SecurityScorecard's Weekly Brief: The CISO Edition with Steve Cobb
🏛️This is SecurityScorecard's Weekly Brief: The CISO Edition with SecurityScorecard's CISO Steve Cobb.
Is it time to retire the vendor questionnaire and annual assessment routines?
Not quite, but following face-to-face customer interactions and many forward-thinking speaking sessions at RSAC 2026, CISO Steve Cobb emphasizes the importance of reducing risk for TPRM programs, which is not achieved by completing a third-party risk assessment checklist alone.
“Many times those questions aren't really relevant to risk, especially given what the context is. And other times, questionnaires have 300 questions on them.”
In this week’s Weekly Brief, Cobb points out key areas to consider for a more modern approach to TPRM:
🔹 Detection of risk earlier through continuous supply chain discovery and real-time security signals – not periodic snapshots captured in yearly vendor assessments
🔹 Understanding not just quantity of third-party suppliers but how critical those vendors are in an organization's supply chain ecosystem
🔹 Thinking about third-party risk programs not solely as a compliance-driven function but as a security-driven effort
🔹 Agentic AI as a means to scale TPRM programs by eliminating manual labor that frees up capacity for more strategic work without raising costs
SecurityScorecard’s new platform TITAN AI replaces the reactive, manual grind of third-party risk management (TPRM) programs with AI-acceleration and predictive control.
It is built on top of SecurityScorecard’s industry-leading Ratings and TPRM platform with AI-driven technology and enhanced threat intelligence, delivering a powerful solution built for the demands of today's risk landscape.
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