Managing Third-Party Risk

SingTel's Edwin Lim Offers Risk Management Insights Varun Haran (APACinfosec) • August 22, 2018

Edwin Lim, director of professional services - APJ, Trustwave, a Singtel company

The level of integration that third-party vendors and services have in the enterprise environment is introducing risks vectors that are not well understood, says Edwin Lim of Trustwave.

In this video interview at the recent RSA APJ 2018 conference in Singapore, Lim discusses:

Understanding third-party vendor risk in context;
What enterprises could be doing better to manage third-party risk;
Why a change in mindset is required.

Lim is director of professional services in APJ for Trustwave, a subsidiary of Singtel He has over 18 years of experience in the IT industry. He was previously director of cybersecurity in APAC for NEC Corp.

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About the Author

Varun Haran

Managing Director, Asia & Middle East, ISMG

Haran has been a technology journalist in the Indian market for over six years, covering the enterprise technology segment and specializing in information security. He has driven multiple industry events such as the India Computer Security Conferences (ICSC) and the first edition of the Ground Zero Summit 2013 during his stint at UBM. Prior to joining ISMG, Haran was first a reporter with TechTarget writing for SearchSecurity and SearchCIO; and later, correspondent with InformationWeek, where he covered enterprise technology-related topics for the CIO and IT practitioner.