TPRM & Remote Learning: Defending the Education Sector | UpGuard

This report outlines why colleges and universities need robust vendor risk management (VRM), detailing third- and fourth-party risks to sensitive data and operations, and recommending practices such as HECVAT-based assessments, adoption of cybersecurity frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, SIG Lite), vendor mapping, contractual security requirements, continuous monitoring, incident response planning, risk tiering, and maturity modeling. It highlights technology solutions that automate and scale VRM—including third‑party risk management platforms, security rating services, compliance management, due diligence services, and AI-driven monitoring—and showcases how UpGuard’s platform and services support these capabilities.