Vendor & Third-Party Risk

Know which vendor's failure breaks which control — before it happens.

Third parties are dependencies. Vulnerabilities are signals. Incidents are evidence.

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The Outcome

Every vendor tied to the Practice Instances they support.

Vendor onboarding with questionnaires, tiered by risk, tied to the specific Practice Instances each vendor supports. Reassessments on schedule. Dependency health flags surface exactly which controls are affected when a critical vendor degrades. Scoped vendor portal replaces email attachments and shared logins.

How GRAC Delivers It

Four mechanisms. Continuous vendor visibility.

Built on the Dependency Registry

A third party is a dependency type. Every vendor tied to the Practice Instances they support, with health status, criticality, last-verified date, and reassessment cadence.

Questionnaires aligned to authority requirements

Templates for DPDP, RBI Outsourcing, ISO 27001 vendor requirements, SOC 2 sub-service organization criteria. Auto-score objective questions. Flag subjective for review. Link outcomes to controls.

Continuous integration where possible

API integrations pull ongoing signals from critical vendors (security posture, SOC 2 report status, uptime). Manual assurance tickets where APIs don't exist. Nothing slips.

Regulatory notification workflows

When a vendor incident triggers DPDP 6-hour, RBI or GDPR notification obligations, the workflow fires automatically. Draft notification pre-populated.

What Changes

Vendor risk becomes queryable.

  • Vendor-to-control impact is queryable in seconds
  • Reassessments never miss cadence
  • Vendor sees only what's shared — every external action logged
  • Incident response ties directly to affected Practice Instances
Case in point

17 Practice Instances flagged same day, not at next audit.

A fintech CISO managed 340 vendors across critical infrastructure and non-critical categories. Post-GRAC: 34 critical vendors on API-driven continuous assurance, 306 on tiered manual cadence. When one payment-processor vendor's SOC 2 report lapsed, 17 affected Practice Instances flagged — remediation started same day, not at next audit.

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