Vendor Assessments

Vendor Assessment

Screen potential third party suppliers or evaluate current business partners with a framework to categorize vendors based on the risk they could pose to you.

Vendor Assessment

What are Vendor Assessments?

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Vendor Assessment

ECI Vendor Assessments provide an in-depth review of the cyber security maturity of your third-party vendors. We help you safeguard your entire technology ecosystem by enabling you to understand the level of risk associated with using a certain third party vendors product or service.

Vendor Assessment benefits
Vendor Assessments play a role as part of wider governance, risk and compliance efforts to ensure your firm can remain secure, maintain business continuity, and aligned with regulatory requirements (including SEC frameworks and GDPR rules). Through our assessments, we can help your firm to quickly and more easily mitigate third (and fourth) party risks—rather than waiting for the worst to happen.

Solution highlights

  • Improve operational continuity
  • Find the areas where you could be most exposed
  • A cost-effective approach to vendor assessments
  • Aid the development of actionable plans to mitigate risk
Vendor Assessments

Challenge

What impact could others have on your firm?

Vendor Assessments

Organizations need to understand the security risks that can come with using third party applications and services. However, their self-certification can be limited in scope. If you don’t know what data they hold, where it is stored, or who can access it, this could be unnecessarily threatening your business continuity.

Solution

Mitigate vendor risks rather than respond to unexpected incidents

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    Build trusted relationships

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    Establish mutually beneficial and long-term partnerships with your vendors.

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    Greater control of your vendor base

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    See those who could be vulnerable and what impact this could have on your firm.

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    Meet compliance requirements

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    Demonstrate due diligence and that you are meeting industry compliance requirements.

On average, a company takes 277 days to detect a third-party data breach.

Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, IBM/Ponemon Institute

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Benefit

Identify who has access to your most sensitive data and defend against breaches through third party networks.

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Greater visibility of vendor security – and their weaknesses
Our reports show the maturity of your vendor’s security regimes and which areas need to be improved across 12 critical best practice security principles.

Identify the those who could impact you most
Understand which vendors have access to your critical or PII data and the level to which your firm’s ability to operate could be disrupted if they were to be compromised.

Find security gaps you weren’t aware of
With greater visibility of the potential risks posed by your third party vendors and applications, this allows precise focus on where you might need remediation.

49% of organizational data breaches were caused by third parties.

The State of Cybersecurity and Third-Party Remote Access Risk 2022, Ponemon Institute

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