Ep. 63 - How to Vet Your Tech Vendors with Nancy Hammervik and Miles Jobgen from CompTIA

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The National Cyber Security Alliance reports that 1 in 5 small businesses have been victims of cyber crime in the last year and that number is growing rapidly as more businesses utilize cloud computing, mobile devices, and store more information online.

Here's what you should consider when choosing vendors/ suppliers to work with. Remember you will be sharing confidential information. This data may be intellectual property, your customer information, your financials, or your employee records.

If you are being cyber smart, if you are protecting your computers, and networks, and programs and data from unintended and unauthorized access, but how do you know the companies you work with are doing the same? How do you make sure your suppliers are securing their computers? What are the things you need to consider to avoid being a victim of a cyber attack if there is a breach within your supply chain?

More and more business are requesting cybersecurity questionnaires to be completed prior to engagement. This is to determine if their data & information is safe in another businesses IT environment.

Managed Service Providers play an important role in keeping your company’s information safe. Choosing one to meet your cybersecurity needs is not an easy task. So this podcast is perfect for you if you are interested in what you should look for when you considering outsourcing all or portion of you Information technology management.

So joining Barb in this episode are Nancy Hammervik and Miles Jobgen from the Computing Technology Industry Association, aka CompTIA to talk about Trustmark certifications surrounding cyber security.

00:00 - 02:29Barb’s intro

02:30 - 05:12Introducing Nancy, Miles and CompTia

05:12 - 09:57What is a security trust mark certification?

09:58 - 11:55 Do you believe this lends credibility to managed service providers?

11:56 - 20:10 Any concerns with people who work with service providers who have expressed zero interest in having a trust mark certification?

20:11 - 24:26 Is it possible to fail your trust mark certification?

24:27 - 25:32 How does a company who outsourced their IT benefit from a company that has a trustmark certification?

25:33 - 28:23 What is the most important thing you have ever learned?

28:24 - 29:45 Barb’s extro