My company is shifting their data security emphasis to monitor 3rd parties. For example: we’re constantly sending data to a firm that processes our finances and performs basic accounting/reporting. How do we ensure these 3rd parties aren’t mishandling our data? How do we know if Joe Shmoe isn’t copying our files, losing/replicating our tapes, or distributing our sensitive information? I’m looking for technologies, software, questionnaires, or some methodology that provides a meaningful assessment or metric that indicates how secure our data is once it leaves our network.
Duce’s response is more inline with what I’m looking for. We’ve already established contracts with these 3rd parties that prevent them from mishandling our data, but nothing is full-proof. Our business wouldn’t exist if our data was in the wrong hands, so we’re not satisfied with just a legal contract that says "we’ll sue you if you f-up". We’ve got the encryption down, we have reliable means of sending data, but nothing that helps us assess a 3rd party’s handling of our data. Any tracking mechanisms? Software-related quality assurance, maybe? Tools that provide metrics that give an indication as to how responsible/reliable another company’s infrastructure is?

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