What Your TPRM Vendor Won’t Tell You Until After You Sign

Most TPRM evaluations come down to demos, pricing, and feature checklists.

The problem is that every demo looks nearly identical with dashboards, risk scores, questionnaire workflows. The differences that actually matter only become visible after you’ve signed:

• when a regulatory examiner asks you to defend a risk rating
• when a vendor has an incident you didn’t see coming
• or when a critical vendor goes dark and you’re waiting with no backup and no timeline.

This session is built for security and risk professionals who are evaluating TPRM solutions, maturing an existing program, or questioning whether their current tool is actually delivering what they need.

We’ll walk through five outcomes every TPRM program needs to produce, and the questions that reveal whether a vendor can deliver them. Just the framework practitioners wish they’d had before they signed.

You’ll leave with:

• a clear evaluation framework built around program outcomes, not feature lists
• the questions that expose data quality and defensibility gaps before they become audit findings
• an honest look at what continuous monitoring actually requires versus what most tools deliver
• a realistic conversation about the scenario every program needs; a plan for when a critical vendor goes dark and you’re waiting.

Who should attend: Vendor Risk Managers, Third-Party Risk Analysts, Information Security leaders, and CISOs evaluating or maturing a TPRM program.