Vendor-Provided Resources

A vendor’s financial stability directly impacts your operations. Financial health is a critical indicator of the vendor’s ability to deliver consistent quality and support when you need it most. That makes vendor financial health an important element to review during your vendor due diligence process. 

This infographic explores the impact of poor vendor financial health — and what your organization can do about it. 

Download the infographic to learn:

• Why vendor financial health matters

• What to do when a vendor has poor financial stability

"For years, security frameworks have served as essential tools for aligning cybersecurity practices, but they’ve also come with limitations. Designed primarily for compliance, many frameworks are rigid by nature, sometimes to the extent of being a checklist, making them ill-suited for today’s dynamic risk environments. But the threat landscape has evolved, and so too must our approach. In an environment where attacks unfold in hours and supply chain vulnerabilities cascade across ecosystems, organizations need more than compliance—they need real-time intelligence."

Build a third-party risk program that stands up to today’s threats—and tomorrow’s scrutiny.

Third-party risk is no longer just a cybersecurity issue—it’s a business imperative. As regulatory demands tighten and digital ecosystems expand, organizations must evolve beyond checkbox assessments and ad hoc processes. This eBook outlines a structured, scalable approach to managing third-party cyber risk at every phase of the vendor lifecycle.

Whether you're starting from scratch or optimizing a mature program, you'll learn how to strengthen risk assessment, streamline workflows, and build cross-functional collaboration—all while ensuring defensibility and speed.

What you'll learn:

• Why traditional TPRM practices fall short in today’s dynamic threat landscape

• The 10 foundational pillars of a resilient TPRM program—from vendor selection to offboarding

• How to align stakeholders, automate critical workflows, and build continuous monitoring into your strategy

• Why Bitsight data and insights are essential for faster, smarter third-party risk decisions

Security questionnaires and assessments are integral parts of comprehensive Vendor Risk Management (VRM) programs. But if you’re just getting started in the creation of your vendor risk assessment, you probably want to know what the most vital, high-level questions are and why you should be asking them.

This guide will help you get started with your vendor security assessment. You'll learn:

• Which questions to consider including in your vendor risk assessment

• Which industry-standard security assessment methodologies you should review

• Why a security assessment alone is not enough to continuously monitor and assess the security posture of your third parties and vendors

Download this ebook to better understand what critical questions you should be asking in your VRM program and why they’re so vital to your cybersecurity.

At 45-50%, depending on your statistical source, there is no denying that small to medium sized businesses are a significant economic engine from both an employment and innovation perspective. In 1978 Microsoft numbered 11 people. Unfortunately small businesses are also the least likely to survive a major disruption, an experience that changed Rochelle Clarke's corporate leadership trajectory to a business founder.

The Continuity Strength founder shares insights on the needs of small to medium businesses and how to develop resilience plans while simultaneously addressing the two biggest concerns of most SMB owners, time and money. Prior to founding Continuity Strength, Ms. Clarke was the Country Manager, Global Strategy for Heineken, a management consultant and is on multiple board and academic committees.

In this video, we explore the shortcomings of the bucket method for gathering due diligence documents from vendors and present a better way to collect the documents, making vendor management less painful.

Over the years, we have received feedback from customers that vendor management is one of their top pain points. This workbook was written from a desire to help guide vendor managers through the process in a way that is equally effective and efficient. Many of the concepts in this book are implemented in our vendor management software.

This article explains why small and mid sized vendors create outsized third party risk and how programs can bring them into view without adding heavy overhead. It covers the regulatory direction in the United States and the influence of DORA in the European Union, then offers a practical playbook for teams. Readers get a minimum viable evidence set, ways to use annual attestations as live monitoring, guidance on explainable scoring, and a short list of metrics that prove progress. The goal is fast, defensible assurance for the long tail of vendors.

This eBook explores the urgent need to adapt TPRM strategies to this evolving threat. We will examine why standard approaches such as SOC 2 and questionnaires often fall short in mitigating the modern ransomware menace. We will outline practical steps to bolster business continuity planning, integrate cybersecurity with operational resilience, and leverage HITRUST for more robust third-party risk mitigation. The question is not if another disruption will occur but when — and whether your organization will be ready.

Organizations rely on third-party vendors for crucial functions. These vendors often gain internal access to sensitive data. As dependencies increase, the risk of cyber threats increases, too. You may have a robust cybersecurity program. But what about your vendors? How do you ensure they have a strong cybersecurity plan to protect your and your customers’ data?

As financial technology (fintech) continues to evolve, third-party vendor risk management for financial institutions has become a mission-critical priority. In a sector where digital services, data-driven solutions, and external partnerships are the norm, overlooking third-party risk can lead to severe regulatory, operational, and reputational consequences.

This blog explores the unique challenges fintech companies face when managing third-party vendors and how adopting a structured, scalable assurance program like HITRUST can turn risk into a strategic advantage.

One of the most persistent challenges in Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) is the growing tension between vendors and their customers over how much information is “enough” to complete the vendor due diligence process and gain meaningful assurance. At the heart of this tension is a fundamental friction: vendors are understandably cautious about sharing detailed internal information, while customers are under pressure to demand more of it.