Practical guides on vendor risk, third-party assessments, and security reviews
A vendor review has two outputs: a risk decision and a record. Here's how to build the record that proves your decision was reasonable given what was knowable — and protects the person whose name is on the approval.
Read whitepaperThird-party risk frameworks assume a team. Most programs are one person. Here are five disciplines that let a team of one run a credible, defensible vendor-assessment program.
Read whitepaperThe backlog isn't debt to pay down — it's a permanent condition of demand exceeding capacity. Here's how to manage it on the record, so an unreviewed vendor becomes a managed risk instead of an unknown one.
Read whitepaperMost vendor-review time is waiting, not analysis — which is why hiring rarely helps and process changes reliably do. Four interventions that cut turnaround by half with the same team.
Read whitepaper“The big health systems already use them — why are we making a fuss?” The three-part answer that holds the line on review depth without burning the relationship, and the fallback that protects you when you're overruled.
Read whitepaperA vendor questionnaire measures willingness to give the right answers, not truth. Here's which claims must be verified, what counts as verification, and how to document the ones you accepted on faith.
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