Supply Chain

Third-party risk management (TPRM)

You know which suppliers could hurt you, and you hear quickly when one of them is breached.

Addresses 82 stories in our coverage in the last 90 days 4 products that provide it

What it is

An inventory of suppliers ranked by how critical they are, security assessments before and during the contract, and monitoring for supplier incidents.

How to value it

Supplier breaches have caused some of the largest incidents of recent years, through software updates, payroll services and file transfer tools. NIS2 and DORA both make supply chain security an explicit duty, and DORA requires a register of ICT providers. Knowing your critical suppliers and watching them turns a surprise into a planned response.

Questions to ask a vendor

  1. 1Does it rank suppliers by criticality and data access, instead of sending everyone the same questionnaire?
  2. 2Does it monitor suppliers continuously for breaches and exposures?
  3. 3Can it produce the DORA register of information?
  4. 4How are our suppliers' own suppliers handled?

For your risk register

Risk
A breach at a critical supplier exposes our data or stops operations.
Control
Supplier inventory with criticality tiers, assessments and continuous monitoring.
Owner
Procurement together with the CISO.
Measure
Critical suppliers with a current assessment.

A starting point: set the owner and measure to fit your organisation.

Products that provide it

Listed alphabetically by vendor. A listing is not a recommendation: use the questions above to compare them, or tick up to 3 to see them side by side.

Recent stories it addresses

324 stories in total

How we list vendors

  • A product is listed because it provides the control. Nobody pays to be listed, and on story pages the examples rotate, so no vendor is always first.
  • Vendor pages show both the vendor's own research and the incidents involving its products, from our own coverage. We do not leave either out.
  • Our summaries are written by us, based on the vendors' own pages. Text in quotation marks or marked "in their own words" is the vendor's own, quoted from its website.
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