Ways to Mitigate Vendor Risk at Your Healthcare Organization

Using third-party vendors is a standard business strategy that can benefit a healthcare organization in many areas. Utilizing external vendors often brings rewards but isn’t without risk. To manage vendor risk, you complete risk assessments on the vendor, perform due diligence, and identify the inherent risk the vendor presents to your healthcare organization.

To reduce the identified risk that vendor products or services introduce to your organization’s network, environment, and patients, you can apply specific mitigations. This eBook provides ways your healthcare organization can improve security while maintaining the vendor relationship. 

Download this eBook to learn:

• What to consider when segmenting and isolating vendor products/services
• What to do when a vendor uses your hardware or is in your environment
• Situations when you should enable multifactor authentication
• Considerations for security and awareness training
• What to do during audits and a couple controls to include in vendor contracts