Third-Party Risk Management Consulting
Third-party risk management covers the organization's own vendors, suppliers, and other third parties. SVN Noir establishes the inventory, tiering, due diligence, contract requirements, and monitoring that give leadership one consistent view of vendor exposure.
Programs usually strain at the same points: reviews pile up, similar vendors get different decisions, and nobody is sure who may accept the risk.
Signs the Program Needs Work
- Vendor reviews create bottlenecks for procurement, business owners, or security teams.
- Similar vendors receive different risk decisions depending on who reviews them.
- Nobody has a reliable view of which vendors hold sensitive data or support critical processes.
- Clients, regulators, or auditors ask how the organization oversees its suppliers, and the answer takes a week to assemble.
Program Components
Vendor inventory and tiering
Every vendor, grouped by business criticality, data sensitivity, and strategic dependence.
Due diligence and assessment
Review depth scaled to tier: rigorous for critical vendors, fast for low-risk suppliers.
Contract and security requirements
Standard security expectations for vendor agreements, set with procurement and counsel.
Review workflow and decision rights
Intake, approval, and risk acceptance authority, so reviews stop stalling and similar vendors get similar decisions.
Ongoing monitoring
Reassessment cadence, issue tracking, and triggers for review when a vendor or the business changes.
Portfolio reporting
Leadership's view of concentration, dependency, and exposure across the vendor base.
Offboarding and exit
Data return, access removal, and transition steps when a vendor relationship ends.
Criticality Sets the Depth
Review effort follows business criticality. A vendor that holds sensitive data or supports a critical process gets rigorous review, and a low-risk supplier moves through quickly. Third-party exposure is planned together with operational resilience, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
Related Capabilities
Also part of Cyber Risk Consultancy.