Solutions/ Supply chain risk
Manage third-party cyber risk before it becomes your risk
Your business depends on other organisations.
Suppliers, technology providers and third parties may hold your data, access your systems, provide critical technology or support important business processes.
Their cyber security can therefore become part of your cyber risk.
ConnectProtect Realm provides continuous Third-Party Cyber Risk Management, giving you ongoing visibility of the external cyber security posture of the suppliers and third parties that matter most to your organisation.
Monitor supplier risk. Understand what changes. Know where attention may be required.
Your supplier risk management doesn't
stop with the last
security assessment.
Supplier questionnaires, certifications, audits and security assessments all have an important role in Third-Party Risk Management. But the supplier that was secure when you assessed them may not have the same external security posture today.
Realm adds continuous external supplier monitoring to your existing third-party risk management process,
helping you maintain visibility between formal assessments.
Find the solution
What do you need to achieve?
Know your suppliers
Identify your critical
supplier cyber risk
Not every supplier presents the same level of potential impact. The organisations that hold your data, access your systems, provide critical technology or support important business processes may deserve greater attention.
Realm helps you focus your monitoring on the suppliers that matter mos
The outcome
Build visibility around the suppliers whose cyber risk could have the greatest impact on your organisation.
How Realm helps:
- Monitor selected suppliers and third parties
- View their external cyber security posture
- Identify potential vulnerabilities and exposures
- Compare monitored suppliers
Prioritise where attention may be required
Keep them visible
Continuous Third-Party
Cyber Risk Monitoring
Annual or periodic supplier assessments can create gaps between what you know about a supplier and what may be happening today.
Realm keeps watching.
Continuous third-party monitoring helps identify changes in the external cyber security posture of selected suppliers between formal assessments.
Instead of asking only:
“Were they secure when we assessed them?”
you can also ask:
“What can we observe about their security now?”
The outcome
Build visibility around the suppliers whose cyber risk could have the greatest impact on your organisation.
How Realm helps:
- Monitor selected suppliers and third parties
- View their external cyber security posture
- Identify potential vulnerabilities and exposures
- Compare monitored suppliers
Prioritise where attention may be required
know what's exposed
Supplier Vulnerability
Monitoring
A supplier may introduce cyber risk without informing you directly. External vulnerabilities, exposed services, security configuration issues or credential exposure can potentially change the risk associated with a third party.
Realm provides supplier vulnerability monitoring to help identify potential externally observable vulnerabilities and weaknesses associated with monitored suppliers
The outcome
Gain another source of ongoing intelligence to support supplier cyber risk decisions.
How Realm helps:
- Monitor selected supplier domains
- Identify potential externally observable vulnerabilities
- Identify potential exposures
- Monitor changes in external cyber security posture
Escalate meaningful findings for investigation
Realm does not control your suppliers’ infrastructure, so remediation normally remains the supplier’s responsibility. Instead, Realm gives you information that can support better-informed conversations with
them.
know who needs what
Prioritise Third-Party
Cyber Risk
Managing supplier cyber risk can quickly become a combination of questionnaires, spreadsheets, annual reviews and chasing suppliers for answers. You don’t need to monitor every organisation your business has a relationship with. Start with the suppliers that matter most.
Realm helps you identify potential areas of concern and compare selected suppliers so you can focus attention where potential risk appears greatest
The outcome
Spend less time treating every supplier the same and more time focusing on the suppliers that could have the greatest impact.
Prioritise suppliers that:
- Hold your data
- Access your systems
- Provide critical technology
- Provide essential services
- Support important business processes
- Could significantly affect your customers
- Could create regulatory or reputational consequences if compromised
let them decide
Third-Party Risk Management
for Procurement
Supplier risk should not only be considered after a supplier has been selected. Cyber security information can support supplier selection and ongoing supplier reviews.
Realm gives Procurement teams another source of external cyber risk information to support those decisions.
The outcome
The outcome: Bring current external cyber security information into supplier selection and ongoing supplier reviews.
Useful for:
- Supplier selection
- Supplier reviews
- Critical supplier identification
- Ongoing supplier monitoring
- Supplier risk discussions
Strengthen what exists
Managed TPRM
Cyber Security Monitoring
Realm is not designed to replace your existing supplier due diligence. Questionnaires, certifications, contractual controls, audits and other assessments can provide valuable information about a supplier’s internal controls and security practices.
Realm complements those processes with continuous outside-in monitoring of what can be observed externally.
The outcome
The outcome: Build a more complete picture of supplier cyber risk by combining traditional due diligence with ongoing external visibility.
Realm adds:
- Continuous third-party monitoring
- Supplier security monitoring
- External visibility
- Potential vulnerability monitoring
- Risk identification
- Supplier comparison
- Human investigation
Get continuous supplier visibility
Third-Party Cyber Risk Management for Risk & Compliance
Risk and Compliance teams need to understand how supplier cyber risk fits into the wider risk profile of the organisation.
Realm adds continuous external monitoring to existing Third-Party Risk Management processes, helping teams maintain visibility between formal assessments.
The outcome
The outcome: Support ongoing supplier risk oversight with current external cyber security information.
Realm can help Risk & Compliance teams understand:
- Which suppliers matter most
- What can be observed externally
- What has changed since an assessment
- Which suppliers may require greater attention
- Where further supplier engagement may be appropriate
Get a clear view
Third-Party Cyber Risk
Management for Leadership
Leadership does not need another enormous supplier spreadsheet. They need to understand where potential cyber risk could affect the organisation.
Realm helps provide visibility of the external cyber security posture of the suppliers and third parties the business depends upon.
The outcome
Understand potential third-party cyber risks and where management attention may be required. Start with the suppliers that could have the greatest impact on your organisation and expand monitoring as your requirements grow.
Have better supplier conversations
From Supplier Monitoring
to Supplier Engagement
Identifying a potential cyber security concern is only part of the process.
The next question is: What do we do about it?
Realm is designed to help you identify where you need to look and which suppliers you may need to talk to.
ConnectProtect analysts can investigate meaningful findings and provide additional context, helping your team understand what has changed and why it may matter. That information can then support better-informed supplier conversations and your wider Third-Party Risk Management process.
The outcome
Move from supplier chasing and assumptions towards more informed, evidence-led conversations.
Realm helps you:
- Monitor selected suppliers
- Detect potential changes
- Understand what may matter
- Engage suppliers with better information
Make cyber security simple again.
