10 Cybersecurity Criteria for Smarter Vendor Selection

**Executive summary:** This SecurityScorecard blog describes 10 security-focused criteria for vendor selection to reduce third-party and supply-chain risk, covering external security ratings, breach-history checks, access and integration scope, regulatory alignment, enforceable contract clauses, fourth-party risk, incident response maturity, credential hygiene, data storage/encryption practices, and vendor security culture, and it highlights SecurityScorecard’s Supply Chain Detection and Response (SCDR) platform.