The vendors you leverage have varying levels of connectivity to your business and environment. As a result, your company has more exposure to the following risks and impacts: financial, brand, business process/supply chain, data breaches and/or loss, unauthorized access to systems, regulatory and compliance impacts, financial stability of the vendor and geopolitical risks.
Mitigating the risks you face from third parties is often challenging due to ineffective, inefficient or immature third-party vendor management programs; a lack of sustainable and repeatable processes; limited resources; shadow IT services; supply chain dependencies; and how incidents are addressed if/when a breach occurs.
Our third-party risk management services include:
In this phase, our consultants review your policies and procedures, contract template language, Business Associate Agreements (BAA) and other applicable documents. We interview key stakeholders from your procurement, legal, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), information security, compliance, privacy and other teams as required.
We assess, help define and mature your current third-party (vendor) intake processes. This includes a robust review of your process owners, defined risk-tiers, artifact requirements, assessment criteria and other appropriate third-party assessment activities necessary for each level of risk ranking.
We also provide recommendations to improve your program and suggestions for adding automation, tools and approaches for further program maturity. Our consultants provide an actionable program roadmap that includes a prioritized, strategic, multi-year plan, as well as a tactical plan for full implementation.
Additional TPRM support and managed services include:
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