About this episode

This episode discusses the risks associated with choosing the wrong vendor and the importance of contract evaluation.

All links and images can be found on CISO Series . Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by David Spark , the producer of CISO Series , and Steve Zalewski . Joining us is our guest, Paul Guerra. In this episode: Read the contract How vendors win before the evaluation ends The fallout The real cost A huge thanks to our sponsor, Native Security Native makes secure-by-design inherent to how the cloud operates. It's the control plane for built-in cloud security, unifying and governing native controls, so security intent is defined once and applied consistently across providers. Learn more at native.security .

People in this episode

Hosts: David Spark, Steve Zalewski

Guest: Paul Guerra

Topics covered

• vendor selection
• contract evaluation
• cloud security
• cost analysis
• security controls

Keywords

• vendor selection
• contract
• cloud security
• cost
• evaluation

Sponsors

Native Security

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CISO Series

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