Death of the Traditional Security Review

Recent crises have not just exposed the many inefficiencies inherent in traditional security reviews, it has exacerbated them. Enterprises and Vendors, or Buyers and Sellers, had only one choice: adapt. Sales cycles and security reviews were accelerated in a rush to procure cloud services to enable workforces that went 100 percent mobile overnight. There is no going back now. The modern-day security review is dead and the fundamental shift to Proactive Vendor Security is well underway, changing the way organizations approach procurement, vendor on-boarding, and security reviews. Other aspects of vendor risk management and procurement are changing drastically as well. Understand how you can stay ahead of the curve and enable your organization to take advantage of these changes. John has held numerous roles in the third-party space for over the last 15 years, including IT Audit, Risk, Product, and most recently, Partner Success. Conclusions and observations were gathered from past experiences and recent conversations with customers and partners, practitioners, end users, CIOs, and CISOs.