SAFE Recognized in Gartner’s 2025 TPRM Market Guide: Leading the Shift to Autonomous Third-Party Risk Management

Our 25 AI agents take on the manual, time-consuming tasks that have weighed down traditional TPRM programs.

By Resha Chheda

SAFE Security has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Technology Solutions, and it couldn’t have come at a more important time for security leaders. As third-party ecosystems grow more complex, CISOs and risk teams are looking for new ways to manage vendor risk that go beyond spreadsheets and periodic reviews.

According to Gartner, more than 60% of cyber incidents now involve a third party, making third-party risk one of the biggest blind spots in enterprise security. The Gartner report also highlights that integration, scalability, and automation are becoming key differentiators in a fragmented TPRM market.

SAFE’s recognition is a signal that the industry is ready for a new approach—one that’s proactive, automated, and scalable.

The SAFE Difference: An Autonomous, AI-Powered Approach to TPRM

At SAFE, we’ve built an autonomous TPRM platform powered by Agentic AI—a framework of more than 25 AI Agents designed to take on the manual, time-consuming tasks that have weighed down traditional TPRM programs.

Instead of relying on static questionnaires and chasing vendors for updates, SAFE automates the entire process, delivering continuous, real-time visibility into vendor risks across cyber, compliance, financial, and ESG domains.

Here’s how SAFE transforms third-party risk management:

1. Discover What You Don’t Know
SAFE automatically uncovers shadow vendors and fourth-party relationships across your enterprise, shining a light on hidden risks that are often overlooked by traditional tools.

Fourth-party discovery

2. Automate Data Collection and Analysis
SAFE’s AI Agents automatically gather, analyze, and map risk data from contracts, questionnaires, public disclosures, and external risk signals—eliminating the need for manual data entry and document reviews.

Contract analysis

3. Monitor Vendors Continuously
Rather than relying on annual assessments, SAFE delivers continuous monitoring of your vendor ecosystem in real time, scanning for breaches, compliance issues, financial changes, and other risk signals.

Real-time monitoring dashboard

4. Quantify Third Party Risk in Business Terms
SAFE translates technical cyber risk into financial impact aligned with FAIR standards, enabling CISOs to communicate risk to executives in language the business understands.

Third-party financial quantification of risk

5. Automate Decisions and Orchestration
SAFE doesn’t just report risks—it automates next steps. The platform orchestrates decisions and actions across security, procurement, compliance, and legal teams, reducing delays and manual coordination.

What This Means for CISOs

For CISOs, SAFE’s autonomous TPRM platform delivers outcomes that go beyond compliance:

• Faster vendor onboarding by automating assessments and reviews
  
• Broader risk coverage without increasing headcount
  
• Faster detection and remediation of emerging third-party risks
  
• Clear, actionable insights that support executive and board-level reporting
  
• Stronger collaboration across risk, procurement, compliance, and security teams
  

The Gartner report notes growing interest in AI and automation to reduce the complexity and manual effort involved in TPRM. SAFE’s Agentic AI delivers exactly that: a platform that keeps up with the scale and speed of today’s third-party risk landscape.

Experience Autonomous TPRM in Action

Managing third-party risk doesn’t have to be manual or reactive. SAFE’s autonomous, AI-powered platform gives CISOs the tools to stay ahead of vendor risks, improve collaboration, and reduce the burden on overstretched teams.

Want to see how it works? Take a test drive at www.safe.security/tprm and explore the future of third-party risk management.

SAFE is helping organizations move from fragmented, manual TPRM workflows to a unified, continuous, autonomous approach—because in today’s world, vendor risk is business risk.

See SAFE TPRM in action. Watch the video or take a hands-on test drive.  

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