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Vendor data breach alerts

Hear about a vendor breach from your program, not the news

VendRisk360 watches breach disclosures, regulatory filings and leak sites, matches every event to the vendors you rely on, confirms it, and alerts the people who own those vendors, with the vendor’s tier, data and assessment history alongside.

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Why it matters

A vendor’s breach is often your incident too

When a vendor that holds your data or runs a critical service is breached, the clock on your own decisions starts at disclosure, not when the vendor gets round to telling you. Monitoring disclosure sources directly closes that gap.

  • Disclosures matched to the vendors on your register
  • Verified breaches alerted at once; claims and partial matches checked first
  • The vendor’s tier, data and assessment history beside the alert
  • Your response recorded for audit and reporting
Part of Continuous Monitoring
Sources

Where breach and incident signals come from

Public, attributable sources, each read on its own rolling schedule. Every alert shows which source it came from.

SEC cyber incident filings

Form 8-K Item 1.05 disclosures of material cybersecurity incidents, and other 8-K filings that report a cyber event, for listed vendors and their parents.

State breach notices

Data breach notifications published by state attorneys general, such as California and Washington, which name the organization and when it happened.

Ransomware leak-site claims

Victims named on ransomware groups’ leak sites. Always treated as a claim to check, never as a confirmed breach.

Breach databases

Published breaches tied to the vendor’s domains in public breach databases.

Breaches in the news

News coverage of a breach or incident at the vendor, kept as unverified until it is confirmed.

Signs of compromise

Vendor hosts and addresses listed as malware or botnet infrastructure or on DNS blocklists, which can show an incident before it is disclosed.
Before and beyond disclosure

Signs of compromise, and breaches further down the chain

Not every incident starts with a press release, and not every breach that affects you happens at a vendor you contract with directly.

Signs of compromise

Vendor hosts listed as malware or botnet infrastructure, or on DNS blocklists, are raised by attack surface monitoring, often before any disclosure.

Vendor breach advisories

When a provider many vendors depend on is breached, the VendRisk360 team identifies which of your vendors rely on it and tells your organization.

The right owners

Alerts go to the people who look after vendor and security risk, each choosing how they receive them.

How it works

From disclosure to a decision on the vendor

From the moment a breach is disclosed to the decision your team makes about the vendor.

Know what the vendor holds

The vendor’s tier, the data it processes and the services it supports are on the record before anything happens.

Check the evidence

Its last assessment, incident response evidence and open findings are one click away.
See who else relies on the breached provider
  1. 01

    Collected once, for every customer

    Sources
    Each source is read on its own rolling schedule and every event is matched against the companies VendRisk360 monitors, so a breach is picked up once and reaches every organization that relies on that vendor.
  2. 02

    Matched to the right company

    No name collisions
    An event that names the vendor exactly is verified. One that only contains the name, such as a similarly named company, is held as unverified for an analyst to confirm. Leak-site claims are always claims.
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    Alerted, or kept for the digest

    Signal, not noise
    A verified breach is alerted straight away, in the app and by email, and in your Slack or Microsoft Teams channels where you have connected them. Unverified events and claims go to the daily digest, and repeats are not sent twice.
  4. 04

    Recorded on the vendor

    One record
    The event, its source and your response sit on the vendor record next to the vendor’s tier, the data it holds, its assessment and its findings, and appear in executive reporting.
  5. 05

    Decide what happens next

    Your team
    Follow up with the vendor, request remediation, raise a finding or bring the next assessment forward, and work through any notification obligations of your own with the facts in one place.
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How it all fits: the TPRM guide
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is a vendor data breach alert?

A notice that one of your vendors has disclosed, or is reported to have suffered, a data breach or security incident. VendRisk360 watches public disclosure sources, matches each event to the vendors on your register and alerts the people who own those vendors, so you hear about it from your own program rather than from the news.

Who receives the alert?

The people in your organization who look after vendor and security risk, such as the CISO, risk managers, risk analysts and administrators. Alerts appear in the app and by email, and in Slack or Microsoft Teams where your organization has connected them. Each person can choose how they receive non-mandatory notifications.

Does an alert tell us whether we must notify anyone?

No. The alert gives your team the facts in one place: what happened, at which vendor, what data and services that vendor supports for you, and its assessment history. Decisions about your own notification obligations remain with your organization and its advisers.

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