Vendor Management Services
Protect Your Business as You Outsource
Is your business dependent on third-party companies? RCS keeps those connections secure.
Strategic Vendor Management Services
Outsourcing and cloud infrastructure have become the norm for businesses of all sizes. Critical business services like payroll, billing, human resources, and enterprise resource planning are trusted to third party vendors. Businesses like yours leverage the immediacy and flexibility of the cloud to deliver services that normally would be handled in house. While these relationships are beneficial and convenient to your business, they introduce networks that you don’t control, opening up new avenues of risk. How can you be sure that your vendors operate secure networks? And what about their vendors?
RCS Secure helps you manage this vendor supply chain through our comprehensive vendor management services. We help you understand your vendors through the lens of cybersecurity. This means initial evaluations of your vendors’ cybersecurity stance and an ongoing risk management program that grades each vendor. Vendor management is a continually evolving process and needs to be incorporated into every cybersecurity strategy. We make that happen.
We believe that any business can confidently use the latest technologies, safely and securely, especially with a trusted IT partner that can guide them. Learn more about us, meet our leadership team, or check out our blog to discover how RCS makes security a priority.
Remove the burden from your in-house IT staff
We Simplify Strategic Vendor Management
Though vendor management is a critical function of your cybersecurity, few companies have internal procedures to handle it. Even if your business has a vendor qualification process, chances are that a cyber risk analysis is not part of it. The more vendors you have, the larger your cyber footprint. RCS acts as an extension of your IT team that prioritizes vendor management.
How Does RCS Keep You Safe?
Effective Cybersecurity Vendor Management Means Solid Best Practices
Our vendor risk management services focus on real-world threats that can come from your relationships with various vendors. Our process comes down to four important principles:
- Assess risk from individual vendors – We categorize vendors, and after an initial investigation, assess their ability to keep their own systems safe. This allows us to determine which vendors pose the highest risk. This assessment also includes their own vendors and possible threats.
- Define key performance indicators – Vendors come and go, but the most beneficial relationships are ones that are maintained long-term. Since vendor risks become your risks, we monitor and score each vendor on an ongoing basis.
- Establish clear expectations – Vendor management programs must be operated with complete transparency at the beginning of a business relationship. It must be understood that your business takes cyber security seriously and you expect vendors to approach it the same way.
