Vendor Risk: Vendor Discovery

Instantly surface vendor relationships with turn-key visibility.

The Vendor Discovery page in the Continuous Monitoring application [menu-portfolio-risk.png Portfolio Risk ➔ Vendor Discovery] automatically surfaces your vendors so that you can quickly and easily subscribe to them in the Continuous Monitoring application. See how vendor connections are discovered.

Vendor Discovery Table

Use the Vendor Discovery table to explore automatically-surfaced companies from your supply chain.

When viewing the table, you can use the toggle to show or hide companies you already subscribe to. You can sort the table by company and relevance, or you can search the table for specific company names.

You can download the list of companies in the Vendor Discovery table as a .csv file. This file will reflect any filters you’ve applied to the table.

Field Description
Company The company’s name, logo, and domain.
Industry The company’s industry.
Certainty Level How certain we are that a company is your vendor or fourth party. Certainty is evaluated based on technical and non-technical evaluations.
Relevance

The degree to which a company is relevant to your continuous monitoring program.

  • High: Companies with a confirmed connection and a high concentration across your assets. Monitored by a significant amount of companies like yours.
  • Medium: Companies identified on a subset of your assets. Monitored by a subset of companies like yours.
  • Low: Companies identified based on non-technical observations.

Selecting a company from the table opens a side panel that provides context to the connection. This context indicates why a company was identified as a vendor. It includes the company’s industry, number of network assets, and number of companies that monitor it. It also provides details about the company’s relevance and certainty, including a list of identified products that support these metrics.

You can use the side panel to subscribe to or decline a vendor. Declining a vendor will remove it from the Vendor Discovery table. To view a list of previously declined vendors, select the dropdown at the top of the table, then select View declined vendors. You can subscribe to declined vendors from this page if you change your mind.

  • January 10, 2024: You can now decline discovered vendors and download the list of companies in the Vendor Discovery table.
  • December 1, 2023: Published.
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