Types of Vendor Risk and How to Mitigate Them Vendor partnerships enable organizations to innovate, scale operations, and improve service delivery. Yet these same relationships introduce exposures that can impact operational stability and compliance integrity. When third-party relationships are not...

Essential Guide to Third-Party Due Diligence Modern organizations operate through a complex web of vendors, suppliers, contractors, and service providers. These partnerships enable innovation, efficiency, and growth, but they also expose companies to new layers of risk that can affect...

On June 25th, Shared Assessments hosted another in a series of “All Committee” meetings designed to bring together members from a diverse set of TPRM interest groups to engage on a single topic. The June meeting’s focus was “From Insight...

Understanding The Role Of Third-Party Vendors In Business Operations Imagine a world where your business depends on numerous external partners, each essential to your success yet also bringing potential risks into play. Third-party vendors are exactly that —external companies providing...

Shared Assessments’ latest TPRM professional resource, Effective TPRM Foundations: Building Business Continuity and Operational Resilience to Strengthen Supply Chains, provides strategies for leveraging operational resilience and business continuity planning to build supply chain resilience. The resource underscores how quantifiable metrics...

Shared Assessments newest paper, Third & Nth Party Continuous Monitoring: Standing Up An Effective Program, provides specific guidance on standing up a continuous monitoring program in any industry. Many organizations lack clarity around the volume of third parties and Nth...