Third Party Security Assessment and Vendor Risk Management

An increasing number of cyber incidents are driven by weaknesses in the supply chain. As organisations rapidly outsource services to managed service providers and rely on a growing number of as-a-service platforms, third parties are routinely entrusted with sensitive information and critical systems.

A structured third party security assessment helps organisations identify and manage these risks by validating how vendors protect data, manage security controls, and respond to threats before issues escalate into breaches.

  • Commercial and Vendor Management teams have for long been managing vendor risks from a financial and operational viewpoint, but often lack the capability and processes to assess and manage the security risks or exposure these vendors bring to their organisations.
  • Security teams are there to help, but commonly lack the resources to keep an eye on every single vendor. Yet it only takes one vendor vulnerable to compromise your organisation.

Sekuro helps organisations quickly, systematically and efficiently manage their vendor security exposure without the need for additional in-house resources or lengthy processes.

Our Service

We deliver an end-to-end vendor security management service built around a structured third party security assessment approach that follows the full vendor lifecycle. This ensures security risks are identified, assessed, and managed from onboarding through to ongoing engagement.

Each assurance and management component can also be delivered independently, allowing organisations to apply third party security assessments where they are needed most without committing to a full program.

What We Do

We streamline your third-party vendor management process, cut down paper through online tools, reduce commercial costs, upkeep your security posture and free up your in-house resources.

How this service works

  1. We help you review, and when necessary create/uplift, your third-party vendor security management framework. 
  2. We will tailor our series of online third-party vendor assessment tool to meet your existing metrics and service levels as well as the agreed processes. 
  3. When new vendors are considered, your commercial and project teams direct them to our online Profile tool where vendors can complete a short questionnaire. The tool will suggest a potential Vendor Level relevant to your organisation. 
  4. Each Vendor Level links to different sets of requirements, assessment questionnaires, validation and ongoing management.

Assurance & Management Framework Overview

We tailor each component to your existing frameworks, requirements and metrics. 

*sample values only. These will be tailored to your requirements, risk management framework & appetite.
**Vendor Levels are tailored to your organisation and usually consider the services delivered, sensitivity and access to information, geographical location, sub-contracting supply chain, company stability/maturity, and resilience.

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