Manage Vendor Risk with Confidence
Build Trust • Manage Risk • Strengthen Resilience
Helping organizations govern vendor relationships, align with regulatory requirements, and turn manual, reactive processes into a risk-based, automated program that scales.
Trusted for TPRM Strategy & Execution
Vendor Governance
Risk-Based Assessment
Regulatory Alignment
Automation &
Workflow
Exit Strategy
Planning
TPRM Challenges
Challenge 01
Vendor Risk Without Governance
You can't manage what nobody owns.
No Clear Ownership: No defined roles or accountability for vendor risk decisions
No Policy: No documented standards for onboarding, monitoring, or offboarding vendors
No Metrics: No way to show leadership how vendor risk is actually trending
Siloed Intake: Compliance, continuity, and security each run their own disconnected process
Challenge 02
A One-Size-Fits-All Program
Not every vendor deserves the same level of scrutiny — or the same blind spot.
Flat Assessments: Critical vendors reviewed the same way as low-risk ones
Wasted Effort: Deep due diligence spent on vendors that don't need it
Missed Exposure: High-risk vendors slip through with only a surface-level review
No Continuous Monitoring: Risk reassessed rarely, if ever, after onboarding
Challenge 03
No Plan for When It Ends
Every vendor relationship ends eventually — plan for it or scramble through it.
No Exit Strategy: No documented plan for critical or high-risk vendor terminations
Continuity Risk: Service gaps and disruption when a vendor relationship ends abruptly
Data Exposure: No clear process for data return, deletion, or access revocation
Compliance Gaps: Termination doesn't meet the same regulatory bar as onboarding did
What's Included
Regulatory & Compliance Alignment
Operationalize regulatory expectations through practical vendor risk processes and controls while proactively addressing third-party oversight gaps before they become examination or compliance issues.
OCC/FRB/FDIC
NYDFS 500
FINRA
SEC S-P
FDA/21 CFR
HIPAA/HITECH
EU DORA
EU GDPR
Includes operational efficiency reviews alongside compliance assessment.
Accelerate Vendor Onboarding Without Increasing Risk
Centralized intake, standardized scoring, and clear SLAs mean onboarding moves fast without cutting corners.
Speed and rigor aren't a tradeoff — they're the same process, done right.
• Optimize vendor onboarding operating model
• Centralize intake & routing across compliance, continuity, security, and other risk domains
• Standardize questionnaires, due diligence, and risk scoring
• Define responsibility, escalation rules, and SLAs
Governance, Business Alignment & Value Demonstration
Vendor risk management that ties directly to real business goals — protecting revenue, customer trust, and operational continuity — not just a compliance checkbox.
Vendor risk management your board can actually see and trust.
• Governance policies with clear ownership and oversight
• Documented, tested exit strategies for critical and high-risk vendors
• Reporting dashboards for visibility and continuous improvement
• Risk appetite and thresholds aligned with real business objectives, not generic benchmarks
Operational Scalability & Efficiencies
Built to scale with your vendor list — automated workflows and tiered assessments that handle more vendors without needing more people to manage them.
Built to scale with your vendor list, not buckle under it.
• Workflow and platform integration to eliminate manual work
• Risk-based, tiered assessment approach — not one-size-fits-all
• Intelligent automation and workflow routing
• Scalable processes that keep pace as your vendor list grows, without adding headcount
How we build your
TPRM program
1
Assess
We tier your vendor population by risk, so critical relationships get real scrutiny and low-risk ones don't waste your team's time.
2
Standardize
Automate
We build standardized questionnaires, scoring frameworks, and SLAs, with intake centralized across compliance, continuity, security, and other risk domains.
We evaluate and implement the platform and workflow automation your program needs to move from manual tracking to real-time visibility.
4
Govern & Report
3
You get governance policies, tested exit strategies, and reporting dashboards, so oversight continues well past initial onboarding.
Is this for you? It is if...
Vendor risk decisions live in someone's inbox, not a defined process
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You treat every vendor the same, regardless of actual risk level
You don't have a documented plan for what happens when a vendor relationship ends
You're managing vendor risk manually and it's not keeping pace with your vendor list
Grounded in the frameworks that matter​
OCC/FRB/FDIC
EU DORA
FDA/CFR 21
Real TPRM work, not theory
Led the consolidation of vendor risk processes for a U.S. bank, creating a unified, risk-driven ecosystem that improved safe vendor onboarding by 30% and reduced assessment time by 25%, while enhancing overall risk visibility and governance.
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Operationalized U.S. and European regulatory expectations requirements across life sciences TPRM practices.
Vendor risk doesn't stop at the contract
Vendor relationships touch nearly every part of the business — security, compliance, and executive decision-making all depend on getting this right.