Risk-tiered onboarding, evidence-based assessment, and continuous monitoring of vendor posture. The obligations enforced, not filed.
The supply-chain breaches you read about happened to companies whose TPRM function was annual questionnaires and a catalog last reviewed two years ago. The attacker didn't care about the SIG Lite on file. They cared that the vendor's posture changed and nobody was watching.
The work is moving the program from documentation to operations: a vendor inventory built around the data and access each vendor touches, risk tiers that drive onboarding diligence, evidence-based assessment, and continuous monitoring of vendor attack surface.
A catalog last reviewed two years ago, built around names rather than access.
Every vendor diligenced the same, so effort lands away from the real risk.
Self-reported answers with nothing behind them, accepted and filed.
The vendor's environment changed after the questionnaire. Nobody was watching.
A new enterprise customer wants to see how you manage your vendors. Their security questionnaire has six pages on it. The auditor expanded scope to TPRM this cycle. The program you have on paper is not the program they expect.
MOVEit. Okta. Snowflake. The latest supply-chain compromise reaches your vendor list. The board asks the question, and 'we have a questionnaire on file' is not the answer they want.
The catalog has grown faster than the program. Every vendor gets the same questionnaire and the same review cadence. The critical data-handling vendor and the office-snack-delivery vendor sit at the same tier, which means none of them get real attention.
Every vendor with data, system, or operational access identified. Data type, access scope, and business owner named for each. Catalog updated through procurement, not through annual reconciliation.
Tiers calibrated to your industry, your data types, and the regulators reaching your environment. Each tier has its own diligence depth, contract requirements, and review cadence.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST reports reviewed for scope, exceptions, and applicability. Architectural and operational diligence on the vendors whose failure would hurt you most.
MSA, DPA, BAA, and SOW templates with security obligations, breach notification, data handling, audit rights, and termination clauses written for enforcement. Legal and security signed off jointly.
Attack-surface intelligence, breach feeds, financial health signals, and posture telemetry for tier-1 and tier-2 vendors. Findings reach the GRC forum on cadence and trigger the playbook when posture changes.
Top-risk vendor review, tier changes, contract renewal triggers, incident retrospectives, and program metrics. Run as a working group, reported to the GRC forum, with the executive view ready for the board.
When the relationship ends, data return, access revocation, certificate revocation, and contractual closeout executed and documented. The exit is as managed as the onboarding.
The program operates after we step back. Your team, our managed service, or a hybrid model fits the org. The control set, the inventory, and the monitoring feeds remain the same on either side of the handoff.
Every vendor with data, system, or operational access identified. Data flows mapped. Business owners assigned. The catalog reflects reality, not the procurement system's last sync. Gaps and shadow vendors surfaced.
Risk tiering model calibrated to your industry, data types, and regulators. Tiers drive different onboarding diligence, contract language, and monitoring cadence. Existing vendors re-classified against the new model.
Evidence-based assessment of tier-1 and tier-2 vendors. SOC 2 and ISO reports reviewed for scope and exceptions. Architectural and operational diligence on the vendors that matter most. Decisions documented with rationale.
Continuous monitoring live. Quarterly working group reviewing tier-1 vendors. Annual recertification cadence on schedule. Contract enforcement rehearsed. Offboarding discipline executed when relationships end.
Evidence-based vendor diligence, including SOC 2 and ISO report review, architectural and operational assessment, and the calibrated questionnaire-plus-evidence model that replaces self-attestation on the vendors that matter.
See expertiseSecurity obligations, breach notification windows, data-handling requirements, audit rights, and termination clauses written into MSAs, DPAs, and BAAs. Reviewed by legal and security together, rehearsed for enforcement.
See expertiseVendor posture telemetry, breach intelligence, certificate hygiene, and dark-web exposure feeds. The signals that move between annual reviews, surfaced to the working group with the playbook attached.
See expertiseTPRM controls mapped to SOC 2 CC9, HIPAA §164.308(b), NYDFS Part 500.11, ISO 27001 A.5.19-23, PCI 12.8, and the sector-specific rules reaching your vendor estate. Evidence captured against each one.
See expertiseThirty minutes with a senior partner. Bring the vendor catalog, the data they touch, and the framework you report against. We will tell you what a working program would look like.