Third-party risk management
Your cyber risk extends beyond your own walls. Anyone with access to your data, every vendor, partner, and supplier, can open your organization to new vulnerabilities. SideChannel's third-party risk management service screens your vendors, answers the security questionnaires you receive, and builds remediation plans, so your vendor list can grow without growing your risk.
Vendor cyber risk is company cyber risk
Every vendor you connect to your systems inherits a piece of your risk. As your organization becomes more connected, that exposure grows, and everyone in your supply chain touches your bottom line. Our team combines hands-on expertise with the right tooling to compile the questions that matter, screen vendors properly, and prepare remediation plans before a breach happens. The result is third-party security you can measure and scale as your vendor list grows.
What we do
Our third-party risk management service is proactive and hands-on. We give your team what it needs to build and maintain a secure vendor network:
Create third-party risk questionnaires
Develop remediation activities
Improve visibility into third-party vendor relationships
Deliver detailed risk reports
Provide ongoing support
How your organization benefits
Protect critical data and your reputation.
Maintain and build trust with your customers.
Scale your vendor list with confidence.
Vendor risk is part of the program your vCISO owns
Third-party risk does not sit on its own. At SideChannel, vendor risk reviews are part of the security program a vCISO owns, so the same team that sets your strategy also screens your vendors and handles the security questionnaires your customers send you. You get the strategy and the execution from one team.
Sets your strategy
one team
Screens your vendors
one team
Handles the questionnaires
one team
Frequently asked questions
What is third-party risk management (TPRM)?
Third-party risk management is the practice of finding, measuring, and reducing the cyber risk your vendors, partners, and suppliers bring to your organization. Because anyone with access to your data can open you to new vulnerabilities, TPRM screens those third parties, tracks their security posture, and puts remediation plans in place before a problem becomes an incident. SideChannel delivers TPRM as a service so your vendor list can grow without growing your risk.
What does SideChannel's third-party risk management service include?
SideChannel's third-party risk management service assesses vendor profiles, creates third-party risk questionnaires, develops remediation activities, improves visibility into your third-party vendor relationships, delivers detailed risk reports, and provides ongoing support. Together these give your team what it needs to build and maintain a secure vendor network.
Can SideChannel help us respond to security questionnaires from our customers?
Yes. SideChannel helps you respond to the third-party risk assessment questionnaires your own customers send you, and conducts third-party risk assessments of your vendors. The same team screens your vendors and handles the incoming questionnaires, so you answer them accurately without pulling your team off other work.
Who runs third-party risk management at SideChannel?
Vendor risk reviews are part of the security program a SideChannel vCISO owns, so the same team that sets your security strategy also screens your vendors and manages your third-party risk. You get strategy and execution from one team rather than handing vendor risk to a separate vendor.
Get expert third-party risk management with SideChannel
Find out how your business can reduce risk from supply chain vulnerabilities and attacks. Talk with our team to get started.