Vendor Management · Part of Vulnerability Management

Trust is not evidence.

Your vendors are the one part of your attack surface still assessed by questionnaire. Vendor Management invites the companies you rely on to run The Ultimate Adversary™ against their own estate, and reports what it actually found back to you: a validated risk score, the assets in scope, and the date it was proven. Their findings stay theirs. Yours stay yours.

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The adversary runs inside each vendor estate, and dies at the boundary. What crosses is the score and its severity.

The problem

Attackers don't read paper.
Vendor risk still does.

You already test your own surface continuously, with exploits that prove what they find. Your vendors are the one part of your attack surface still assessed by questionnaire. And when a vendor falls, it is your data that moves.

The vendor grades their own homework

Questionnaires and self-assessments measure what a vendor is willing to claim, not what an attacker can reach. Nothing in the packet has been tested against a live adversary.

The evidence expires on arrival

A report or a summary letter describes a system as it stood months ago, on a scope you did not set, from a test you are not allowed to see or reproduce.

There is no shared scale

Every vendor answers in a different format. You end up turning prose into a color in a spreadsheet, then defending that color to your risk committee.

How it works

Invite the vendor.
Get back proof, not paperwork.

Vendors is an area inside Vulnerability Management. You add a company you rely on, name the internal owner who carries that risk, and name the technical owner on the vendor side. The whole program reads in one table: status, validated risk score and severity, assets covered, and who owns it on both sides.

Once, to bring the vendor in

Invite

You add the vendor and their technical owner. They get SpartanX in their own workspace, under their own agreement.

Scope

The vendor sets scope, and it must match the technology and services they deliver to you. Scope that does not cover what they run on your behalf does not count.

Continuous, for as long as the vendor is in your program

Test

Continuous campaigns across web, mobile, API, network, cloud, identity and AI, each path chained and proven with working evidence.

Report

You receive the risk score and severity, the assets in scope and the risk on each, and the engagement status and dates. Nothing else crosses.

Re-validate

You set the evaluation period. Scope that is not re-tested inside your window is flagged for re-validation.

Every evaluation period, back to Test

One scale

The same score you already use for yourself.

The risk score is not a vendor metric invented for this program. It is the proprietary SpartanX score the platform produces for your own estate, on the same 0 to 100 scale, from the same validated testing. For the first time, third-party and first-party risk are directly comparable: one system, one definition of severe, one number your risk committee reads without a translation layer.

One scale for your estate and theirs. The same definition of severe, and the same evidence standard behind every number.

The mutual shield

Both sides stay shielded.
That is why vendors say yes.

Asking a vendor to hand over a list of their live vulnerabilities is asking them to write their own worst document. Most refuse, and the ones who agree send you something sanitized. SpartanX removes the objection. Data never crosses company boundaries. Each company keeps its assets, findings and evidence inside its own isolated tenant. What moves between them is a report, from the vendor to you.

What you receive

The validated risk score, on the SpartanX 0 to 100 scale
Severity, and how it has moved across the last reports
The assets the vendor placed in scope, and the risk on each
Engagement status, coverage and dates

What never crosses

The vulnerability list
Individual findings and their evidence
Attack paths, payloads and reproduction detail
Anything from your own workspace, in the other direction

The shield is stated in the product, on both sides of the relationship.

Why vendors accept

Your vendor is not handed a portal to fill in.
They get SpartanX.

They point the platform at a collection of their own assets and report that collection's status to you, and to any other client who asks, from the same evidence. A vendor that starts narrow to satisfy one client ends up with an autonomous adversary running against their whole estate, which is a far easier conversation than asking them to publish their vulnerabilities to a customer.

Scoped and approved by the vendor
Audit-logged, every action traceable
Role-based access and single sign-on
Under their control, exactly as it is under yours

What changes

From a folder of claims
to a program of evidence.

Your third-party program today	With Vendor Management
Self-assessment questionnaires and attestations	Validated testing of the vendor's live estate
Annual, or at renewal	Continuous, with an evaluation period you set
Scope written for the vendor's convenience	Scope tied to the technology they run for you
A different format and vocabulary from every vendor	One score, one severity scale, one program view
Evidence you cannot inspect, on a date you cannot cite	Risk proven by attack, reported on a date you can cite

Think like an attacker. Move faster than one.

Bring every vendor onto the same scale you hold yourself to. Risk proven by attack, on a date you can cite.