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Third-party risk, for the people accountable for it

Written for procurement, risk, legal, privacy and security leaders and the executives they report to: why third-party risk became first-party risk, what regulators expect, how to tier, assess and monitor vendors, and worked use cases with the diagrams and the screens.

Use cases, worked end to end

One real situation per post: what happens, who does what, and what the console shows at each step.

Use cases, worked end to end For every reader

Bringing in an AI vendor

Quill AI, customer support replies and the question of who trains on your data

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Use cases, worked end to end For procurement & vendor-risk teams

Reading a SOC 2 report in minutes, not hours

Type, period, opinion, exceptions, CUECs and the subservice organisations, with the page for each

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Use cases, worked end to end For legal & privacy

The contract the playbook catches

Liability caps, data location, subprocessors, deletion and audit rights, checked clause by clause

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Use cases, worked end to end For CISOs & risk leaders

When a vendor is breached

From the news item to a re-assessment, sized to the vendor's tier

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Use cases, worked end to end For procurement & vendor-risk teams

The SOC report that quietly expired

Evidence has a shelf life. Your vendor file should know it.

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Use cases, worked end to end For procurement & vendor-risk teams

The renewal that comes with a recommendation

Renew, renegotiate or offboard, decided before the notice date passes

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Use cases, worked end to end For procurement & vendor-risk teams

You may already have this

Duplicate tools, overlapping spend and the request that should become a new use

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Use cases, worked end to end For CISOs & risk leaders

Fourth parties and concentration risk

Your vendors' vendors, and the one provider half your critical suppliers depend on

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