Continuous third-party governance over your vendors' changes and your own.

Onboard vendors fast, re-attest them on a real cadence, and surface concentration risk before your examiner does.

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The shape of the problem · 01

What this actually feels like.

01The vendor inventory lives in a spreadsheet that nobody trusts and everybody references.
02In our experience, annual reviews arrive 14 months apart and all stack up in Q4.
03A SOC 2 report expires, and nobody notices until procurement re-checks.
04Concentration risk is only visible if you draw the diagram by hand.

How Zovos handles it · 02

Every step writes back to the same controls, policies, and issues your team already owns. There is no second source of truth.

01
Onboard
Vendor questionnaires (default, custom, or imported SIG and CAIQ workbooks) are issued and tracked from inside Zovos. Vendors upload responses through a portal instead of emailing PDFs.
02
Tier
Zovos suggests each vendor’s tier from its criticality, data sensitivity, system access, and annual spend, and you can override it. The tier drives the review cadence and the approval path.
03
Watch
SOC 2 and ISO expirations, security incidents, and regulator actions are tracked per vendor. An expiring report or artifact alerts 30 days before it lapses, and again once it has expired.
04
Map
Each vendor is mapped to the controls and processes it touches, and to the regulator paragraphs that govern those processes.
05
Surface
Concentration risk, fourth-party dependencies, and overdue reviews surface on one dashboard. The examiner sees what you see.

What changes · 03

Onboarding cycle

Questionnaires are issued and tracked in Zovos and answered through a vendor portal.

Overdue reviews

The risk tier drives the review cadence instead of the calendar.

Expiration misses

Expiring SOC reports and other vendor artifacts alert 30 days out and again on expiry.

Concentration view

Concentration and fourth-party dependencies show on one dashboard.

Related scenarios · 04

Watch the federal banking regulators and your charter state. Get a proposed mapping for every paragraph that moves, before Monday.

Continuous evidence with paragraph-level citations, owner attestations, and an exportable packet for every framework you have to answer to.

Bring a control library, a policy, and one regulator paragraph that gives you trouble. We target two-week onboarding.