Vendor risk
Third-party risk management services for your vendor ecosystem
Your vendors can reach your data, your systems and your customers. We help you find which ones carry the most risk, assess them consistently and build a TPRM process your team can run without it taking over their week.
Executive advisors
Advisors who have built and fixed TPRM programs before
Ready for credit union exams
Vendor oversight records aligned to NCUA expectations
Business associate oversight
Vendor reviews that support HIPAA risk analysis
Top virtual CISO services company
Recognized by Cyber Security Review
Why it matters
Your vendors’ risk becomes your risk
Third-party risk management is the process of finding and reducing the risks that come from suppliers, service providers, business partners and other outside parties. Many of them hold sensitive data such as personal information, protected health information or proprietary business data, yet you have little direct control over their security.
Regulators hold you responsible anyway. If a vendor with access to your data is breached, the regulatory and customer consequences can land on you even when your own controls worked. A documented vendor risk program shows auditors, examiners and customers that you manage that exposure.
What’s included
Vendor risk management services from inventory to attestation
Vendor inventory and tiering
A complete list of third parties, ranked by the data and access each one has, so effort goes to the vendors that matter.
Data classification review
We review how you classify data and map which vendors touch each class.
Vendor security questionnaire
A questionnaire sized to each tier, plus review of SOC 2 reports and other evidence vendors provide.
Contract review
We check existing contract language for security, breach notification and audit rights, and suggest improvements.
TPRM committee
We help you form a committee with security, legal, procurement and business owners, and define its decisions.
Managed vendor risk assessment
We run assessments and reassessments on a set cadence and track findings until vendors close them.
How it works
How we build your TPRM program
Assess your current state
We review supply chain awareness, data classification, current vendor practices and contracts to measure your exposure.
Design the program
We set tiers, questionnaires, review cadence and approval steps that fit your size and regulators.
Assess vendors
We assess your highest-risk vendors first and record findings and remediation requests.
Run it on a cadence
Your team or ours reassesses vendors on schedule, with third-party attestation reviews tracked in one place.
Regulated industries
TPRM consulting for credit unions and healthcare
Credit unions. NCUA expects credit unions to perform due diligence on third parties and oversee them for as long as the relationship lasts, with the board informed. We build vendor programs that give examiners clear records of due diligence, contracts and ongoing monitoring.
Healthcare. Under HIPAA, business associates that handle ePHI need business associate agreements and appropriate safeguards. We help you inventory business associates, assess their security and fold vendor risk into your HIPAA risk analysis.
Deliverables
What you receive
What clients say
A partner that works at your pace
“Triden Group’s level of patience is noteworthy, especially when working with a public agency. We tend to move toward purchases much slower due to strict purchasing procedures. Triden Group feels like a true partner in achieving our security goals.”
IT Director, water district
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