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Auditors expect contracts with security clauses, assessment records and a register of third-party services. For European financial entities this overlaps heavily with DORA ICT third-party risk requirements.\n\n**Common gaps.** Organisations often assess suppliers only at onboarding and then lose track. Many SaaS services are bought outside procurement, so they never receive security review.","a. Require that providers of external system services comply with organizational security and privacy requirements and employ the following controls: [Assignment: organization-defined controls];\n  b. Define and document organizational oversight and user roles and responsibilities with regard to external system services; and\n  c. Employ the following processes, methods, and techniques to monitor control compliance by external service providers on an ongoing basis: [Assignment: organization-defined processes, methods, and techniques].\nDiscussion: External system services are provided by an external provider, and the organization has no direct control over the implementation of the required controls or the assessment of control effectiveness. Organizations establish relationships with external service providers in a variety of ways, including through business partnerships, contracts, interagency agreements, lines of business arrangements, licensing agreements, joint ventures, and supply chain exchanges. The responsibility for managing risks from the use of external system services remains with authorizing officials. For services external to organizations, a chain of trust requires that organizations establish and retain a certain level of confidence that each provider in the consumer-provider relationship provides adequate protection for the services rendered. The extent and nature of this chain of trust vary based on relationships between organizations and the external providers. Organizations document the basis for the trust relationships so that the relationships can be monitored. External system services documentation includes government, service providers, end user security roles and responsibilities, and service-level agreements. Service-level agreements define the expectations of performance for implemented controls, describe measurable outcomes, and identify remedies and response requirements for identified instances of noncompliance.","From NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5, a work of the US government in the public domain.","https:\u002F\u002Fcsrc.nist.gov\u002Fpubs\u002Fsp\u002F800\u002F53\u002Fr5\u002Fupd1\u002Ffinal","Open SP 800-53 at NIST",null,"2026-10-18T15:18:43.663+00:00",{"total":9,"list":19},[20,24,28,32,36,40,44,48,52,56,60,64],{"slug":21,"title":22,"published_at":23},"connectwise-cloud-backup-suspended-after-microsoft-365-tenant-compromise","ConnectWise Cloud Backup Suspended After Microsoft 365 Tenant Compromise","2026-10-18T10:20:20.475+00:00",{"slug":25,"title":26,"published_at":27},"connectwise-supply-chain-attack-compromises-162-microsoft-365-tenants","ConnectWise Supply-Chain Attack Compromises 162 Microsoft 365 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Pixels","2026-10-14T08:20:59.917+00:00",{"slug":61,"title":62,"published_at":63},"xandr-fined-86m-for-unlawfully-sharing-grindr-users-sexual-orientation-data","Xandr Fined €8.6M for Unlawfully Sharing Grindr Users' Sexual Orientation Data","2026-10-13T16:21:46.652+00:00",{"slug":65,"title":66,"published_at":67},"flock-safety-becomes-cna-can-vendors-self-police-their-own-vulnerabilities","Flock Safety Becomes CNA: Can Vendors Self-Police Their Own Vulnerabilities?","2026-10-13T00:20:25.004+00:00",[69,74,79,84,89,94],{"slug":70,"name":71,"problem":72,"stories":73},"third-party-risk-management","Third-party risk management (TPRM)","You know which suppliers could hurt you, and you hear quickly when one of them is breached.",40,{"slug":75,"name":76,"problem":77,"stories":78},"encryption-key-management","Encryption and key management","Stolen data stays unreadable, and the keys stay under your control.",29,{"slug":80,"name":81,"problem":82,"stories":83},"data-loss-prevention","Data loss 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