Services
Third-Party Risk Management
Your organisation does not operate in isolation. Every vendor, partner, and service provider that handles personal data on your behalf introduces risk. We help you build practical, scalable processes for managing that risk throughout the relationship lifecycle.
What we do
Vendor due diligence frameworks
We design assessment frameworks that are proportionate to your risk profile. Not every vendor needs the same level of scrutiny, and we help you focus your effort where it matters most.
Third-party assessments
We conduct privacy and security assessments of your vendors and processors, evaluating their technical controls, organisational measures, and contractual commitments.
Contract review
We review data processing agreements, standard contractual clauses, and other contractual arrangements to ensure they meet regulatory requirements and protect your interests.
Ongoing monitoring
Due diligence is not a one-time event. We help you build processes for ongoing monitoring and periodic reassessment of your critical vendors.
Subprocessor management
Managing the chain of processors and subprocessors is a regulatory requirement that many organisations struggle with. We help you build visibility and control.
Why this matters
Regulators increasingly hold organisations accountable for their vendors' data handling practices. A data breach or compliance failure by a third party is, in regulatory terms, often your responsibility.
Beyond regulatory risk, poor vendor management erodes the trust of customers and partners. Demonstrating that you take third-party risk seriously is a competitive advantage in an environment where privacy expectations continue to rise.
We support third-party privacy diligence in environments shaped by GDPR, POPIA, HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27701, SOC 2, and related contractual and regulatory expectations.
Common triggers for this service
- New regulatory requirements around vendor oversight
- Client or partner requests for vendor risk documentation
- An incident involving a vendor or processor
- Rapid growth in the number of vendors handling data
- Preparation for ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification
Need help with third-party risk?
Talk to us about your vendor landscape and we will help you build a practical approach to managing third-party privacy risk.