5 Steps to Selecting a Vendor Risk Management Framework

This report provides guidance on managing third-party and supply-chain data breach risk, summarizing why vendor misconfigurations and human factors drive breaches, presenting five steps to select a third-party risk management framework (review compliance risk; understand frameworks; choose applicable frameworks; use multiple frameworks when needed; manage risk intelligently), and describing how SecurityScorecard’s Atlas and Professional Services can automate vendor due diligence and continuous monitoring.