Introduction
Third-party risk programmes often stop at onboarding. The vendor is scored, the questionnaire is filed, and the relationship continues as if nothing will change.
In practice, vendors ship features, rotate staff, and connect new data paths. Your exposure follows those changes whether your register notices or not.
Treat critical vendors as systems
PCS helps organisations keep that picture current, so vendor risk is managed with the same seriousness as internal platforms.
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Known access and data
Critical vendors need the same inventory of access and data as any internal system.
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Owners on both sides
Name who can speak for the vendor relationship inside your organisation, and who they call.
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A path to revoke
If you cannot unwind access when something goes wrong, the spreadsheet was never an operating model.
