Your vendors are an extension of your network. Treat them that way.
Some of the most damaging breaches in recent years didn't start with a direct attack - they came through a trusted vendor. SolarWinds. MOVEit. Change Healthcare. Third-party risk is no longer a checkbox on an annual questionnaire; it's a genuine and persistent threat that requires continuous management.
NueSecure's Third-Party Risk Management service helps you build a scalable, risk-based vendor management program - from initial onboarding assessments through continuous monitoring and contractual security requirements. We replace the illusion of security from questionnaire-only programs with genuine, evidence-based vendor risk visibility.
Comprehensive capabilities tailored to your security needs
A structured approach to delivering exceptional results, aligned with industry-leading frameworks including PTES, OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, and NIST standards.
Identify all third parties with access to your systems or data and classify them by risk tier (critical, high, medium, low) based on access level and data sensitivity.
Structured evaluation of new vendors prior to access provisioning - including questionnaire review, documentation analysis, and technical validation for high-risk vendors.
Review and strengthen security provisions in vendor contracts, including breach notification, audit rights, subprocessor controls, and security standard requirements.
Ongoing visibility into vendor security posture via external attack surface monitoring, security ratings, and breach intelligence.
Formal reassessment of critical vendors annually and upon significant changes (breaches, ownership changes, product updates).
Maintain a current risk register with remediation tracking and executive/board-ready reporting.
Defined protocols for managing vendor security incidents that affect your organization.
Real-world examples of how we've helped organizations like yours
A regional bank had over 200 active vendors with no formal risk tiering or assessment program - a finding from their most recent OCC examination. NueSecure built a compliant TPRM program from scratch: tiering methodology, assessment templates, and a vendor risk register. The bank's follow-up examination noted the TPRM program as a significant remediation success.
A health system discovered that a medical device vendor with network access had suffered a breach that potentially exposed PHI. NueSecure led the vendor breach investigation from the covered entity's perspective, determined the scope of exposure, and rewrote the vendor's BAA and security requirements to prevent future exposure.
A SaaS company needed SOC 2 Type II compliance but had weak vendor management controls. NueSecure designed a vendor management program aligned to the SOC 2 Availability and Confidentiality Trust Services Criteria, enabling the controls evidence that satisfied their auditor and earned clean Type II certification.
Find answers to frequently asked questions about our Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) services
Questionnaire-only programs create a false sense of security - vendors self-report, responses are rarely validated, and completed questionnaires often sit in a folder without driving any action. Genuine TPRM involves risk-tiered assessment, contractual security requirements, evidence validation for high-risk vendors, and continuous monitoring between assessments.
Tiering is the key. Not every vendor receives the same scrutiny. A critical SaaS provider with access to your production data environment deserves a rigorous assessment, documentation review, and perhaps a technical validation. A low-risk vendor who provides office supplies with no data access requires minimal oversight. We design programs that apply effort proportionally to risk.
Fourth-party risk refers to the security risks posed by your vendors' vendors - the subprocessors and technology providers that support the services you rely on. Fourth-party risk came into sharp focus with incidents like SolarWinds, where a supply chain attack affected thousands of organizations downstream. We assess material fourth-party exposures for critical vendors.
Most major frameworks require vendor management controls - ISO 27001 (A.15), SOC 2 (Vendor Management criteria), HIPAA (Business Associate Agreements), PCI DSS (Req. 12.8), and CMMC (SR domain). NueSecure designs TPRM programs that satisfy these requirements across frameworks simultaneously.
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