Understanding Supply Chain and Third-Party Risk in Cybersecurity

Compliance isn’t a back-office formality—it’s a strategic driver of growth, innovation, and organizational protection. When woven into daily operations, it elevates resilience, transparency, and trust. This week, we focus on how strategic compliance turns risk into actionable insight. With strong integrity, smart monitoring, and proactive governance, forward-thinking organizations stay ahead of regulatory complexity and sharpen their competitive edge. #StrategicCompliance #RiskManagement #CorporateGovernance #CCTechET #cybersecurity

Are you a vendor or supply chain partner connected to F5? When a partner is breached, your exposure multiplies overnight. CISOs, CIOs, and CEOs now face a new priority. They now need to ensure real-time visibility into vendor risk exposures and potential attack chains. In the latest blog, we decode how the F5 incident unfolded, what it means for your supply-chain integrity, and how smart organizations are rethinking vendor risk management to protect trust, continuity, and brand reputation. Read Here: https://lnkd.in/d_2ZAeE7 #VendorRiskManagement #ThirdPartyRiskManagement #TPRM #SupplyChainRisk #VendorRisk #F5Breach #F5DataBreach #CyberSecurity #ProactiveSecurity #CISO #CEO #CMO #CIO #CTO

💡 Compliance Challenges for the Modern CISO: Why Gaps Persist Compliance is fundamental for CISOs because it ensures organisations meet legal, regulatory, and industry standards reducing risks of cyberattacks, penalties, and reputational damage, while building trust with customers and partners. Despite robust systems and solutions, significant gaps remain due to fast-changing regulations, legacy IT limitations, fragmented tools, insufficient training, inconsistent documentation, and lack of cross-team integration. These gaps leave organisations exposed to threats and liabilities, underscoring the need for a strategic and adaptive compliance approach. If these challenges resonate with your experience, reach out to Quantain Solutions for a discussion on how tailored solutions can help you bridge the compliance gap and add measurable value to your security program. #CyberSecurity #CISO #RiskManagement #Compliance #CyberResilience #SecurityLeadership

Compliance often takes a back seat until a breach or audit exposes the gaps. A proactive and adaptive compliance framework is no longer optional, it’s essential for resilience and trust.

🔐 Understanding risk is the first step to managing it. At Securicom, we help businesses see both the inherent risk — the natural level of exposure before any controls — and the residual risk — what remains after we implement safeguards. For example: • Inherent risk: Your customer data could be targeted by cybercriminals. • Residual risk: After we implement access controls, encryption, and monitoring, a small risk may still remain, but it’s manageable and visible to leadership. By identifying both, our vCISO service ensures your business makes informed decisions, aligns security with business goals, and reduces exposure — all while staying compliant. Risk isn’t eliminated, but with Securicom, it’s measured, managed, and under control. 📧 Email us today: sales@securicom.co.za #Cybersecurity #vCISO #RiskManagement #Compliance #BusinessGrowth

The difference between good security and verified security? ISO 27001. This isn’t just compliance; it’s a blueprint for resilience. When governance, people, and technology align, your security posture becomes a measurable, auditable advantage. Ready to elevate trust, reduce risk, and prove it to customers and regulators? Arpit Garg Prasen P. Jitendra Khimavat Narayanan Rajendran #ISO27001 #InfoSec #CyberSecurity #Audit #RiskManagement #Compliance #ISMS #GRC #SecurityLeadership

MSPs: your clients aren’t just asking “can you fix it?”—they’re asking “are we safe?” 👀 We wanted to share this piece we found by Brian Blakley lays out how MSPs can evolve from ticket takers to true risk advisors by focusing on: • Vulnerability management: visibility, context, communication ✅ • Compliance as a trust framework (CIS, NIST, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2) ✅ • Executive-friendly reporting that ties controls to business outcomes ✅ If you’re looking to shift conversations from uptime to risk reduction—and grow strategic, higher-margin relationships—this is a must-read. Dive in and share your takeaways with us 👇 https://hubs.la/Q03S3tSQ0 #MSP #RiskManagement #Cybersecurity #VulnerabilityManagement #Compliance

Why ISO 27001 Is Good for Business: 1️⃣ Be audit-ready: Certification shows regulators (and clients) that you’re serious about security. 2️⃣ Reduce operational risk: The framework helps prevent avoidable breaches and incidents. 3️⃣ Win client trust: Security is a dealbreaker in many procurement processes. 4️⃣ Secure your supply chain: Extend your standards to third-party providers. Read more: https://lnkd.in/exnyND-K #Cybersecurity #Cybersecurityawareness #ISO27001 #InformationSecurityManagement #ISMS

Third-party vendors are a critical component of your business, but there is a price to these relationships. Each vendor introduces potential risks, and often are not held to the same security standards and practices as your organisation, making them an attractive target for adversaries to gain access to your network and data without you knowing it. If you want to: • Respond quickly to third-party risks with real-time alerts and context to mitigate potential damage • Reduce complexity with automated data collection and analysis to alleviate manual workloads • Improve decision-making with actionable insights to make informed decisions • Report on overall third-party risk or vendor-specific risk with easy-to-understand assessments. To discover more about threat intelligence and in particular third-party risk intelligence, talk to one of our relationship director’s today - https://ow.ly/XfRS50Xfyyq #ThirdPartyRisk #CyberSecurity

G-R-C is NOT a three-letter acronym. It's a complete operating system for your business. * Governance: The WHY * Risk: The HOW (and WHERE) * Compliance: The PROOF Check out this amazing visual that maps out the entire flow, from Statutory Regulations to a Resilient Organization. Save this chart as a reminder that every Administrative, Physical, and Technical Control contributes to the end goal of a secure, responsible enterprise. Which pillar (Governance, Risk, or Compliance) do you think organizations struggle with most today? Let me know! 👇 #GRC #Security #BusinessStrategy #ComplianceMatters #Cybersecurity #NIST