Vendor risk management your buyer trusts — and your team can actually run

Your buyer's Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) team wants to know how you manage your suppliers, because your suppliers are their fourth parties. ISO-STANDARD.app is the vendor risk workspace that runs questionnaires, tracks DPAs and reviews, and evidences the whole thing — without a spreadsheet named 'Vendors_v14_FINAL.xlsx'.

Vendor risk is the deal-blocking question you'll be asked

Modern buyers know your supply chain is their supply chain. Under DORA, NIS2, the FCA's outsourcing rules, ISO 27001 A.5.19–A.5.23 and every serious SOC 2 review, they will ask how you assess, tier, contract and monitor your third parties.

Doing this in a spreadsheet is where teams get caught. Vendor changes go untracked, DPAs go unread, and the annual review becomes a fire drill. Doing it in a workspace turns TPRM into a defensible, buyer-friendly operational capability.

What's in the box

Vendor register with tiering

Classify by data sensitivity, criticality and jurisdiction — tier drives depth of review.

Questionnaires that don't waste time

Standard SIG-lite / CAIQ-lite baseline; vendor-facing portal to complete once and reuse.

DPA & contract library

Store DPAs, SCCs, MSAs, security schedules with expiry and review dates.

Transfer risk assessments

Post-Schrems II TIAs captured as first-class artifacts, not an email thread.

Review cadence per tier

High-tier vendors reviewed quarterly, low-tier annually. Cadence enforced by the platform.

Change alerts to customers

Subprocessor change → automatic notification to customers who subscribed for updates.

Why buyer TPRM teams love this

Tiered

Risk-based depth of review

TIA

Transfer risk assessments tracked

Live

Subprocessor list published to your Trust Center

Auto

Customer notifications on change

How buyers verify you — in minutes, not weeks

Buyers care as much about your suppliers as they care about you. Give them a way to verify — without a bespoke report.

Step 1
Publish your subprocessor list
Live on your Trust Center; buyers can subscribe to change notifications.
Step 2
Answer TPRM questions from the vendor register
Every question — 'how do you tier suppliers?', 'do you assess data transfers?' — answered from live workspace state.
Step 3
Share the vendor security pack
For high-scrutiny buyers, share the review pack for critical vendors under NDA — including the questionnaire, DPA status and last review date.
Step 4
Prove ongoing monitoring
Vendor risk isn't a one-off — the cadence log shows you review high-tier vendors on schedule.

The artifacts buyers actually ask for

Every artifact below is generated inside the workspace, versioned, timestamped and shareable via a signed link — no last-minute PDF assembly, no "wait, which version did I send them?"

Vendor register with tiering and criticality

Vendor questionnaire responses (SIG-lite / CAIQ-lite)

Signed DPAs with expiry and review dates

Transfer Risk Assessments (TIAs) post-Schrems II

Subprocessor register published on Trust Center

Vendor review log per tier with owner

Contract library with renewal calendar

Vendor incident and SLA-breach log

Who it's for

SaaS with a growing subprocessor list

Pain: You sign a new subprocessor, forget to update the DPA, and a customer notices before you do.

With ISO-STANDARD.app: Subprocessor changes go through a review workflow with automatic customer notification.

Ops lead in a regulated business

Pain: Every audit asks for the vendor review evidence; you spend a week reassembling it.

With ISO-STANDARD.app: Pre-built review pack per vendor tier, ready to hand to the auditor.

Consultancy running multiple client vendor programmes

Pain: Every client wants their own vendor list, and none of them look the same.

With ISO-STANDARD.app: A workspace per client, a consistent tiering model and reusable questionnaires.

Deal-close moment

"Our largest customer's TPRM team said they'd never had a supplier answer their subprocessor questions in the same call. That deal renewed on the spot."

— Head of Compliance, Series C SaaS

Answers buyers, procurement and auditors want

Does it replace a dedicated TPRM tool?+

For SMEs and consultancies, yes. The vendor register, questionnaires, DPAs, TIAs and review cadence are all here — without an enterprise TPRM contract.

Can vendors complete their own questionnaires?+

Yes — a vendor-facing portal lets them answer once; you review, and their answers are re-usable across your future reviews.

Does it publish subprocessors publicly?+

Yes — via your Trust Center, with change notifications for customers who subscribe.

Does it help me sell?+

Directly. Enterprise buyers ask 'how do you manage your suppliers?' as a matter of course — the answer is one page, backed by live evidence.

How does it integrate with ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / GDPR?+

Vendor artifacts are linked to the control (A.5.19–A.5.23 for ISO 27001, CC9 for SOC 2, Art. 28 for GDPR). One workspace covers all three.

Read the third-party risk assessment guide. Pair with the Trust Center and GDPR workspace.

Make vendor risk a competitive advantage

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