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Third Party Risk Management as a Service

Third Party Risk ManagementNo Organisation
is an Island.

Incidents rarely affect just one organisation. They ripple through entire ecosystems, causing widespread disruption across multiple sectors. Endida's Third Party Risk Management as a Service (TPRMaaS) combines independent, continuous monitoring of every supplier with verified control evidence and hands-on managed-service expertise, giving you a single, defensible view of supply chain risk.

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30%
Of All Data Breaches Involve a Third Party — Verizon DBIR 2025
4×
Increase in Major Supply Chain Compromises Over Five Years — IBM X-Force
100+
Downstream Organisations Affected by a Single Supplier Compromise
$4.9M
Average Cost of a Supply Chain Breach — IBM 2025
Our Approach

Two Lenses on Every Supplier.
One Verdict.

Attestation tells you what a supplier says about its controls. Independent external monitoring tells you what its posture actually looks like. Endida runs both, continuously, and treats any gap between them as a risk signal in its own right.

Lens 01 — Outside-In
Non-Intrusive Continuous Monitoring
Every supplier is assessed from the outside, passively and continuously, with no questionnaire, no agent and nothing touching their infrastructure. Coverage is complete from day one, including the suppliers who never return a questionnaire, and it refreshes as their external posture changes rather than once a year. This observed view is also what drives the financial exposure quantification.
Lens 02 — Inside-Out
Verified Control Evidence
The active supplier network adds the depth external signals cannot reach: documented controls, policies, certifications and context, completed once by each supplier and shared with every client that asks. This is where you confirm what a supplier genuinely operates, beyond what can be inferred from outside the perimeter.
Lens 03 — Triangulate
Where the Two Disagree
The most valuable finding is the divergence. When a supplier attests strong controls but its observed external posture is weak, that gap matters more than either view on its own. Reconciling attested against observed is what separates a defensible third-party programme from a questionnaire exercise or a raw ratings feed.
Risk Coverage

Beyond Cyber.
A Modern TPRM Programme.

Modern third-party risk extends well beyond information security. Endida's TPRMaaS covers the full spectrum of domains that regulators and boards increasingly expect organisations to manage.

01
Cyber & Information Security
Assess and continuously monitor suppliers' security controls, vulnerability exposure and incident history. Identify misconfigurations, weak policies and gaps that could become stepping stones into your environment.
02
Compliance & Regulatory Risk
Ensure your supply chain meets applicable regulatory requirements — DORA, FCA, GDPR, ISO 27001 and sector-specific obligations. Automate compliance tracking across your entire vendor ecosystem.
03
Data Privacy
Understand how your third parties handle, store and process personal data. Identify processors and sub-processors, assess data transfer risks, and ensure GDPR and regional privacy requirements are met throughout your supply chain.
04
Operational Resilience
Map concentration risks across your supply chain — identifying single points of failure, critical dependencies and nth-party exposures. Understand how disruptions to one supplier could cascade through your entire ecosystem.
05
ESG & Ethical Risk
Assess environmental, social and governance factors across your vendor relationships. Emerging regulatory requirements and investor expectations increasingly demand visibility into ESG risk throughout the supply chain.
06
Financial & Credit Risk
Monitor the financial stability of critical third parties to anticipate disruptions before they occur. Identify suppliers whose financial distress could create operational or reputational risk for your organisation.
The Platform

Your Entire Supply Chain.
One Active Network.

The platform transforms third-party risk management by onboarding and connecting your entire supply chain into an active, interconnected network — providing real-time risk insights and complete visibility from primary suppliers to nth-tier vendors.

Visualise
Supply Chain Visualisation
Gain a complete, real-time visual representation of your entire supply chain — from primary suppliers to nth-tier vendors. This dynamic network model allows you to quickly identify and understand concentration risks and interdependencies. By having a clear, holistic view, you can proactively manage potential points of weakness and make informed decisions to ensure a more resilient supply chain.
Assess
Supplier Due Diligence
Leverage immediate access to thousands of engaged suppliers with up-to-date security information. Suppliers complete a single profile which they share with all their clients — meaning data is always under simultaneous scrutiny from multiple buyers, maintaining quality, accuracy and timeliness. Quickly connect to 5,000+ organisations already on the platform. Eliminate spreadsheets and email questionnaire chains entirely.
Monitor
Continuous Risk Monitoring
Actively monitor the supply chain for security updates and emerging threats. Receive real-time notifications when supplier compliance scores change, remediations occur, or new vulnerabilities emerge. Track assessments in real time across your entire supplier database. When a new vulnerability emerges, the platform automatically queries all your suppliers on whether they've been affected — enabling immediate remediation before it reaches you.
Respond
Third-Party Breach Management
When a large-scale cyberattack occurs, instantly identify which suppliers are affected. Automatically access data on supplier impact and track their remediation progress. Explore potential exposure across 4th, 5th and nth parties using the visualisation module to understand blast radius. Monitor and report on incidents in real time with automated reporting for stakeholders — communicate initial impact, demonstrate ongoing management and remediate issues directly with suppliers' security teams.
Score
Real-Time Risk Scoring
Understand which of your suppliers represent the highest risk with real-time risk scoring. Use the chat and discussion feature to remediate issues directly with supplier security teams, without the email back-and-forth. Delegate risk ownership, set impact and likelihood assessments, and make informed decisions — all within a single dashboard. Tag high-risk suppliers and receive automated notifications of any changes.
Quantify
Financial Exposure Quantification
Translate third-party risk into a number the board understands. Endida's managed service applies the Open FAIR methodology to quantify the probable financial loss from a supplier breach or a critical-vendor outage, expressed in pounds across data breach and business interruption scenarios. Concentration risk stops being a heat-map colour and becomes a defensible exposure figure: what your most depended-upon suppliers could cost you, and where to spend first to bring that figure down. Board-ready and audit-ready output that strengthens DORA concentration-risk reporting and cyber-insurance submissions.
Report
Compliance Reporting
Generate comprehensive reports on compliance, activity and performance — exportable in CSV or PDF format. Stay ahead of evolving cybersecurity threats and industry regulations with a supplier assessment framework that is continuously updated. Use standardised, fully customisable questionnaires and policy templates aligned to DORA, ISO 27001, FCA and other applicable frameworks. Create audit-ready documentation for regulators and board-level reporting with confidence.
Service Models

Three Delivery Models.
One Programme.

Endida's TPRMaaS adapts to your organisation's maturity, resources and risk appetite. Choose the model that fits — or combine them as your programme evolves.

Model 01 — Fully Managed
Complete Outsourcing
Endida manages your entire third-party risk programme. From supplier onboarding and assessment to ongoing monitoring, remediation tracking and regulatory reporting — we handle it all. Your team retains visibility and oversight while we deliver the operational heavy lifting. Ideal for organisations without in-house TPRM capacity or those facing rapid growth in third-party relationships.
Model 02 — Co-Managed
Collaborative Augmentation
A collaborative approach that augments your existing team with Endida's resources and expertise. We work alongside your security and compliance professionals to extend capacity, fill specialist gaps and ensure programme consistency. Ideal for organisations with established TPRM functions that need additional bandwidth, specialist knowledge or technology support.
Model 03 — Platform Advisory
Technology-Enabled Self-Service
Endida provides expert guidance and strategic oversight while your team operates the platform directly. We configure the platform, establish assessment frameworks, set risk appetite policies and provide ongoing advisory support. Ideal for organisations with capable in-house teams who need a best-in-class platform and access to expert counsel when complex issues arise.
Use Cases

Built for
Regulated Industries.

Third-party risk is particularly acute in regulated sectors where supply chain failures can trigger regulatory action, reputational damage and financial penalties.

Financial Services
DORA & FCA Compliance
Meet DORA's stringent third-party ICT risk requirements and FCA operational resilience obligations. Maintain a register of all third-party dependencies, assess concentration risk and demonstrate continuous monitoring to regulators with audit-ready reporting.
iGaming & Gambling
Vendor & Platform Risk
Assess and monitor the security posture of payment processors, platform providers, affiliate networks and technology vendors. Demonstrate compliance to UKGC, MGA and other licensing authorities with clear evidence of third-party risk oversight.
Crypto & Fintech
Supply Chain Security
Identify risks in your technology supply chain — from cloud infrastructure providers and custodians to API and SDK vendors. Assess fourth and fifth-party dependencies that could introduce vulnerabilities or regulatory exposure through their own supply chains.
Government & CNI
Critical Infrastructure
Protect critical national infrastructure from supply chain attack vectors. Identify concentration risks, assess supplier security controls against relevant government frameworks, and maintain continuous oversight across complex, interconnected vendor ecosystems.
Enterprise
Board-Level Reporting
Give boards and risk committees clear, data-driven visibility into supply chain risk posture. Generate executive summaries, trend reporting and risk heat maps that translate technical supplier assessments into business-relevant insight.
CISOs
Emerging Threat Response
When the next MOVEit, Log4j or CrowdStrike-scale incident occurs, immediately understand your exposure. Know within hours which suppliers are affected, what their remediation status is, and how the risk cascades through your nth-party ecosystem.
What Clients Say

Say Goodbye
to Spreadsheets.

"

The supplier risk map is great for supply chain visualisation, as well as the emerging threat section, especially with the coverage of the MS/CrowdStrike global issues. The team were so quick in getting this deployed on the same day and allowed us to start tracking supplier responses very quickly.

Security Team Lead · Enterprise Client
"

The interface and dashboard exceeded initial expectations — it was great to have the ability to have a snapshot of all suppliers. The ability to pull a quick report is very useful, and gives me a lot of confidence when people ask how we're managing supply chains.

Head of Information Security
"

One of the main advantages is that suppliers complete a single profile which they can then share with their clients on request. Suppliers benefit as they only have to do it once. Clients benefit too as other companies may have previously invited the same supplier — meaning it's already available immediately.

CISO · Financial Services Organisation
FAQ

Third Party Risk Management
Questions, Answered.

Common questions about TPRMaaS, DORA third party obligations, and how Endida assesses supplier risk from both the outside in and the inside out.

What is third party risk management as a service (TPRMaaS)?
TPRMaaS is an outsourced or co-managed third party risk programme. Endida runs supplier onboarding, due diligence, continuous monitoring, concentration-risk analysis and regulatory reporting on your behalf, so you get a defensible view of supply chain risk without building an internal TPRM function.
What is the difference between outside-in and inside-out supplier assessment?
Outside-in is independent, non-intrusive monitoring of a supplier's external security posture, with no questionnaire or consent needed, covering every supplier continuously. Inside-out is attested control evidence the supplier provides directly. Endida runs both and treats any gap between what a supplier claims and what is observed as a risk signal in its own right.
Does DORA require third party risk management?
Yes. DORA places explicit obligations on financial entities to manage ICT third party risk, maintain a register of information on all ICT arrangements, assess concentration risk and monitor providers continuously. Endida's TPRMaaS produces the evidence and reporting those requirements call for.
How does Endida quantify the financial exposure of a supplier breach?
Using the Open FAIR methodology, Endida converts a supplier's risk into a probable financial loss expressed in pounds, across data breach and business interruption scenarios. This turns concentration risk into a board-ready and insurer-ready exposure figure rather than a heat-map colour.
What is fourth party and nth party risk?
Fourth and nth party risk is the exposure introduced by your suppliers' own suppliers. A vendor you trust may depend on a cloud provider, an API or a sub-processor that carries its own risk. Endida maps these dependencies so you understand how a disruption several tiers down could cascade to you.
Which frameworks and regulations does Endida's TPRM cover?
Coverage includes DORA, NIS2, FCA and PRA operational resilience, ISO 27001, GDPR and sector-specific licence conditions such as UKGC and MGA for iGaming. Reporting is structured to be audit-ready for regulators and board risk committees.
How quickly can a TPRM programme be deployed?
Outside-in monitoring can cover your supplier list from day one with no supplier involvement. The attestation network and managed-service layer typically onboard within a week, so you move from spreadsheets to continuous oversight quickly rather than over months.
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