Third-Party Risk Management
Vendor risk programs fail in two ways: questionnaires nobody answers, and evidence nobody reads. Z Cyber's Third-Party Risk Management service puts a dedicated risk analyst on your vendor portfolio, backed by our AI-native GRC platform. Vendors are tiered by inherent risk, sent questionnaires through a portal they can actually complete, and their SOC 2 reports, ISO certificates, and trust center documents get read by Atlas and reviewed by our team. Residual risk standing is ratified by your Executive Security Advisor each cycle, so every vendor rating has a person accountable for it.
What's Included
Vendor inventory and inherent risk tiering across the portfolio
Outbound security questionnaires with a vendor portal that requires no vendor accounts
Evidence review of SOC 2 reports, ISO certificates, and trust centers
Answer adjudication with escalation of the responses that matter
Residual risk standing per vendor, ratified by a named advisor each cycle
Continuous outside-in monitoring of your critical vendors
Vendor risk reporting for leadership, auditors, and customers
The team behind every engagement
Executive Security Advisor
Sets vendor risk appetite, ratifies residual standing each cycle, and drives the hard vendor conversations.
Risk Analyst
Manages the vendor portfolio day to day: tiering, questionnaire campaigns, evidence review, and escalations.
AI-Native GRC Platform
Runs the questionnaire portal, reads vendor evidence documents, adjudicates answers, and monitors vendors outside-in.
Who This Is For
Organizations with a growing vendor portfolio and no dedicated TPRM function, or teams drowning in questionnaire cycles whose vendor evidence gets filed rather than read.
Our Process
Inventory & Tier
Build the vendor inventory, classify by data access and business criticality, and assign inherent risk tiers.
Assess
Run questionnaire campaigns through the vendor portal and collect evidence documents for review.
Adjudicate
Atlas reads the evidence and clears or escalates each answer. Our analysts review the escalations and pursue what matters.
Ratify & Monitor
Your advisor ratifies residual standing per vendor, and critical vendors stay under continuous outside-in monitoring between cycles.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our vendors ignore questionnaires. How is this different?
Vendors receive a secure link to a portal that requires no account creation, supports evidence upload, and remembers prior answers. Shorter cycles and less friction get materially better response rates than spreadsheet attachments.
Do you actually read the SOC 2 reports?
Yes, and so does the platform. Atlas parses each report, certificate, and trust center page, extracts the findings and exceptions that matter, and escalates them for analyst review.
What does advisor ratification add?
A vendor rating is a judgment, and judgments need an accountable owner. Your Executive Security Advisor reviews the analyst's assessment and formally ratifies each vendor's residual standing, so when a customer or auditor asks who stands behind a rating, there is a name.
Can this run as a managed service?
Yes. Most clients run TPRM as an ongoing managed engagement: our risk analyst operates the portfolio in your platform workspace on a defined cadence, with your team retaining full visibility.
What about fourth-party and concentration risk?
The portfolio view surfaces subprocessor relationships and shared-vendor concentration so you can see when many critical services depend on one upstream provider.
Related Services
Security Risk Assessments
We identify and score your real risk scenarios from inherent to residual, quantify them in dollars, and tie every risk to a treatment plan your board can act on.
Cybersecurity Compliance Advisory
Expert-led compliance advisory across HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and cloud security - readiness assessments, gap analysis, and audit preparation.
Outside-In Threat Advisory
See yourself the way attackers, insurers, and your customers' security teams already do - continuously monitored exposure, interpreted by a senior advisor instead of a raw feed.
This engagement runs on our AI-native GRC platform
Ready to see where you actually stand?
Book a 30-minute briefing with the team that would run your program. We'll assess your needs, scope the right engagement, and follow up with a fixed-fee proposal - no pressure, no generic pitches.
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