Are You Practicing Safe Outsourcing?
- Topics:
- Strategic Management Tools
- Tags:
- Backups,
- Security,
- Outsourcing & Subcontracting,
- Outsourcing,
- Management,
- It Operations,
- International Data Group,
- Financial Services,
- Financial Planning,
- Finance,
- ...
- Source:
- IDG (International Data Group)
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Overview: From the executive summary: ‘Unintentional harm to the public can result when companies do not apply rigorous information risk management requirements for selecting a qualified vendor and do not monitor vendors for compliance with contractual requirements. Complex organizations may experience chaos in trying to remotely manage and protect the security and privacy of sensitive information. Therefore, companies need to make sure the vendor has the resources or technologies to create information security safeguards and technologies. The critical infrastructure or backbone of the vendor's location (country) must also have the capacity to handle data protection requirements.’ The paper examines this issue and discusses some ‘best practices’ for safe outsourcing. A related case study is also discussed.
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Format: HTML | Date: Apr 2004 | Pages: 1
