Modern businesses rely heavily on external entities like suppliers, vendors, and partners. These relationships form a complex network known as the supply chain. Supply chain/third-party risk management in cybersecurity focuses on identifying, assessing, and mitigating the risks that arise from these interconnected relationships.  

These risks can include:

• Data breaches: A vendor with weak security practices could expose sensitive data belonging to your organization.  

• Operational disruptions: A cyberattack on a critical supplier could disrupt your business operations.  

• Compliance violations: A third party failing to meet regulatory requirements could lead to fines and legal issues for your organization.  

• Reputational damage: A security incident at a partner organization could negatively impact your company's reputation.

How ThreatNG Helps in Supply Chain / Third-Party Risk Management

ThreatNG offers a robust set of capabilities that can significantly enhance your supply chain/third-party risk management program:  

1. Comprehensive Vendor Assessment:

• Supply Chain & Third-Party Exposure: ThreatNG provides dedicated assessments for third-party vendors, evaluating their security posture, identifying potential vulnerabilities, and highlighting potential risks they pose to your organization.  

• Domain Intelligence: Gather detailed information about a vendor's digital infrastructure, including subdomains, IP addresses, certificates, and exposed services. Identify misconfigurations, outdated software, and potential security gaps.  

• Sensitive Code Exposure: Uncover potential risks hidden in vendors' public code repositories. Identify exposed credentials, API keys, and sensitive configurations that attackers could exploit.  

• Dark Web Presence: Monitor the dark web for mentions of your vendors, leaked credentials, or any evidence of their involvement in data breaches or cyberattacks.  

2. Continuous Monitoring and Alerting:

• Continuous Monitoring: ThreatNG monitors your vendors' security posture, providing real-time alerts on new vulnerabilities, suspicious activities, and emerging threats.  

• Social Media Monitoring: Track social media for any mentions of your vendors that could indicate security incidents, data leaks, or negative sentiment that could impact your organization.

• Ransomware Susceptibility: Assess the likelihood of your vendors falling victim to ransomware attacks, allowing you to proactively address potential risks and ensure business continuity.  

3. Collaboration and Remediation:

• Reporting: Generate detailed reports on your vendors' security posture, including risk scores, vulnerability assessments, and prioritized remediation recommendations. Share these reports with vendors to facilitate collaboration and improve their security practices.  

• Correlation Evidence Questionnaires: Use dynamically generated questionnaires to gather essential information about your vendors' security controls, policies, and incident response capabilities.  

• Policy Management: Define and enforce consistent security standards and requirements for your vendors through customizable policies and risk-scoring frameworks.  

Complementary Solutions and Services:

• Security Rating Services: Integrate ThreatNG with security rating services to obtain independent assessments of your vendors' security posture and benchmark them against industry standards.  

• Vendor Risk Management Platforms: Utilize dedicated vendor risk management platforms to streamline vendor onboarding, automate security assessments, and centralize risk management processes.  

• Contract Management Systems: Integrate with contract management systems to ensure that security requirements and obligations are clearly defined and enforced in vendor contracts.

Examples of ThreatNG's Investigation Modules in Action:

• Domain Intelligence: Identify a vendor using outdated SSL certificates on their website, indicating potential vulnerabilities and weak security practices.

• Sensitive Code Exposure: Discover a vendor's API keys exposed in a public code repository, highlighting a critical security risk that could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data.  

• Cloud and SaaS Exposure: Identify a vendor with misconfigured cloud storage buckets, which could potentially expose sensitive data to unauthorized access.  

• Dark Web Presence: Find mentions of a vendor in connection with a data breach on a dark web forum, indicating a potential compromise that could impact your organization.

By leveraging ThreatNG's comprehensive capabilities and integrating with complementary solutions, organizations can effectively manage supply chain and third-party risks, strengthening their overall security posture and protecting themselves from potential cyber threats.