# Announcing the Vendor Security Alliance

DevFeed: [Announcing the Vendor Security Alliance](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/announcing-the-vendor-security-alliance-15527.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/announcing-the-vendor-security-alliance>)

Author: Samantha Verdile

Published: 2016-09-15T15:22:47Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Business Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/business-security.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [business](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/business.md>), [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [industry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/industry.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [standards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/standards.md>)

## AI overview

Square announces the Vendor Security Alliance, a coalition of companies working to streamline and strengthen cybersecurity vetting for vendors. The alliance will create a comprehensive questionnaire, benchmark practices across industries, and publish its first version on October 1, 2016.

## Source excerpt

At Square, we protect data like our business depends on it -- because it does. We adhere to industry-leading standards to manage our...