Third Party Security: Building Your Vendor Risk Program in 2026 | UpGuard

This guide explains third-party security (TPRM) and provides a five-step roadmap—risk classification, onboarding controls, contractual requirements, continuous monitoring, and secure offboarding—to identify, assess, and mitigate vendor-related cyber risks; it emphasizes documentation, certifications, SLAs, threat intelligence, AI-driven automation, and post-offboarding verification to reduce legal, operational, regulatory, reputational, and financial exposure.