Third-Party Risk

Your vendors are part of your attack surface.

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Business Risk Register

likelihood × impact, traced to the exposure driving it

IDBusiness RiskBandLITop DriverOwnerTreatment
BR-1Data Breach & ConfidentialityHigh53 Unrestricted file upload on portalCISOMitigate
BR-2Operational DisruptionHigh53 Unrestricted file upload on portalCTOMitigate
BR-3Fraud & Financial LossHigh53 Unrestricted file upload on portalCFOAccept
BR-4Regulatory & Legal ExposureHigh53 Deprecated TLS 1.0 on gatewayCLOMitigate
BR-5Reputational & Brand DamageHigh53 Deprecated TLS 1.0 on gatewayCMOMitigate
BR-6Intellectual Property TheftHigh53 Unrestricted file upload on portalCISOMitigate

Every band traces back to a specific, validated exposure — so the treatment decision is defensible.

Traced to 2 exposures behind all six risks

Annual questionnaires miss what changes weekly. Panop monitors every supplier continuously and generates NIS2 and DORA supply chain audit evidence automatically.

Key challenges

Supplier risk is assessed on an annual questionnaire cycle while supplier infrastructure changes weekly. Teams are held accountable for exposure they cannot see and cannot independently re-test.

  • Opaque Third-Party Attack Surface

    Limited visibility into suppliers’ cloud assets, exposed services, leaked credentials, or misconfigurations.

  • Manual & Point-in-Time Assessments

    Questionnaires and annual reviews cannot keep pace with dynamic supplier environments or emerging threats.

  • Compliance and Business Pressure

    Regulations (GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2) demand continuous visibility, while business leaders push for rapid cloud ROI without security slowing innovation.

How Panop helps

Panop monitors supplier infrastructure continuously and turns what it finds into supply chain evidence you can put in front of a regulator.

Discover supplier attack surface

Map each supplier's internet-facing assets, exposed services and leaked credentials without depending on what they self-report.

Firewalls & Security Groups

what is actually reachable across each boundary

PUBLIC EDGEPRODUCTION VPCCORPORATEEdge APIsPublic LBIngress FirewallApp ClusterCorporate ProdREACHABLE

Three boundaries, one route that actually connects — validated, not inferred from configuration.

Replace point-in-time questionnaires

Track supplier posture continuously so a change in their environment surfaces when it happens, not at the next annual review.

+326/06 – 21/08
26/0621/08
Critical 27 High 203 Medium 259 Low 99

Assess reachability into your estate

Identify where a supplier exposure connects to your own systems and data, and prioritise the paths that actually reach you.

Risk Evolution

exploitable chains, critical chokepoints & assets at risk over 30 days

Exploitable chains Critical chokepoints Assets at risk
12310203001/0802/0803/0804/0805/0806/0807/0808/0809/0810/0811/0812/0813/08

Daily snapshots accrue over time — the trend fills in as history is recorded.

Evidence supply chain obligations

Produce the continuous third-party monitoring records that NIS2 and DORA expect, mapped to the relevant control.

Maturity Model

NIST CSF 2.0 · current profile against target

Current Target profile
GVGovern2/5IDIdentify3/5PRProtect3/5DEDetect2/5RSRespond2/5RCRecover1/5

Every function is scored from live evidence, not a questionnaire — so the gap to target moves as the estate does.

Impact

Supplier posture tracked continuously rather than surveyed annually

  • Supplier exposures discovered independently of self-assessment questionnaires
  • Changes in supplier environments surfaced between review cycles
  • Third-party findings prioritised by reachability into your own estate
  • NIS2 and DORA supply chain evidence generated as monitoring runs
  • Faster escalation between security, procurement and vendor management teams

With Panop, see what your suppliers expose before it becomes your incident.

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