VENDOR RISK MANAGEMENT
Your Security Is Only as Strong as Your Weakest Vendor.
Structured vendor risk management that gives you visibility into the third parties handling your data and systems.
THE CHALLENGE
Know Who Has Access. Know What Is at Stake.
Most data breaches and compliance failures do not start inside the organization that gets blamed for them. They start with a vendor, a processor, or a service provider whose access or handling of data was never properly assessed.
Rosen Burke Consulting builds practical vendor risk management programs: knowing who your vendors are, what they touch, how much risk each one carries, and what happens if one of them fails. The result is a program that satisfies PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and contractual due diligence requirements, without slowing down every new vendor relationship with the same heavy process.
WHAT WE DELIVER
A Practical Program for Every Stage of the Vendor Lifecycle.
Vendor inventory and tiering
A complete list of vendors and service providers, tiered by the data they access and the impact if they fail.
Contract security requirements
Standard security and data protection language for vendor contracts and statements of work, aligned to your compliance obligations.
Fourth-party and concentration risk review
Visibility into your vendors' own critical vendors, and flagging where too much depends on a single provider.
Program documentation
Policies and procedures an assessor or auditor will accept as evidence of a functioning vendor risk program.
Due diligence assessments
Security questionnaires, such as SIG or CAIQ, evidence review, and independent verification scaled to each vendor's tier.
Ongoing monitoring
Periodic reassessment, security rating tools, and breach notification tracking so vendor risk does not go stale between annual reviews.
Offboarding and access review
Confirmation that vendor access and data are properly removed when a relationship ends.
OUR APPROACH
How We Work
01
Inventory
We identify every vendor with access to your systems or data and confirm what each one actually touches.
02
Tier
We rank vendors by risk based on data sensitivity, access level, and business criticality.
03
Assess
We run due diligence proportional to each tier, from a light questionnaire to a full security review.
04
Monitor and reassess
We set a reassessment cadence and monitoring approach so the program stays current as vendors and contracts change.
WHO WE SERVE
Built for Complex Vendor Ecosystems.
Organizations that rely on cloud providers, payment processors, managed service providers, or outsourced functions, especially those under PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, or contractual security requirements from their own customers.
WHY ROSEN BURKE CONSULTING
Expertise That Fits Your Operations.
- Direct experience assessing vendor relationships as part of PCI QSA and compliance engagements, not just theoretical frameworks.
- Programs scaled to your vendor count and risk, not a one-size-fits-all checklist.
- Contract language and questionnaires your legal and procurement teams can actually use.
- SBA-verified SDVOSB with experience in enterprise and federal vendor ecosystems.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions
Not Sure How Much Risk Your Vendors Carry?
Request a free consultation and we will help you scope a right-sized vendor risk program.
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