In the News

Shared Assessments Summit Explores Cloud Computing, Insider Fraud, Data Breaches [pdf]
May 18, 2010
Shared Assessments Publishes Mapping to HIPAA and HITECH Security Breach Notification Rules [pdf]
March 17, 2010
New Shared Assessments Program Tools Help Outsourcers Check Reliability of Cloud, SaaS Providers [pdf]
November 10, 2009
Shared Assessments Program expands membership [pdf]
September 29, 2009
BITS and Indian Standards Body Commit to Best Practices in Offshoring
News Story by Orla O'Sullivan, Network Computing
April 28, 2009
Significant Adoption Growth Seen for BITS Vendor Assessments Standards [pdf]
New features streamline program efficiencies and promote ease of use
November 21, 2008
Vendor Management: Shared Assessments Program Updated for October Debut [pdf]
New Tools Aimed at Streamlining Process for Institutions, Vendors
September, 2008
NASSCOM, DSCI, BITS and The Santa Fe Group to Create International Outsourcing Best Practices [pdf]
Industry Leaders Announce Memorandum of Understanding
April 22, 2008
Is this Vendor Management's Silver Bullet?
News Story by Linda McGlasson, Bank Info Security
February 26, 2008
Shared Assessments Program Introduces Streamlined "SIG Lite" Questionnaire [pdf]
January, 2008
Major Financial Institutions and Service Providers Using New BITS Standards for Security Assessments [pdf]
October, 2007
BITS Program Streamlines Vendor Security Audits
December, 2007
Group Crafts Standards for Evaluating Outsourcers
News Story by Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld
February 6, 2006
Banks Begin New Secure-Data Effort
Big Financial Institutions To Adopt Shared Guidelines To Protect Customers
By Robert A. Guth, staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal
February 1, 2006
Big Banks Ally for Data Security Program
By Lisa Vaas, eWeek
February 1, 2006
Risk Management: BITS Offers Outsourcing Report Card
Pooled outsourcer assessments offer banks and vendors uniform reviews of risk management capabilities
By Glen Fest
February 2006—Cover story
Outsourcing on the Fast Track: Financial Institution Shared Assessments Program Shows Muscle, Momentum [pdf]
October 25, 2006
Taking Stock of Risk
Source: IT Business Edge | Priority: Optimizing Infrastructure | Topic: Risk Management
March 9, 2006