Vendor Onboarding & Continuous Monitoring.
Score a new vendor in hours, not the usual six-week review. Then watch them. When a tier-1 vendor's SBOM gains a KEV CVE between Tuesday and Wednesday, you know on Tuesday.
TPRM Is A Spreadsheet, Not A Posture.
Vendor security review takes six weeks. By the time it's done the questionnaire is stale. Nobody re-reviews after onboarding. When the vendor gets popped, you find out from the news.
Six weeks of email tennis
The vendor sends a SOC 2. You ask follow-up questions. They reply in three days. You ask three more. The whole onboarding stalls behind a single questionnaire that nobody really reads.
No SBOM verification on intake
The vendor ships you their SBOM. You receive it as a PDF. You never check whether it matches the binary you actually deployed. Drift between what they sent and what you ran goes invisible.
Continuous monitoring doesn't exist
Once the vendor is onboarded, the file sits in the TPRM platform. Six months later a KEV-listed CVE lands in their dependency graph. Nobody knows because nobody re-scans.
Tier-1 concentration is invisible
Three of your tier-1 vendors all depend on the same OSS library. When that library is compromised, you lose three vendors at once. You learned about the concentration in the post-mortem.
Intake In Hours, Watch Forever.
Stage 1 — TPRM Intake
Vendor uploads their SBOM and SOC 2; the platform pre-fills 80% of the security questionnaire from the documents. The remaining 20% is a structured conversation, not a 200-row spreadsheet.
Stage 2 — SBOM Verification
The vendor's declared SBOM is compared against what the platform reconstructs from the binary they shipped. Drift, missing components, and undisclosed transitive packages are flagged before contract signature.
Stage 3 — Continuous Watch
Once a vendor is onboarded, their SBOM joins your watch-list. New KEV CVEs in their graph trigger alerts within the hour. Tier-1 vendors get pager-grade routing; lower tiers get a daily digest.
From Intake To Continuous Alert.
A New Vendor In Four Hours
- t = 0Invite
Vendor receives a scoped intake link. Uploads SBOM, SOC 2, and product binary.
- t + 30 minEngine
Binary reverse-engineered to validate SBOM components. Drift report generated: 4 components in binary missing from declared SBOM.
- t + 1hEagle
Vulnerability scan against the verified SBOM. 1 KEV-listed CVE found in a transitive dependency.
- t + 2hQuestionnaire
80% of TPRM questions auto-filled from SBOM, SOC 2, and prior intake history. Reviewer adds 12 follow-up questions.
- t + 3.5hVendor reply
Vendor responds to follow-ups via the structured-conversation panel. KEV CVE confirmed not-reachable in production.
- t + 4hOnboarded
Vendor tier assigned, watch-list joined, quarterly review scheduled. Pager-grade alert wired for KEV deltas.
Your Vendor Watch-list Sees
Every vendor sits on your watch-list with a live posture. The platform speaks up when the posture moves.
What changed in the vendor's graph since the last review.
Hourly check, pager-grade routing for criticals.
When a vendor's core lib loses its last committer.
Which OSS libs are shared across your tier-1 vendors.
Auto-generated PDF for the TPRM committee.
Posture trend over the contract cycle.
Evidence retention, key-rotation, data-purge confirmations.
How A Financial-Services Team Caught A Tier-1 Vendor Before The Public Did
A tier-1 vendor's SBOM was watched continuously. At 03:14 a KEV-listed CVE landed in a transitive dependency the vendor itself hadn't yet noticed. The platform paged the customer's vendor-management lead at 03:18. By 09:00, the customer had already opened a coordinated conversation with the vendor, who confirmed the exposure and shipped a patch by end of day. Coverage didn't hit security press until 36 hours later. The customer was already remediated.
Onboard fast. Watch always.
Book a working session with the TPRM team. We'll walk through intake, verification, and the continuous-monitoring console.