3rd Party Risk Primer, the A, B, Cs of 3rd party risk programs

3rd Party Risk Primer:

3^rd party risk is not a new topic in the Security industry, but as organizations have shored up their defense’s our adversaries are looking for softer targets to exploit our networks and assets. We have witnessed more and more activity moving to the Cloud, and the increased dissolving of “the perimeter”.

Our organizations have to give additional attention to the security posture of partner’s and in some cases their “partner’s partner”.

Chris Patteson from RSA’s Risk Transformation Office will cover the basics of 3^rd party risk management and how to more towards maturing your program.

Speaker Bio: 

Chris Patteson has more than two decades experience as a practitioner, leader, and innovator within Governance Risk and Compliance and Integrated Risk Management in the manufacturing, technology, and logistics sectors. Prior to joining RSA, he managed a team of data scientists and application developers to build new methods, models, and architectures for managing fraud and cargo security for a global logistics organization. Chris continues to drive innovation in advanced data modeling techniques and creating actionable intelligence for managing risk.

Chris is an Industrial Engineer and holds an MBA in Strategic Management. His current research lies in security architectures related to risk systems and risk data science. His work in the domain led to a patent for Methods, Systems, and Devices for Detecting and Isolating Device Posing Security Threats.