
CyberCX’s proactive supplier resiliency program (SRP) will help you to identify, reduce and manage the security risks posed by your suppliers to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your organisation’s data and services.
Test their controls and highlight any risks
Improve your security posture
Conducting supplier security assessments and validation will enable effective information security risk management and improve your overall cyber security posture.
Evaluation against international standards
Maintaining trust and reputation
Enhance your organisation’s reputation by giving customers and business partners confidence that you take information security seriously and have in place robust systems and procedures to safeguard sensitive data.
Scope of Supplier Security Assessment services
CyberCX can develop and implement a full supplier resiliency program that will identify if your suppliers have adequate security controls. We can help you to work with those suppliers to ensure they comply with your contracts and/or service level agreements and the business relationship continues.
CyberCX can design a bespoke supplier resiliency program based on your requirements but typically our supplier assessments include:
- External, internal, wireless and physical penetration tests
- Server configuration reviews and password audits
- Assessment of the supplier’s business continuity capabilities, including incident management plans and their ability to shift work to alternate locations
- Disaster recovery capability assessment and IT testing
- Policy and procedure gap analysis against the ISO 27001, NIST or other standards.
- Assessment of the supplier’s data processing activities against DPA 2018 and GDPR.
We can support you with one-off supplier assessments, and/or manage annual supplier assessments and validation reviews or develop a comprehensive supplier resiliency program for you.
How does it work?
Our supplier security assessment framework consists of three phases, which can be completed on or off-site, depending on your needs:
1. Assessment
A comprehensive assessment of your suppliers’ current security is carried out, to identify any gaps and issues. A report is produced which gives an overall risk and security maturity rating along with full details of what remedial action is needed.
2. Remediation
The supplier completes the recommended corrective actions, as identified in the assessment. CyberCX can help provide guidance and advice, where required.
3. Validation
We check that the recommended remedial actions have been effectively implemented and re-assess the supplier’s risk profile based on this.
Our supplier assessments are also supported by a full governance model. This can provide regular reporting against key metrics, which will help you to track progress at both an individual supplier and whole program level.
Why Supplier Security Assessments with CyberCX?
We’ll assess the strength of the security controls your suppliers have in place to ensure your organisation is adequately protected and prepared.
Our experts will assess and validate the effectiveness of the controls they have in place to give you a clear overall picture of your third-party supplier’s risk profile, posture and maturity.
Our experienced information security experts have completed a wide-range of supplier security resiliency programs for clients around the world, using our established framework.
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