Third party risk management

Creating a process to oversee your third party relationships can help you avoid damages to your bottom line and reputation

Benefit by building solid relationships through expert third party risk management

In a business landscape loaded with potential pitfalls like cyber threats, corruption, data loss and natural disasters that result in supply chain interruption, effective third party risk management is vital and will enable you to avoid risks and reputation damage.

What you need to know about third party risk management

The responsibility of managing the risk of your third party relationships falls on you, so to protect your business from issues associated with profitability, reputation, regulation and even litigation, it’s important to establish third party risk management processes that will allow you to oversee these issues.

Regulators have stepped up their standards regarding how companies protect themselves against third party issues, so third party risk management is becoming a more important part of your risk management plan.

Enhancing the third party risk management model

Inventory assessment

How do you get a complete picture of all your dependencies?

Developing a third party risk management process that lets you improve your ability to identify and inventory all the third parties you rely on will help you identify not just who you’re paying, but everyone else you’re dealing with.

Reporting structure

How do you determine how well your third party vendors are performing?

By putting mechanisms in place to ask your vendors and partners the right questions and create a reporting structure, you’ll be able to address gaps and provide more assurance that your company is on top of their third party risk management.

Monitoring services

What's the best way for you to manage third party relationships on an ongoing basis?

Designing a third party risk management service to keep you abreast of the activities of your third party relationships will give you real-time updates on your vendors and partners through a variety of methods, including data scans, social media scans and news articles.

Our third party risk management practice

We’ve designed our third party risk management service offerings to help you institute the due diligence procedures you need to make sure you can deal safely and responsibly with third parties.