vendor-risk
Safeguard articles tagged "vendor-risk" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
20 articles
Evaluating Vendor Attestations: SOC 2 / FedRAMP
A SOC 2 report does not mean the vendor is secure. Here is how to read attestations carefully, what FedRAMP actually proves, and how to ingest both at scale.
Fourth-Party Risk: The Supply Chain Of Vendors
Your vendors have vendors. Most TPRM programs stop at the third party and miss the fourth-party blast radius. Mapping the full chain is now a board-level expectation.
Automating Third-Party Risk Assessment: Moving Beyond Spreadsheets and Questionnaires
Why manual vendor risk assessments are failing, and how automation is reshaping third-party risk management for software supply chains.
Software Escrow and Supply Chain Continuity Planning
Most escrow deposits are write-only: nobody ever verifies they build. What escrow actually covers, when to pay for verification, and what continuity means for SaaS and OSS.
Vendor SBOM Ingest Program Blueprint
Asking vendors for SBOMs is easy. Building a program that actually does something with them is harder. Here is a working blueprint that scales past a hundred vendors.
Vendor Risk During M&A Due Diligence
M&A due diligence usually ignores vendor risk until the day after close. By then, the buyer has inherited a vendor portfolio with no visibility and no leverage.
TPRM Budget Justification For The Board
TPRM budgets get cut because the program cannot quantify what it prevents. Here is the framing that lands with boards: avoided losses, regulatory exposure, and continuity.
What is Third-Party Risk Management
Third-party risk management explained: what it covers, why SolarWinds and MOVEit made it board-level, and how modern TPRM differs from supply chain security.
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