If you are choosing something bigger — a car, say, or an insurance provider — you go further. You might read user feedback and professional reviews online. (Of course, some ratings may be biased, but it’s unlikely that all of them will be. The truth will come out sooner or later, even if a vendor […]
Nine technology companies—Uber, Docker, Dropbox, Palantir, Twitter, Square, Atlassian, GoDaddy, and Airbnb—have recently founded the Vendor Security Alliance (VSA), an independent, non-profit coalition that aims to help member companies evaluate or assess the security and privacy of third-party providers whom they heavily rely on and even entrust their users most important data with. They also […]
When you hire a new organization for some IT work, do you really know about their vendor security practices? Well, if you are Google, you certainly do. Before anyone can get business from Google, they are asked to fill out an extensive questionnaire detailing their security posture. While you probably don’t want to create something […]
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