Whether you like it or not, procurement departments are essential partners to Security Operation Centers (SOCs) – and an inevitable part of the process for vendors. They have access to decision makers, budgets and run the competitive process. They’re a more important lot than we’d like to pretend is true. 

And despite procurement professionals fully believing in the importance of cyber security, it’s not something that gets them over excited… It’s all too easy to get bumped to the bottom of a list of new technology requirements and renewals of existing suppliers.