http://www.csoonline.com/article/2877972/security-leadership/3-things-csos-can-learn-from-cpos.html
By Maria Korolov
CSO
Jan 29, 2015
The role of the CSO and CIO has been changing dramatically as technology
becomes more and more vital to business strategies. Sometimes, it can be
hard to keep up.
Amol Joshi, SVP of business development at Redwood City, Calif.-based
Ivalua Inc., suggests that CSOs and CIOs can pick up a few tricks from
Chief Procurement Officers.
1. Create and use contract templates
Many CIOs and CSOs are faced with the responsibility of creating or
reviewing contracts with outsourcers, contractors, part-time help,
software vendors, data centers, cloud services providers and other vendors
and suppliers.
CPOs have been doing this for a long time, and one trick that the use is
create a library of clauses that they can put into a contract when needed.
These clauses have to be kept up to date, Joshi said. For example, cloud
SLAs evolve all the time, as do compliance requirements.
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