Third-Party Risk Management

Third-party vendors are an extension of your business, and in turn, extend your risk. Understanding and managing your risk as it relates to the vendors in your supply chain is critical to your overall security posture.

Manage Inherent Risk from Third-Party Vendors

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.

Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Service Portfolio

Our third-party risk management services include:

  • Program Assessment: We assess and benchmark your TPRM program and define both strategic and tactical plans.
  • Program Development: Our team builds your program by creating governance documentation that includes policy, roles and responsibilities. We develop assessment process documentation that includes risk tiers, assessment criteria, artifact requirements and due diligence assessment activities necessary for each level of risk ranking. Additionally, we establish a monitoring process that includes documentation, reporting and tracking.
  • Program Support Services: Extend your team and operations with our consultants, who provide services leveraging our partner solutions that you have already acquired. With this service, we manage and conduct vendor assessment services within your platform and process.
  • Managed Services: With our managed services offering, we take on the heavy burden of managing your TPRM by engaging in strategic partnerships with key solution vendors, providing service extensions of our strategic partners, ensuring continuous monitoring and delivering external score improvement services.

Program Assessment & Development: Identify/Discover

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.

Program Assessment & Development: Design & Build/Resolve

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.

Program Assessment & Development: Monitor/Reporting

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.

TPRM Support & Managed Services

Additional TPRM support and managed services include:

  • Extend your team and operations with our consultants who can manage and conduct vendor assessment services within your platform and process. We leverage the solutions that you have already acquired.
  • Strategic partnerships with several leading TPRM solutions and the proper expertise to support and manage these tools.
  • Fully managed PaaS solution that integrates into your environment and process.

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