Category: Vendor Risk & Management

Guidance on vendor due diligence, third-party risk, supplier governance, contract performance and resilient technology supply chains. Covers the evidence worth requesting before signing, how to assess a supplier’s own supply chain including software bills of materials, and what ongoing monitoring looks like once a contract is running. Written for Australian organisations carrying obligations under APRA CPS 230, the SOCI Act, or their own board risk appetite.

Privileged access management procurement in Australia: what to require from a PAM vendor

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Privileged access is the smallest population of accounts in an organisation and the largest share of its risk. A domain administrator, a cloud root account, a service account with standing database rights: each one collapses the distance between an attacker landing on a workstation and an attacker owning the environment. Most Australian organisations already know […]

Software licence renewals in Australia: running a renewal as a procurement event

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Most enterprise software agreements are not lost in a competitive process. They are lost at renewal, in the six weeks before an expiry date, against a quote that arrived without warning and a vendor who knows exactly how little time is left. The purchase itself was governed. The renewal, which commits far more money over […]

How to manage procurement risk in IT and cybersecurity

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Procurement risk is the risk that the buying process itself produces the wrong outcome: the wrong provider, the wrong scope, or a contract that cannot be defended later. It is distinct from delivery risk. A project can be run well and still fail because the decision that started it was made on incomplete information. What […]

What is vendor due diligence?

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Vendor due diligence explained: what gets checked before contract, how it differs from a security questionnaire, and what evidence to ask for.

Vendor and Supplier Risk Management for Enterprise Procurement

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A structured vendor and supplier risk pathway for enterprise procurement. What is enterprise vendor risk management? Enterprise vendor risk management is the process of assessing and monitoring the risk a third-party supplier introduces to an organisation. It covers security posture, delivery capability, financial stability and exit terms, applied before contract is signed and repeated throughout […]

How APRA CPS 230 & CPS 234 Are Transforming Vendor Selection in Australia

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Australian financial services institutions are facing a significant regulatory evolution, driven by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) updated prudential standards: CPS 230 (Operational Risk Management) and CPS 234 (Information Security). These standards are more than incremental changes; they represent a fundamental reshaping of how APRA-regulated entities approach third-party and vendor risk management, with profound […]

How to Evaluate Technology Vendors Without the Bias

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Vendor selection is one of the highest-stakes decisions an enterprise buyer makes. This guide explains how to build a structured, bias-free evaluation process that produces defensible outcomes and keeps the buyer in control.