Automating Vendor Risk Management and Assessments

Organizations face growing cybersecurity risk from third- and fourth-party vendors; this document explains how automated vendor risk management (VRM) tools — including automated questionnaires, security ratings, and continuous monitoring — can accelerate assessments, enable scalability, and improve collaboration. It emphasizes operationalizing vendor security through automation and highlights SecurityScorecard's Atlas platform as a solution to validate, remediate, and continuously monitor vendor-related risks at scale.