Third-Party Incident Response Service
Quickly discover, score and remediate risks from vendor breaches
Many organizations struggle to get timely information about data breaches affecting their supply chains. Delays between a vendor incident and your own risk identification, analysis and mitigation leave your organization exposed to operational disruptions, fines and customer losses. However, manual event notification processes only slow risk assessment and remediation at a time when speed is essential.
The Prevalent Third-Party Incident Response Service enables you to rapidly identify and mitigate the impact supply chain breaches by centrally managing vendors, conducting event assessments, scoring identified risks, and accessing remediation guidance.
Key Benefits
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Automate the collection and analysis of vendor incident information, enabling your team to focus on risk mitigation
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Speed critical response time by enabling third parties to proactively submit event notifications and updates
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Be well prepared for board and executive questions regarding the impact of supply chain incidents
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Demonstrate proof of your third-party breach response plan with auditors and regulators
See It in Action
Watch this 5-minute video to see how the Third-Party Incident Response Service makes it easy to discover, quantify and remediate third-party risks to your business.
Key Capabilities
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Unlimited Vendor Onboarding & Management
Build a centralized vendor repository using an API connection to existing tools, a comprehensive intake form, or bulk upload from a spreadsheet. Requires Prevalent Platform Essentials.
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Incident Management Assessment
Leverage Prevalent's continuously updated and customizable event and incident management assessment questionnaire to determine the impact of incidents affecting your vendors.
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Assessment Scheduling & Management
Monitor real-time questionnaire completion progress, assign risk owners, and set automated chasing reminders to keep surveys on schedule.
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Proactive Vendor Assessments
Enable third parties to proactively report incidents using a standardized event reporting assessment.
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Risk Scoring
Quickly quantify third-party risk levels with consolidated views of risk ratings, counts, scores, and flagged responses for each vendor.
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Central Risk Register
Normalize, correlate and analyze information across assessment results for unified reporting and remediation.
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Breach Event Notification Monitoring
Access a database containing 10+ years of data breach history for thousands of companies around the world. Includes types and quantities stolen data; compliance and regulatory issues; and real-time vendor data breach notifications. (Licensed separately)
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Automated Response Actions
Leverage a library of workflow rules to trigger automated playbooks that enable you to act on risks according to their potential impact to the business.
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Built-in Remediation Guidance
Get guidance from built-in remediation recommendations to reduce risk.
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Central Risk Reporting Dashboard
Identify, alert and communicate exceptions to common behavior with built-in report templates.
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Data & Relationship Mapping
Identify relationships between your organization and third parties to visualize information paths and determine at-risk data.
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Flexible Collection Options
Manage an unlimited number of vendors and assessments yourself, or have Prevalent experts perform incident response collection on your behalf.
Package Options
Delivered either as a managed service or as a self-service platform, the solution helps security teams automate the critical tasks required to quickly discover, score and remediate risks from vendor data breaches.
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Number of Vendors to Manage |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
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Number of Vendors to Assess |
Unlimited |
Up to 2,500 |
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Frequency of Assessments |
Unlimited |
4x per year |
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Ready to accelerate your third-party incident response?
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White Paper
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A step-by-step guide to building a faster, smarter third-party incident response program.
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