Third-party risk management

Identify intelligence in third-party risk.

Know which suppliers put you at risk, and prove to your customers that you’re not one. We run third-party risk for you, or build the capability into your own estate.

Regulations

  • NIS2

  • DORA

  • UK NIS Regulations

  • Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

  • UK & EU GDPR

    Art. 28

  • EU AI Act

  • EU Cyber Resilience Act

  • UK Critical Third Parties regime

  • PRA SS2/21

    outsourcing

  • FCA SYSC 8

  • EBA Outsourcing Guidelines

  • Procurement Act 2023

  • Telecoms Security Act

  • CSDDD

    supply chain due diligence

  • Modern Slavery Act

  • DEFCON 658

  • Def Stan 05-138

  • NHS DSPT

Standards and frameworks

  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022

    A.5.19–5.23

  • ISO/IEC 27036

    supplier relationships

  • ISO 28000

    supply chain security

  • ISO 22301

    continuity

  • ISO/IEC 27701

    privacy

  • ISO/IEC 42001

    AI management

  • NIST CSF 2.0

    GV.SC

  • NIST SP 800-161

  • NCSC CAF

  • NCSC Supply Chain Principles

  • Cyber Essentials Plus

  • SOC 2

  • CSA STAR

  • PCI DSS v4.0

  • CIS Controls v8

  • CMMC / DFARS

Both directions

Risk runs both ways. So does our intelligence.

You rely on suppliers. Customers rely on you. We give you intelligence on the first and evidence for the second, so what you demand and what you can prove always line up.

YOUR SUPPLIERS

Can we trust them?

Cloud hosting

Monitored

Payroll provider

Verified

Logistics partner

Triaged

SaaS vendor

Verified

148

In scope

3

Need action

INTELLIGENCE IN →

Supply. Assured.

Intelligence in. Evidence out.
One view of both directions.

Intelligence-led tiering

Analyst triage

Evidence at source

Board-ready reporting

EVIDENCE OUT →

YOUR CUSTOMERS

Can they trust you?

Questionnaire

Answered

Customer audit

Scheduled

Assurance profile

Shared

Tender pack

Submitted

92%

Pre-answered

48h

Avg. response

Illustrative example

How we do it

Always-on intelligence.

We pair practitioner judgement with a curated library of leading third-party risk platforms. You get the outcomes, without buying, configuring or running another tool.

Always-on threat intelligence across your supply chain

Financial distress, sanctions and ownership changes, breaches, extortion claims and regional disruption, matched to your suppliers continuously. Our analysts triage every signal before it reaches you.

Live supplier signals

Illustrative

Financial

Credit downgrade at a single-source component maker

2m

Sanctions

Ownership change flagged at a freight forwarder

14m

Breach

Credential leak linked to a payroll provider

1h

Geo-risk

Port disruption near a critical supplier site

3h

Extortion

Leak-site claim naming a tier-2 logistics subcontractor

5h

1,240

Signals screened this week

37

Triaged by our analysts

5

Escalated to you

See the suppliers your register misses

We build your supplier picture from your systems and spend, not just the procurement register, then show which relationships are live, which have lapsed and where risk concentrates.

On the procurement register

Found in your systems and spend

Your organisation

One flaw, four tiers deep

One vulnerable component cascades through sub-tiers to you. We trace who is exposed before it lands.

Exposed

Not affected

You

61

On register

312

Found

48

Lapsed

Controls checked at source

AI-assisted collection reads controls directly from supplier and internal systems and re-checks them continuously. Our assessors review and sign off every conclusion.

MFA enforced on admin accounts

Verified

Backups restored and tested

Verified

Encryption at rest

Verified

Incident response plan

Awaiting

Supplier access reviewed

Verified

Control coverage

80% verified

Risk, mapped to place

Supplier sites are geolocated and live events plotted against them, so disruption near a critical site is flagged early.

Port strike, 12 km from tier-1 site

High

Flood alert near a supplier depot

Watch

Sanctions widened to a sub-tier region

Review

One connected picture of risk

Suppliers, systems, data flows and controls sit in a single linked model. Every finding traces back to its evidence, so boards and auditors can see exactly why a decision was made.

TRACE

Board finding

Control gap

Evidence

Sub-tier supplier

9,400

Relationships mapped

100%

Findings traced to evidence

1 click

From board report to source

One assurance profile. Every customer.

When you are the supplier, a single verified assurance profile answers customer reviews faster and ends repeat questionnaires.

Assurance profile verified

Shared with your customers

ISO/IEC 27001 certificate

Current

Cyber Essentials Plus

Valid

Penetration test summary

Q3 2026

Security questionnaire

Pre-filled

What we do

Run for you. Built with you. Owned by you.

Three ways to work with us: a managed service, expert consultancy, or a capability built into your own estate that you own outright. Every engagement covers both directions of your supply chain.

RUN FOR YOU

Managed third-party risk.

Our analysts and assessors run the programme on a library of leading platforms. You get the outcomes without buying, configuring or running another tool.

01

Managed TPRM programme

Onboarding, tiering, assessment, monitoring, remediation and board reporting.

02

Audits and assessments

Remote and on-site audits of critical suppliers, scoped to risk tier.

03

Customer assurance

Evidence packs, questionnaire responses and audit readiness for your customers.

Explore managed services

BUILT WITH YOU

Third-party risk consultancy.

Senior practitioners who have run security and supply chain risk in defence, nuclear and critical national infrastructure, working alongside your team.

01

Maturity and readiness

Benchmark your programme against DORA, NIS2, ISO/IEC 27036 and your regulator.

02

Programme design

Policy, risk appetite, tiering model and contract clauses.

03

Due diligence

Third-party risk due diligence for M&A, outsourcing and critical procurements.

Talk to a consultant

OWNED BY YOU · TPRM-IN-A-BOX

Own the capability.
Not the licence.

A third-party risk capability built inside your own estate, on the enterprise AI platform you already run. You own it outright.

Built in your own tenancy

Your data, suppliers and evidence never leave your environment.

AI-assisted from day one

Tiering, questionnaire review, evidence analysis and board reporting, with a human in the loop.

No per-supplier licence

Handover, training and optional support. Scale your supplier base without scaling cost.

Ask about TPRM-in-a-box

Our method

Six stages. One continuous chain.

One lifecycle, whichever way the risk flows. Baselined once, then kept running.

CONTINUOUS

01

Identify

Identify and categorise every supplier by criticality and security exposure.

02

Map

Trace dependencies through the sub-tiers to reveal cascading risk.

03

Assess

Test control effectiveness, in proportion to each supplier’s tier.

04

Defend

Apply resilient defence: remediation, clauses and continuity planning.

05

Measure

Track performance with live metrics and continuous monitoring.

06

Assure

Validate compliance and give your board and customers confidence.

Regulatory direction

Regulation has moved on. Has your supply chain?

Regulation has moved on.
Has your supply chain?

From the UK’s Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to NIS2, DORA, ISO/IEC 27001 and the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, you are now accountable for the suppliers you rely on, and expected to prove it. The same eight expectations come up every time. Our method is built around all of them.

Continuous, not annual

Ongoing monitoring of supplier services replaces the yearly questionnaire.

DORA · ISO/IEC 27001 A.5.22

Deeper visibility

See beyond tier one. Regulators can now designate critical suppliers in their own right.

NCSC PRINCIPLES · CS&R BILL

Board-level accountability

The management body owns third-party risk, and can be held to account for it.

NIS2 ART. 20 · DORA ART. 5

Proportionate approach

Controls scaled to each supplier’s criticality, not one size for all.

NIS2 ART. 21 · DORA ART. 4

Resilience focus

Plan for supplier failure, with tested exit strategies, not just compliance.

DORA ART. 28 · ISO 22301

Evidence-based assurance

Outcomes you can demonstrate to an auditor or regulator, not self-attestation.

NCSC CAF · ISO/IEC 27001

Formal risk management

A documented strategy, a register of third parties and recorded treatment decisions.

DORA ART. 28 · ISO 28000

Incident reporting in hours

24-hour early warnings mean your suppliers must tell you fast, and you must act faster.

NIS2 ART. 23 · CS&R BILL

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Supply Assure Limited
Registered in England and Wales
Company No. 16087547
VAT No. GB487026276
Registered office:
167–169 Great Portland Street
London W1W 5PF