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Dealing with vendors' system conflicts and network security policies. How can you ensure user needs are met?

Dive into the tech maze: How do you balance security and accessibility in your vendor interactions?

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Dealing with vendors' system conflicts and network security policies. How can you ensure user needs are met?

Dive into the tech maze: How do you balance security and accessibility in your vendor interactions?

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    Alexia Wong

    Tuition teacher. Earned Community Top Voice Badge in Teaching in '23 and Community Top Voice Badge in Cybersecurity in '24.

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    To balance security and accessibility in your vendor interactions, you must first identify what are the most important security measures that you need to take. This is so that you would know what must be done in order to ensure that you and your users are secure. You need to also make sure that you find out what is considered as accessible and what isn't to your users. This is so that you would know what needs to be done in order to make it easier for them. You should also make sure that your vendor agrees to your policies. This is to avoid any disputes and disagreements.

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    Arivukkarasan Raja, PhD

    IT Director @ AstraZeneca | Expert in Enterprise Solution Architecture & Applied AI | Robotics & IoT | Digital Transformation | Strategic Vision for Business Growth Through Emerging Tech

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    Balance vendor integration and security by mapping user needs to business-critical functions. Collaborate with vendors to align on compliance without compromising UX. Use sandbox testing to identify conflicts early. Involve security teams to adapt policies where feasible. Maintain open communication with users, gather feedback, and iterate solutions to ensure usability and security co-exist effectively.

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    Bhavanishankar Ravindra

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    Dealing with vendors' system conflicts and stringent network security policies while meeting user needs requires proactive mediation. I would translate user requirements into specific secure integration needs, then engage vendors to find compliant, interoperable solutions. I meticulously assess proposed vendor architectures against our security policies, identifying necessary adaptations or controls. If conflicts arise, I facilitate discussions focusing on risk mitigation and finding secure workarounds that minimize user friction. It's about designing security to enable, not impede, essential user functions. By balancing robust network defense with practical usability, I would ensure critical operations proceed securely.

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