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proportion of companies which admit they struggle to assess fourth parties effectively

Ed leads ProcessUnity ’ s marketing team , overseeing the company ’ s awareness , demand generation and thought-leadership programmes . With extensive experience in marketing and sales operations at ProcessUnity , Cura Software Solutions and OpenPages ( now IBM ), he has helped hundreds of organisations streamline their risk and compliance programmes using next-generation automation tools .

This creates what ’ s known as a ‘ third-party risk vulnerability gap .’ This is marked by inefficiencies in onboarding , assessment backlogs and challenges with accurately tiering risks . To close this gap , organisations need to modernise their TPRM practices and introduce tools that can streamline processes and handle growing complexities .

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