Third Party Risk Management

Third-party risk management (TPRM) is more critical today than ever, but the traditional approaches—centered around static questionnaires—fall short in identifying real risks and making an impact.

At Sidekick Security, we take a radically different approach, focusing on actionable risk that you can actually control. Our innovative TPRM framework moves beyond checkboxes, enabling your organization to gain deeper visibility into the security posture of your suppliers, partners, and vendors.

By aligning with your specific risk profile and business objectives, we help you identify and mitigate the risks that truly matter.

Third and fourth party risk management

Two Ways to Engage

Project-Based

For organizations that need targeted third-party risk assessments or holistic evaluations of existing programs. Whether evaluating new suppliers, assessing tier-one critical ones, or preparing for an audit, our dynamic risk-informed assessments focus on the actual security and business continuity impact a vendor could have.

This engagement model ensures you make informed decisions quickly, without getting bogged down in outdated processes that eat your team’s valuable time and focus.

Project-Based

Ideal for: Organizations looking for targeted risk assessments of key suppliers or vendors, or looking to reevaluate their current processes.

What you get: Risk-based vendor assessments, actionable recommendations, and a clear prioritization of remediation steps tailored to your unique risk profile.

TPRM Program Operation

For organizations that need continuous oversight of their third-party ecosystem, Sidekick Security offers an ongoing TPRM program. We help build and manage a scalable, adaptive program that continuously monitors third-party risks and evolves with your business.

Our focus is on bridging the risks across the supplier-side and then how an organization deploys, uses, and integrates a supplier. We ensure you stay ahead of emerging threats to protect critical assets.

TPRM Program Operation

Ideal for: Organizations looking to build or maintain a comprehensive third-party risk management program with continuous, risk-based monitoring.

What you get: A complete program leveraging ongoing third-party risk assessments, real-time risk data, vendor monitoring, and a continuously updated risk management strategy.

Our Approach to Third Party Risk

Our philosophy on third party risk is that you need to bridge two key areas. The first is risk within the supplier environment or product. The second and bigger area is risk within your environment with how a supplier or third party tool operates.

Finding risks in stacks of documentation and vendor supplied artifacts

Supplier Risk

Elevate your approach from a spreadsheet or checkbox exercise based on self-attested risk or security posture. Your security is too important to rely on how other companies define risk categories.

It’s not about the suppliers, it’s about you. Which risks matter most to your business, its priorities and its goals? Which would be most serious? Which vulnerabilities could have a chain reaction in your infrastructure? Once you dig into your own security needs and reality, you can start asking suppliers the questions that really matter to your unique risk posture.

With Sidekick by your side, you’ll be able to ensure that all suppliers have a business-aligned risk classification

 

Internal Environmental Risk

You have internal security policies for a reason. Perhaps you are rigorous about SSO for employees, provide regular company-wide security training or incident response practice, or are assiduous about logging and observability. Whatever it is, you need to loop your suppliers into that same framework. 

We’ll assist you in proactively connecting your suppliers with the key risk management activities in your organization so that your vendors become part of your own secure environment, rather than bringing their vulnerabilities to you.

Managing and eliminating risk through configuration tuning

"Sidekick has been a true partner in helping us build out our security and privacy program here at the District. Their support has covered a wide spectrum for us, both technical and procedural. They've worked with us on performing risk assessments, developing security policy, deploying privacy initiatives, application penetration testing and managing new risks like generative AI.

– CISO, School District of Philadelphia

What You Get With Sidekick On Your Team

Partnership Over Point Solutions

Managing third party risk effectively isn’t a silver bullet type problem. We partner with you to make solutions long term and impactful.

Tailored Solutions, Tangible Results

Effective third party risk management is built around your business’ unique structure and needs. That’s what we do.

Results That Drive Your Mission

Third party relationships expand your org’s reach and capacity. With Sidekick, you’ll get the benefits with minimal risk.

Are You Ready?

Sidekick Security is here to help you build a security program that truly works for and enables your organization.

Are you ready to uncover and find and address your gaps?

Contact Sidekick Security today and take the next step toward a more resilient security program.