After the Pandemic: What the IT World May Look Like
For the last few months, most IT departments have been struggling just to get through various pandemic-related fire drills such as overnight work-from-home infrastructures that need to be put into place and the greatly increased use of video conferencing and other distance collaboration tools. In addition to these challenges, many ... Read More
IoT and Vendors: How To Stay Safe
The internet of things, or IoT, is growing faster than a weed in the summertime. This catch-all name covers everything from your front door security cameras to factory floor control devices, often called the industrial internet of things (IIoT). As this technology expands and everything becomes networked, from our toasters ... Read More
Keeping Systems Safe From Third Parties
Vendors. Supply chain partners. Third parties. Contractors. All are different names for entities that might need access to your corporate networks and systems. But they have one important thing in common: They are outsiders to your company. We are supposed to trust these outsiders to do the work they were ... Read More
How to Design a Vendor Management Process
Whether you’re a small business or a global enterprise, over the last decade or so outsourcing business functions to third-party vendors has become essential to your business operations. Vendors are used in nearly every business process. They provide tech support, back-office and e-commerce platforms, networked and cloud-based applications and networks ... Read More
