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Know what changed at your vendors before your vendors tell you.

Continuous monitoring across trust centres, subprocessor pages, and public filings — so your security team sees changes within hours, not quarters.

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“We found out a vendor added a subprocessor in China by reading their quarterly newsletter. By then we had already renewed the contract.”

— what we hear from security teams

“Our annual questionnaire tells us what a vendor claimed twelve months ago. I need to know what changed last Tuesday.”

— what we hear from security teams

“I have 200 vendors and two analysts. Running assessments on a calendar is not a risk program — it is a documentation exercise.”

— what we hear from security teams

Jobs to be done

What CISOs and Security Teams use TrustVendor to accomplish.

Detect changes before they become incidents.

TrustVendor watches trust centres, subprocessor pages, Certificate Transparency logs, and public filings for every vendor in your register. When a vendor adds a subprocessor, revises their DPA, or lets a certification lapse, you see a typed signal with the exact diff within hours — not at your next scheduled review.

Triage by material impact to your specific exposure.

Not every change at every vendor is urgent. The Triage agent scores each signal against the data classes, integration depth, and jurisdiction you actually share with that vendor. A subprocessor added in a region your SCCs do not cover is critical. The same change for a vendor that only receives telemetry is informational.

Route alerts to the right channel, every time.

Critical signals reach your security on-call Slack channel within 15 minutes. Medium signals go to a weekly digest. Every routing rule is per-vendor-group and per-severity — so PHI vendors and commodity tools get different treatment without manual triage on your side.

Prove your program to auditors and the board.

Every signal has a timestamped lifecycle: new, acknowledged, investigating, resolved. Every score traces to hash-verified evidence in an immutable archive. When your auditor asks how you responded to a vendor breach notification, you produce a timestamped record — not a reconstructed email chain.

Product mapping

Your workflow, mapped to TrustVendor.

Your workflow	TrustVendor surface
Weekly signal triage	Signals & Lifecycle
Vendor portfolio review	TPRM Workspace — portfolio view
Ad-hoc vendor investigation	Public Vendor Graph search
Evidence verification for auditors	Evidence Viewer
Cross-portfolio risk query	Agents & Q&A
GRC platform data feed	Vendor Pulse API

In the field

“Annual questionnaires are theatre. Continuous evidence is what a board wants to see. Three findings in 90 days proved the point.”

— David Okafor, Meridian Payroll

Replaced an annual point-in-time questionnaire process with continuous monitoring across 60 critical vendors.

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Common questions.

How is this different from Bitsight or SecurityScorecard?

Bitsight and SecurityScorecard measure external hygiene using internet telemetry — open ports, botnet data, SSL configurations. That tells you how a vendor looks from the outside. TrustVendor tells you what a vendor has published in their own disclosures, whether those claims are current and verified, and exactly what changed since the last snapshot. The two are complementary: you can retain Bitsight for external hygiene and add TrustVendor for disclosure and document monitoring.

Does TrustVendor require vendors to cooperate or fill out anything?

No. TrustVendor monitors publicly accessible sources — trust centres, subprocessor pages, status pages, Certificate Transparency logs, and public filings. Your vendors do not need to install anything, respond to a questionnaire, or grant TrustVendor any access. The system works entirely from public evidence.

How quickly do signals fire after a source changes?

For high-priority sources such as trust centres and subprocessor pages for vendors in your monitored portfolio, changes are detected and signals issued within hours of the source update. Critical signals are delivered to your configured channel within 15 minutes of detection. The SLA clock runs from the source event timestamp, not from when our crawler fetched it — we do not hide pipeline latency.

How does residual risk differ from a posture score?

A posture score is global — it measures what controls a vendor claims to have, and it is the same number for every customer of that vendor. Residual risk is relationship-scoped: it factors in what data classes you share with that vendor, your integration depth, and whether the vendor's claimed controls actually cover your exposure. Two organizations using the same vendor can have very different residual risk scores depending on what data they share.

Can we use this alongside our existing GRC platform?

Yes, that is the most common deployment pattern. TrustVendor is the evidence data layer — continuous monitoring, span-cited findings, and vendor intelligence. Your GRC platform (Vanta, Drata, OneTrust, ServiceNow) remains the workflow, policy management, and audit layer. TrustVendor pushes vendor scores and signals into your GRC tool via native integrations or the Vendor Pulse API.

Your vendors are changing right now. Are you watching?

Book a 30-minute session. We will run TrustVendor live on vendors from your register and show you what changed in the last 30 days.

Signals firing within hours of a source change
Every finding traced to a hash-verified snapshot
No questionnaires sent. No vendor cooperation required.