From one vendor to one thousand.

Vendor Risk Management (VRM) is the process of evaluating the risk postures of business partners, suppliers, or third-party vendors both before establishing a business relationship and throughout the duration of the contract. This encompasses the entire vendor lifecycle, including onboarding, continuous monitoring, and offboarding. 

Bitsight's VRM solution streamlines the management of third-party vendors by automating workflows, consolidating document collection, and continuously assessing vendor security hygiene. This approach simplifies the complexities involved in managing a growing vendor portfolio and enhances the organization's ability to mitigate risks effectively.

Vendors can introduce various risks, including:

• Cybersecurity Risks: Potential vulnerabilities in a vendor's systems can be exploited to access your organization's data.
• Compliance Risks: Non-compliance with industry regulations by a vendor can lead to legal and financial repercussions for your organization.
• Operational Risks: Disruptions in a vendor's operations can impact your organization's ability to deliver products or services.
• Reputational Risks: A vendor's actions or breaches can negatively affect your organization's reputation.

Bitsight provides objective cyber risk analytics to help organizations identify and manage these risks effectively. By continuously monitoring vendors' security postures, Bitsight enables organizations to make informed decisions and prioritize risk mitigation efforts.

Assessing a vendor's security involves evaluating their security policies, practices, and controls to ensure they meet your organization's standards and compliance requirements.

Bitsight offers security ratings that provide an objective, data-driven assessment of a vendor's cybersecurity performance. These ratings help organizations quickly evaluate vendors' security postures and determine if they align with the organization's risk tolerance.

In the event of a vendor breach, organizations should:

• Immediate Notification: Ensure the vendor notifies your organization promptly about the breach.
• Assessment: Evaluate the impact of the breach on your organization's data and operations.
• Mitigation: Collaborate with the vendor to contain and remediate the breach.
• Review Contracts: Ensure contracts include specific terms for breach notification and response timelines.

Bitsight emphasizes the importance of including breach notification clauses in vendor contracts, stipulating that vendors must notify your organization within a specified timeframe and take mandated remediation actions.

Vendor risk management tools should be able to automate various tasks, including:

• Sending Assessments: Automatically dispatching security questionnaires to vendors.
• Tracking Responses: Monitoring and managing vendor responses to assessments.
• Reminders: Sending automated reminders for pending assessments or follow-ups.

Bitsight's VRM solution automates the vendor risk assessment process by triggering documentation requests based on vendor tiering, sending alerts when a vendor's security rating changes, and providing automatic reassessment reminders. This automation enhances efficiency and scalability in managing vendor risks.

Effective VRM enhances cybersecurity by:

• Risk Identification: Recognizing potential vulnerabilities introduced by third-party vendors.
• Continuous Monitoring: Keeping track of vendors' security postures over time.
• Informed Decision-Making: Providing data-driven insights to make strategic risk management decisions.

Bitsight's platform offers continuous monitoring and objective cybersecurity analytics, enabling organizations to make faster, more strategic decisions regarding vendor risks and cybersecurity policies.