Continuously monitor each third party's external attack surface for security exposures, vulnerabilities and material changes in risk, without waiting for the vendor to self-report.
A vendor's internet-facing assets, services and vulnerabilities change constantly. An annual questionnaire captures none of that change.
A score from one provider rarely shows which asset, finding or observation produced it, so analysts cannot verify it or challenge it.
Stale domains and unrelated IPs inflate findings and send analysts chasing assets the vendor does not own.
External findings that are not tied to an owner and an issue sit in a report until the next review.
SAFE operates its own outside-in assessment engine. Starting from a vendor's domain, it discovers and attributes the vendor's internet-facing footprint, assesses it on a regular cycle, and turns material findings into issues your team can track to closure.
Starting from a third party's domain, SAFE discovers its internet-facing domains, subdomains, IPs and other digital assets.
Attributed assets are assessed across seven categories, including email security, application security, network exposure and breach and credential exposure.
Findings roll up into a continuously refreshed Exposure Score that highlights material changes in each vendor's risk.
SAFE ranks exposures against each vendor's criticality, so validated, relevant findings rise above low-value alerts.
SAFE runs its own outside-in assessment engine, so you see the signals and evidence behind third-party exposure, not only a rating.
Attack-surface posture, vulnerabilities, leaked credentials and third- and fourth-party breaches come together in one view.
Explainable attribution shows why every domain, subdomain and IP belongs to a vendor, and stale assets are removed continuously.
Every point of exposure traces to a specific asset and finding that can be investigated, assigned and driven to closure.
Instacart's TPRM team managed hundreds of vendors through manual processes that slowed assessments and limited visibility. They needed a more automated, risk-based approach to scale the program.
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