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NIST SP 800-18 Revision 2: what you need to know
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NIST SP 800-18 Revision 2: what you need to know

A plain-English executive briefing on NIST SP 800-18 Revision 2, the new system-level C-SCRM plan, continuous monitoring expectations, and what TPRM teams should do next.

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Agentic Third-Party Risk & Security
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Agentic Third-Party Risk & Security

AI-driven end-to-end TPRM for modern enterprises, spanning intake, assessment, contracts, continuous monitoring, SaaS security, and fourth-party visibility.

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Q&A with Clarence Chio: FCA Third-Party Incident Reporting and the End of Annual Vendor Reviews
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Q&A with Clarence Chio: FCA Third-Party Incident Reporting and the End of Annual Vendor Reviews

In this Q&A, Clarence Chio explains why the FCA’s updated operational resilience rules mark a shift in how regulators expect firms to manage third-party risk. The headline is simple: annual self-attestation is no longer enough when vendor failures can ripple across the financial system in real time.

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Vendor Risk in the AI Era: Why Annual Reviews Aren’t Enough with Clarence Chio
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Vendor Risk in the AI Era: Why Annual Reviews Aren’t Enough with Clarence Chio

Listen to the original Global Risk Community podcast episode: Vendor Risk in the AI Era: Why Annual Reviews Aren’t Enough with Clarence Chio .

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SOC 2 Is Broken. The Delve Scandal Is Showing Us How.
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SOC 2 Is Broken. The Delve Scandal Is Showing Us How.

A creative full-width analysis from Clarence Chio on what the Delve SOC 2 allegations reveal about audit trust, compliance automation, and the limits of document-based vendor risk.

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Delegated Trust Is Becoming the Largest Attack Surface in Modern Security
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Delegated Trust Is Becoming the Largest Attack Surface in Modern Security

Read the original Information Security Buzz article: Delegated Trust Is Becoming the Largest Attack Surface .

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Rethinking Cybersecurity For A World Of AI And Machine Identities
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Rethinking Cybersecurity For A World Of AI And Machine Identities

Read the original TechSpective article: Rethinking Cybersecurity For A World Of AI And Machine Identities .

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The Platform Beneath Your Vendors
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The Platform Beneath Your Vendors

One poisoned VS Code extension, one GitHub employee laptop, and 3,800 internal repositories listed for sale. This report reconstructs the TeamPCP breach chain and shows why nth-party exposure now lives below the vendor surface.

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The State of Continuous Monitoring
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The State of Continuous Monitoring

Continuous monitoring still alerts teams after exposure but rarely helps them act. This report examines why alert-heavy programs stall, what modern vendor response requires, and where TPRM teams need deeper operational context.

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Managing AI vendor risk: what third-party risk programs are missing
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Managing AI vendor risk: what third-party risk programs are missing

Most vendor risk questionnaires were written before any of your suppliers ran your data through a model. They ask about encryption, access control, and incident response—all of which still matter, and none of which tell you whether a vendor is training on your customer records, routing your data through a model provider you have never heard of, or letting an autonomous agent take actions on your behalf.

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How to evaluate a third-party risk management platform: a vendor-neutral framework
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How to evaluate a third-party risk management platform: a vendor-neutral framework

Most guides to 'the best TPRM software' are ranked lists, and most ranked lists are shaped by who paid for placement or who the author sells. This is not that. It is a framework for evaluating any third-party risk management platform on your own terms, so that when you do look at named products you already know what you are looking for and can tell a real capability from a slide.

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Third-party risk management, explained: how modern programs actually work
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Third-party risk management, explained: how modern programs actually work

Third-party risk management (TPRM) is the practice of identifying, assessing, and continuously monitoring the risk an organization inherits from the outside parties it relies on: software vendors, cloud providers, contractors, data processors, payment partners, and the suppliers behind all of them. The goal is not to eliminate those relationships. It is to understand what each one can do to you, decide whether that exposure is acceptable, and notice when it changes.

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