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Use Case: Third-Party & Supply Chain Risk

Know Which Vendors Are Putting Your Operations at Risk

Vendors and partners have become one of the fastest-growing and highest-impact attack surfaces. CyberHQ® gives you continuous visibility across your supply chain and the evidence to prove your resilience to regulators and customers.

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Third-party risk mapped to critical services

Visibility into systemic supply chain exposure

Know which dependencies most threaten resilience

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Point-in-Time Audits Don't Protect You from Today's Threats

 

Your vendor list grew faster than your ability to assess it. Annual questionnaires, static risk scores, and periodic reviews tell you what a third party looked like at a moment in time. They don't tell you what it looks like today.

SOCI Act, APRA CPS 234, NIS2, and DORA all require demonstrable supply chain oversight. Not a documented process. Actual evidence of ongoing monitoring and control. The gap between what most organizations have and what regulators expect is wider than ever.

And the risk runs in both directions. Your vendors expose you to inbound risk. Your customers are assessing your posture before they sign a contract. Without a way to share real-time evidence of your own resilience, you become the weak link in someone else's supply chain.

What CyberHQ® Does Differently

Monitor your vendors continuously, not just at assessment time: CyberHQ® reflects your live environment rather than a snapshot from last quarter, so your third-party risk view moves with your actual exposure.

Unify third-party risk data into a single, actionable view: CyberHQ® assesses every vendor relationship against the same standard, eliminating gaps between systems and giving you one consistent record to act on.

Turn inbound vendor risk management into an outbound trust signal: CyberHQ®'s Trust Portal lets you share your real-time security posture and certifications with customers and partners, building digital confidence and accelerating sales cycles.

Status of Entities

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"Very cool and much needed for the security industry. Most importantly, you immediately elevate our executive and board reporting capabilities from 1 to 10."

Major Financial Services Company

How CyberHQ® Supports Third-Party & Supply Chain Risk

Three capabilities that give you continuous control over inbound vendor risk and outbound trust.

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Entity & Vendor Management

Centralize the security posture management of your third parties, sub-processors, and internal business units in one place. CyberHQ® maps vendor risk directly to the critical services and operations that depend on them, so you know which relationships carry real exposure to your business.

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CyberHQ® Connect

Integrate with third-party risk platforms to automate continuous evidence collection. Instead of point-in-time assessments, CyberHQ® keeps your vendor risk data live so your view reflects current posture, not last year's questionnaire.

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Trust Portal

Share your real-time security posture and certifications with customers and partners through a secure, public-facing interface. When enterprise procurement teams require evidence of resilience, the Trust Portal gives you a defensible answer that stays current.

You Already Manage Vendors; CyberHQ® Connects Their Risk to What Actually Matters

CyberHQ® does not replace the third-party risk tools and processes your team has built. It integrates with them, maps vendor risk to your critical services and operations, and reveals the exposure you couldn't see before.

Connected to 100+ tools via CyberHQ® Connect, including cloud, security, IAM, OT, GRC, and third-party risk platforms.

Assess once, comply many. The Master Control Framework (MCF) automatically maps controls across 20+ frameworks, including NIST CSF 2.0, ACSC Essential Eight, APRA CPS 234, SOCI Act, NIS2, DORA, and CIRCIA

Entity & Vendor Management centralizes posture management of third parties, sub-processors, and internal business units in one platform.

75%

reduction in manual compliance effort

90%

reduction in compliance costs

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integrators & connectors

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supported compliance frameworks

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does CyberHQ® enable third-party and supply chain risk management?

CyberHQ® centralizes vendor security posture management through Entity & Vendor Management, integrates with platforms including UpGuard, SecurityScorecard, BitSight, and RiskRecon via CyberHQ® Connect, and maps third-party risk directly to the critical services and operations your organization depends on. The Trust Portal then allows you to share your own real-time security posture with customers and partners. The result is continuous, business-context visibility across your supply chain rather than point-in-time assessment.

Can we share our own security posture with customers who are assessing us?

Yes. The Trust Portal is a secure, public-facing or partner-facing interface within CyberHQ® that lets you share real-time security posture and certifications with customers and partners. It is the outbound side of supply chain risk management: demonstrating your own resilience to the organizations that depend on you.

How does Entity & Vendor Management work?

Entity & Vendor Management is a centralized module within CyberHQ® that allows you to manage the security posture of your third parties, sub-processors, and internal business units from a single interface. Each entity is mapped to the controls, frameworks, and business services relevant to it, so risk is assessed in the context of operational dependency rather than as an isolated score.

Does CyberHQ® monitor vendors automatically?

CyberHQ® Connect automates continuous evidence collection from connected third-party risk platforms. Rather than relying on scheduled assessments or manual questionnaire cycles, the platform keeps your vendor risk data current through automated ingestion, so your view of each vendor reflects their current posture, not a historical snapshot.

Can CyberHQ® help us meet our SOCI Act, NIS2, or DORA supply chain obligations?

CyberHQ® supports your supply chain obligations under NIS2, DORA, SOCI Act, and APRA CPS 234 by replacing periodic assessments with continuous, automated vendor risk monitoring. CyberHQ Connect automates evidence collection from connected third-party risk platforms, keeping your vendor risk data current through automated ingestion rather than manual questionnaire cycles. The Master Control Framework maps your controls - including those governing third-party and supply chain risk - across all applicable frameworks simultaneously, so your evidence of ongoing monitoring is structured, consistent, and ready when regulators ask for it.

What is a Cyber Resilience Command platform?

A Cyber Resilience Command Platform is the intelligence layer that sits above your existing security ecosystem and unifies what your other tools cannot connect on their own. Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) tools quantify risk. GRC tools track compliance. Threat tools detect attacks. Exposure tools find vulnerabilities. But they remain disconnected. CyberHQ® solves the full problem, connecting risk, threat, compliance, and business-context impact to enable clear, business-informed decisions. It does not replace your tools. It makes sense of them.

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