Business partners.
Safe and secure.
Build a strong supply chain.
After all the regulations, cyber incidents, and growth, your business will be incredibly strong in the face of natural disasters, cyber threats, and technology failures. Trusted industry partners pose an incredible threat to the secure environment you have built.
N Point Strategies Security Advisors know that the vendors, suppliers, and contractors your teams depend on provide services, software and boots on the ground that are imperative to your business and we will work with them, as an extension of your business, to assure security is the same level of priority for them as it is for you.
Vendor security reviews
Understanding the foundational risks that vendors bring into your business is important. The data vendors handle and the physical and digital access they are granted into your environment all carry risk. We bring real use-cases, understandable scenarios, and top threats to the table when we discuss supply chain management and build a process with your team that assesses the security of each business partner.
Start with stronger contracts
Every relationship we enter starts out well. Unfortunately, long-term relationships, personal or business, have complexities and problems. Contracts may not solve all problems, but they provide ground rules, expectations, and obligations for both parties so that navigating those future problems or even separation can be done gracefully and courteously. Contract Review is your business’ opportunity to review these expectations, obligations and services level agreements (SLAs) and adjust them to fit your legal requirements, technology, and security terms.
N Point Strategies will help you:
- Identify gaps and terms that cannot be met
- Add clauses to protect your people and technology
- Define physical security access terms
- Meet cybersecurity requirements
- Set deconversion terms
- Provide recommendations on verbiage
Working with legal
While we leave the legal terms up to your legal team, we frequently partner with legal teams to assure adjustments, changes, and additions to contracts meet the requirements necessary in the event the relationship changes or is severed. After all, your business may grow, merge or products and services change. Your vendors go through the same life cycle process, and we want your contract to have a way to work through these changes without causing business interruptions to your customers, members, and employees.
Keeping up with advancement
Sometimes the best new technology and advancements utilizing current technology comes with a business partner. N Point Strategies Advisors can design a Third-Party Security Questionnaire that is understood by even your least technical teams. We know that vendors provide some of the most important support to your business and that may be services outside of IT. Our team has experience talking service providers through security basics and assessing options to reduce their risk to your business.
Ready for a straightforward conversation?
Talk With An Advisor and tell us what you’re facing. We’ll help you map the next best step.
