This white paper explains how third-party risk management programs can mature by adding threat intelligence to traditional vendor assessments, since breaches frequently originate from suppliers and many organizations lack confidence they would be notified. It outlines a maturity model and recommends moving from manual questionnaires to continuous monitoring, automated workflows, and fourth- and fifth-party visibility, then shows how SecurityScorecard Attack Surface Intelligence complements ratings by surfacing active threats such as ransomware events, weaponized vulnerabilities, malicious IP reputation, and malware infections. A case example (“Oceano Industries”) demonstrates scanning large vendor portfolios, prioritizing actionable threats, automating alerts and outreach with Rule Builder

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