Cutting Vendor Assessment Turnaround Time Without Adding Headcount
Most 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.
Vendor security review used to be a back-office function measured loosely, if at all. Two things changed that. Third-party involvement in breaches roughly doubled to about 30% of all breaches (2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report), which moved vendor risk onto board agendas. And the business side started measuring you: every week a review runs is a week of delayed implementation and deferred ROI on software the organization already decided it wants. Assessment turnaround is now a number leadership sees — usually framed as a complaint.
The reflexive fix is headcount, and it's usually unavailable. The good news: in most programs, the majority of elapsed review time is not analysis. It's waiting — for documents, for the right internal owner, for a committee slot, for a decision. Waiting can be engineered out without adding anyone. This paper covers the four highest-yield interventions.
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