Third-party risk has been a fixture of security program conversations for years. Most organizations with a mature GRC function have a vendor risk management process — tiering, assessments, questionnaires, contractual requirements. The process exists. The problem is that the scale and nature of supply chain attacks have outpaced what those processes were built to handle.…
Let’s start with a scenario that every GRC analyst has lived through. The Real-World Disconnect Imagine you are onboarding a new SaaS provider, “Vendor X.” You send them your standard SIG Core questionnaire (all 300 rows of Excel). Three weeks later, they reply. You mark them as “Compliant” and approve the contract. Two months later,…