Ensure robust security, risk management, and compliance across all third-party and supplier relationships with our comprehensive governance policy.
This policy governs the security, risk, and compliance requirements for all third-party and supplier relationships, detailing due diligence, contractual safeguards, ongoing monitoring, and offboarding procedures for third parties handling organizational data or services.
Mandates rigorous security controls, risk tiering, and audits for all third-party providers throughout their service lifecycle.
Ensures supplier contracts include breach notification, data handling, right-to-audit, and enforceable compliance clauses.
Requires regular performance reviews, certification audits, and incident escalation to maintain third-party accountability.
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Scope and Rules of Engagement
Supplier Due Diligence Requirements
Third-Party Risk Classification & Tiering Model
Contractual Security Clauses
Continuous Performance and Compliance Reviews
Termination and Offboarding Protocols
This product is aligned with the following compliance frameworks, with detailed clause and control mappings.
Establishes the overarching commitment to secure all organizational operations, including reliance on third-party suppliers and external service providers.
Guides the identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with third-party relationships, including inherited or systemic risks from supplier ecosystems.
Applies to all suppliers that handle personal data, requiring appropriate contractual terms, transfer safeguards, and privacy-by-design principles.
Controls how third-party personnel gain access to organizational systems, enforcing role-based permissions, session controls, and revocation procedures.
Requires that supplier access to systems be monitored, logged, and reviewed, particularly in environments where privileged or data-centric activities occur.
Defines escalation procedures and breach reporting requirements for supplier-originated security events or joint investigations involving third-party systems.
Effective security governance requires more than just words; it demands clarity, accountability, and a structure that scales with your organization. Generic templates often fail, creating ambiguity with long paragraphs and undefined roles. This policy is engineered to be the operational backbone of your security program. We assign responsibilities to the specific roles found in a modern enterprise, including the CISO, IT Security, and relevant committees, ensuring clear accountability. Every requirement is a uniquely numbered clause (e.g., 5.1.1, 5.1.2). This atomic structure makes the policy easy to implement, audit against specific controls, and safely customize without affecting document integrity, transforming it from a static document into a dynamic, actionable framework.
Features a formal process for supplier security exceptions, requiring rationale, risk analysis, and time-bound controls.
Integrates security into procurement, onboarding, service monitoring, and offboarding for every supplier relationship.
This policy was authored by a security leader with 25+ years of experience deploying and auditing ISMS frameworks for global enterprises. It's designed not just to be a document, but a defensible framework that stands up to auditor scrutiny.