CM App: 4th Party Risk Menu and Pages

The 4th Party Risk section of the menu in the Continuous Monitoring application lets you to manage your fourth parties in your portfolio. A fourth party is a service provider used by one of your third parties.

Use this section to: 

  • View the connections between an organization, its business partners, and their fourth parties.
  • Identify where cyber risk is concentrated among fourth parties.
  • Evaluate whether a relationship is consistent with your business and information security strategy.

For definitions of certainty level and identification method, see Company Relationships.

Pages

4th Party Overview

Shows a summary of your fourth party ecosystem, including the service providers most commonly used by your third parties and the risks they might introduce. Also ranks fourth party products by importance, based on the number and importance of the third party domains each product supports.

Use it to search for a specific product, filter by business function, product type, or importance, and download the data as a CSV file.
 

Products [Used by Third Parties]

Lists the products provided by service providers across your fourth party ecosystem.

Use it to find which products your third parties use.
 

Service Providers 
[Used by Third Parties]

Lists service providers, and shows which companies depend on a particular service provider or product. Use this page to choose which fourth party companies to add to your subscription.

Use it to see which companies depend on a specific service provider or product, and choose fourth party companies to add to your subscription.
 

Publish Date or Recent Edits
  • October 2, 2024: Moved certainty level and idenfication method (formerly "relationship type") to Company Relationships; Separated Insurance.
  • May 21, 2024: Presented by application.
  • April 21, 2023: Lowercase “s” in “Bitsight.”
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  • It would be helpful if you would define “Confirmed” and “Suspected” within the Certainty Level. 

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  • We just updated Company Relationships to better describe Certainty Level.

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