Organizations increasingly rely on vendors for software, cloud services, managed operations and whole outsourced business processes. Outsourcing moves the work but not the accountability. If a payroll provider leaks employee data, the employer still answers to its staff and regulators. Vendor management, sometimes called third-party risk management, is how the organization keeps control of risks it no longer directly operates, across the whole relationship from selection to exit.
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