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Ncontracts Acquires Third Party Risk Management Company Venminder

Finovate

With Venminder, firms can manage vendors, track contract data, perform due diligence and oversight, send and score questionnaires, conduct risk assessments, systemically monitor risks across domains, order due diligence assessments on vendor controls, and more.

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SenseOn: Confronting Modern Cyber Risks in Financial Services

The Fintech Times

The severity of the challenge is demonstrated in IBM ’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 , which ranks data breaches in the financial sector as second only to the healthcare industry in terms of costs. However, data breaches constitute only one facet of the risks confronting firms.

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The Uncharted Territory Of M&A Cyber Risks

PYMNTS

One of the largest security challenges of an acquisition stems from the risk exposure an acquiring company faces if it has not fully assessed the cybersecurity strength of its acquisition target. which suffered a data breach last year as the result of a cybersecurity incident at a third-party vendor.

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The Buyers: Consumers, Post-Hacking

PYMNTS

businesses and organizations saw a 40 percent increase in data breaches , bringing its total to 1,093 reported incidents. Just recently, BioCatch won a patent to help detect remote hacker tools with the hopes of catching breaches before they occur. In 2016 alone, U.S.

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PCI Validated P2PE – 3 Years in North America, What Has Changed?

PYMNTS

In 2016, there were 1,093 data breaches according to the Identity Theft Resource Center – a 40% increase over the 2015 data breach number of 781. Malware was the culprit in the multi-million-dollar Home Depot, Target, Wendy’s and PF Chang’s breaches. Malware and its Role in Data Breaches. PCI P2PE Return on Investment.

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Back To Basics For SME Security

PYMNTS

Free data storage services, the report said, may be an irresponsible choice for SMEs, though the report also found that, regardless of the security of the cloud data storage service, employee mistakes are often to blame for data breaches at SMEs. NIST, operating under the U.S. Others, however, are more behavioral.

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What is accounts payable outsourcing?

Nanonets

Organizations dealing with sensitive financial data may be hesitant to use a third-party vendor for their AP processes. So if the provider faces challenges such as security breaches or even bankruptcy, then your company processes could come to an abrupt standstill. Hence they might want to consider AP Automation instead.