Third-party risk management (TPRM) is a top priority for ensuring a business remains secure. It is especially challenging for those who have onboarded new legal entities through an acquisition or find themselves working with several legacy suppliers in a multi-faceted organization.

Sam Watling, Head of Critical Asset Security, TUI Group, spoke to Infosecurity Magazine about some of the challenges a company of over 60,000 employees has when it comes to cybersecurity and the approach his team has taken to TPRM in recent years. 

Infosecurity Magazine: What are the biggest like security challenges a company like TUI faces?

Sam Watling: Well TUI is quite big, we have around 62,000 employees at the moment and the workforce is diverse and dispersed. We have people sitting in offices, contact centres, retail stores as well as aircraft crew, pilots, staff at airports alongside employees working on cruise ships and in hotels.