Third Party Governance and Risk Management (TPGRM)
Most organisations have both direct and indirect relationships with third parties that are important to fulfilling business functions or operations. The increase in the adoption of new technologies (e.g. cloud based platforms and services) will further accelerate this reliance on third parties to perform critical business functions.
However due to the increasing number of high profile incidents related to third parties, managing third party risk exposures has quickly become a top priority for CISO’s and Risk Officers, as well as regulators. This trend is on the rise and is probably more prevalent today as more organisations become increasingly reliant on their outsourced service providers.
87 % of respondents have faced a disruptive incident with third parties in the last 2-3 years, of which 28 % faced a major disruption and 11 % experienced a complete third party failure.
Deloitte Third Party Governance & Risk Management Global Survey 201649 % of surveyed organisations experienced a data breach caused by one of their third party vendors.
Ponemon Data Risk in the Third-Party Ecosystem 2016 Report