Vendor-Provided Resources

Vendor relationships naturally expose your organization to risk. These can impact your organization in many ways, so it’s important to identify vendor risks before beginning a relationship. One of the first steps in this process is the inherent risk assessment. This internal document identifies the types and amounts of risks present in the vendor’s product or service. Inherent vendor risk is the level of risk your organization faces from a vendor relationship without any safeguards or controls in place. 

Download the eBook to learn: 

• Common vendor risk types with sample questions

• Next steps after determining inherent vendor risk

• How to use inherent risk in your program decisions

A vendor with inadequate business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plans can be a recipe for disaster. You may face delayed service times, data loss, operational delays, and reputational damage. A vendor’s BC/DR plans and associated test results documentation can provide assurance the vendor is prepared. 

Download the checklist to learn: 

• What to review in a vendor's business continuity plan 

• What to review in a vendor's disaster recovery plan

"...when resources are limited, ingenuity must step in. Even when our resources have dwindled and the stakes have grown, we must continue to achieve great things.

It’s a principle that applies far beyond beach vacations, especially in today’s world of Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), where teams are being asked to deliver more insight, faster decisions, and stronger outcomes—with fewer people, tighter budgets, and growing pressure."

Allocating a dedicated TPRM budget isn’t just a necessity — it’s a smart investment. A well-funded TPRM program empowers organizations to proactively identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate third-party risks.

By establishing and prioritizing a TPRM budget, your organization protects operations, supports compliance, and strengthens business continuity. With the right resources in place, you can build resilient, high-performing third-party relationships.

Download the infographic to learn: 

• Reasons for a third-party risk budget

• How a third-party risk budget protects your organization

Managing third-party risks is critical in today’s fast-paced business environment—but it shouldn’t take over your entire day. Imagine a solution that not only streamlines compliance but also makes your day-to-day responsibilities easier, all while positioning you as a trusted expert in front of your leadership.

As global third-party risk assessment methods evolve, important questions arise about the tangible benefits of onsite assessments. While close-up, in-person examinations offer deeper insights through firsthand experience, remote assessments provide flexibility and scalability. Our whitepaper explores the evolution from self-assessed questionnaire-based assessments to validated onsite evaluations, the impact of regulatory requirements, and the future direction of a hybrid approach combining the best of both methods.

An organization's mindset and approach toward managing risks, also known as risk culture, plays a crucial role to manage third party risks effectively. Risk culture is a key element in helping teams work together appropriately to achieve their objectives and maintain performance in unpredictable business environments.

Learn what organizations need to know and do to ensure they have a strong third-party risk culture.

Download the eBook to learn:

• The components of third-party risk culture

• Questions to determine if your organization's risk culture is proactive, neutral, or reactive

• Benefits of a strong third-party risk culture

• How to create a third-party risk culture

This white paper provides a brief overview of how OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) can identify early warning signs of financial distress weeks or even months before they appear in traditional financial reports. It emphasizes the importance of proactive monitoring for risk mitigation, particularly in today's volatile economic climate.

As we've entered the digital age, new specialities and methods of collaboration have made it easier to work together. But this interconnectedness is not without risk. By relying on others, organizations create a dependency over which they have limited control. Failures experienced by unreliable partners can affect not just a single organization, but also a remarkably large portion of the global economy.

In this report, we draw on Bitsight data from a variety of sources—including third-party relationships, our security scanning technologies, entity mapping, and financial data—to offer a comprehensive picture of the global, digital supply chain.

We uncover:

• The role of “providers,” or organizations that deliver resources and processes (and, spoiler alert, have their own large supply chains)

• There “hidden pillars” of the global supply chain (i.e. providers who serve a small number of consumers but have significant market share)

• How the security postures of each player—including providers, consumers, and products—factor in

• What CISOs or risk managers can do in the face of this complexity