Vendor Risk Management Specialists

SMALL ORGANIZATION

Is your team slammed with new vendor applications and existing vendor evaluations? Are you trying to prepare for upcoming audits while you manage your vendor portfolio? Let Venture Lynk’s highly experienced analysts jump in and help your team stay afloat. Venture Lynk can come in and quickly put your team in a proactive decision making position and pull you out of the 10 to 12 hour work day cycle.

Venture Lynk can provide a total solution or a la carte services for vendor management groups of any size. We offer, Information Security, Cyber Security, and Financial Health Risk Assessments for new applicant and exiting vendors. We also offer active cyber risk and financial risk monitoring. Venture Lynk will deliver its work product and services within whatever vendor management platform or database a client is utilizing which means our clients don’t have to pay for software subscriptions or worry about another system implementation to start working with us. Our clients can immediately start receiving and utilizing our work product to become more comprehensive and efficient at making vendor risk related decisions on 3rd, 4th, and 5th party vendors.

We Can Help Your Business

  • Reduce the time and effort it takes to evaluate a vendor
  • Use our information and cyber security experts that are retired military info sec and cyber experts
  • Strategize and prepare for upcoming regulatory changes related to vendor management
  • Manage communications with your vendors during the vendor application or vendor renewal period, or on demand
     

Constant Daily Cyber Risk Monitoring

1. Monitor

Monitor each vendor public and each remote staff IP addresses

2. Evaluate
Produce A to F risk scorecard
3. Identify Vendors
Identify most vulnerable vendors
4. Identify Risk Exposure
Use Open FAIR model to identify risk exposure in financial terms
5. Assess

Assess the compliance level of your vendor to reduce 3rd party risk

6. Recommend

Recommendations on how to remediate

7. Verify

Verify vendor remediation

Cyber Risk Monitoring

FULL SERVICE

VLC will function as Mission Control for the clients Cyber Security Risk Monitoring efforts. All reporting, alerts, and platform functionality will be designed and customized to the needs of the client’s vendors by VLC. A one-hour debriefing meeting will occur every Monday or every other Monday depending on market conditions. At the debriefing meeting, VLC will review immediate threats and potential threats in addition to providing remediation suggestions for all identified threats. This service level will allow client IT leadership and staff to maintain the necessary capacity for all other IT related responsibilities while also maintaining constant monitoring of the cyber security threats unknowingly created by the client’s vendors.

Financial and Business Risk Evaluation

VLC will function as Mission Control for the clients Cyber Security Risk Monitoring efforts. All reporting, alerts, and platform functionality will be designed and customized to the needs of the client’s vendors by VLC. A one-hour debriefing meeting will occur every Monday or every other Monday depending on market conditions. At the debriefing meeting, VLC will review immediate threats and potential threats in addition to providing remediation suggestions for all identified threats. This service level will allow client IT leadership and staff to maintain the necessary capacity for all other IT related responsibilities while also maintaining constant monitoring of the cyber security threats unknowingly created by the client’s vendors.

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Automated Service Delivery

Constant cyber risk security risk monitoring (API Integration?)

  • Weekly debriefs from Venture Lynk Mission Control
  • Identify and recommend specific steps so your vendors can remediate problems quickly

Business and financial risk evaluations of all tier 1 vendors

  • Get weekly alerts of critical changes impacting your vendors
  • Provided reports showing quarterly business and financial trends to see the bigger picture

Benefits of
Monitoring Your Vendors

  • Regulatory compliance
  • Easier preparation for and higher performance in regulatory audits
  • Internal capacity creation for vendor risk management and IT teams by using a vendor risk management specialist
  • Establishing a proactive posture towards vendors to ensure ongoing compliance with your standards
  • Early warning system to detect business, financial and cybersecurity risks so action can be taken to mitigate and protect your supply chain

63% of breaches originate from hacked 3rd parties“Data Risk in the Third-Party Ecosystem”


– Ponemon Institute, 2018

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