Your organization can’t operate without vendors — but every vendor with access to your data, systems, or regulated operations is also a door into your business that you don’t fully control. When that door isn’t watched, the risk doesn’t stay with the vendor. It lands on you, your clients, and your compliance obligations.
Vendor Risk Management, Tailored to Your Business
Drawing on decades of experience supporting defense, government, and commercial sectors — including financial institutions, universities, engineering firms, law practices, and healthcare providers — UTRS InfoSec brings the same disciplined, evidence-based approach to vendor risk that we bring to every other part of your security program. Our advisors work with you to build a Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) program that fits your organization’s size, industry, and regulatory obligations, without forcing you into an enterprise-scale process you can’t sustain.
Our TPRM Capabilities
Vendor Inventory and Tiering: We identify your full vendor population, map data access and system connections, and tier vendors by criticality and risk against the frameworks you operate under (HIPAA, CMMC, PCI DSS, FTC Safeguards, GLBA, ALTA, FERPA, or a combination).
How We Perform Evidence-Based Vendor Assessments
- Right-Sized Review Scope: Lightweight intake and documented rationale for low-impact vendors; deeper evidence review for vendors with sensitive data, privileged access, or operational dependency.
- Evidence-First Methodology: We evaluate SOC 2 reports, HECVAT and CAIQ responses, insurance certificates, DPAs, and contractual protections before asking a vendor for anything new.
- Targeted Follow-Up: When evidence is incomplete, we request only what closes a meaningful gap. We avoid paperwork for its own sake.
Risk Register and Documentation: Every assessment produces a defensible finding based on what the vendor does, why it matters, what risk it creates, what evidence supports the decision, and when it’s due for review again. The result is documentation built to hold up under audit, insurance renewal, or regulatory inquiry — produced before you need it, not assembled after something goes wrong.
Ongoing Managed Monitoring: Vendors change, get acquired, add subprocessors, and let security exceptions accumulate. For clients who need continuous coverage, we transition your initial assessment into a managed monitoring service — tracking vendor posture over time, flagging material changes, and managing your reassessment cycle.
Why Choose UTRS InfoSec for Vendor Risk?
Most of our clients aren’t managing a single framework — they’re balancing several at once. We know what an OCR investigator looks for under HIPAA, what CMMC Level 2 requires for external service provider management, what the amended FTC Safeguards Rule expects of service provider oversight, and what cyber underwriters are asking before they renew a policy. We build one program that satisfies all of your obligations, not three separate systems that don’t talk to each other.
TPRM can be embedded into an existing vCISO engagement or scoped as a standalone service. UTRS InfoSec always sizes our solutions to your organization, backed by advisors who know your industry.
