Third-Party Risk Management Checklist

30% of breaches now involve a vendor. Annual questionnaires are not enough. If you still evaluate vendor risk once a year with a spreadsheet, your program has a gap attackers have already found. This checklist covers the 8 controls for real-time third-party risk management: critical vendor mapping, continuous monitoring, least-privilege access, vendor compromise in your IR plan, contract security terms, fourth-party risk assessment, automated security ratings, and vendor offboarding procedures.