News and Updates

SIG Integration Reduces Time-to-Value For Enterprises and Their Vendors

Privva, a leading third-party risk management platform, announced it has extended its relationship with Shared Assessments to offer the Shared Assessments Standard Information Gathering (SIG) questionnaire to include the 2020 version. Privva makes vendor risk management easy, utilizing...

ARLINGTON, VA - 10/14/2019 (PRDistribution.com)

Industry Experts Join Privva’s Advisory Board 

Privva is delighted to announce the formation of our new Advisory Board. This board will help shape and guide the strategy of the Privva third-party risk management platform. 

"I am excited to welcome Joanne and Lonny to the Privva team.

Their expertise w...

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Third-party risk management is becoming standard operating procedure across many organizati...

Privva is excited to announce we are now offering The Higher Education Cloud Vendor Assessment Tool (HECVAT) on our platform.  This content is helping Higher Education institutions simplify the process of assessing their vendors.

The HECVAT was created by the Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) Shared Assessments Working Group, in collabo...

A recent Ponemon study found that only 34% of companies maintain a comprehensive list of their vendors. 69% of the participants in the study blamed “a lack of centralized control” as the key factor as to why a comprehensive inventory had not been created.

Security departments must take a leading role in these situations in order to effectively manage the r...

Electric Utility Sector Third Party Risk: FERC Order No. 850

As of December 2018, new supply chain risk management reliability standards (Order No. 850) issued by the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) went into effect.

Going forward, electric utilities must assess their vendors during planning and procurement to confirm adequate security posture a...

Starting today, March 1, 2019, banks, insurance companies, and financial services firms operating in the state of New York must have written policies and procedures in place ensuring they adequately vet their vendors’ information security systems. The vendor security requirement is the last phase of the  NYDFS Cybersecurity Requirements that went into eff...

Two Critical Vendor Risk Ratings Now Available Through One Platform

Today, Privva, a leading risk management technology provider, announced a partnership with BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, to provide customers with a 360° view of third-party risk as part of Privva’s open platform initiative.

The Privva platform allows security professionals ac...