The average organisation now manages 286 vendor relationships, and breaches originating  outside the organisation now account for 30% of all incidents, double the figure reported in the  previous year.  Third-party risk has become one of the defining challenges facing organisations across Europe.  As vendor ecosystems grow in scale and complexity, the attack surface expands with it. But risk doesn’t stop at direct vendors. It extends to Nth parties, spans every risk domain – cyber, data, ESG, resilience – and cuts across every function that touches a vendor relationship. Managing this holistically, as a coordinated enterprise capability rather than a siloed procurement function, is now achievable in a way it wasn't five years ago. Technology has made visibility possible. The question is whether organisations are using it. 

This webinar challenges the status quo of traditional third-party assurance models and explores  how to govern the extended enterprise with intelligence, context, and accountability. We will examine: 

● Why the traditional assurance model –questionnaires, contracts, and compliance 
certificates – is insufficient 
● Where European regulators are heading, and why accountability is increasingly personal 
● The scaling challenge: managing risk across a growing vendor ecosystem without 
proportional increases in resources 
● What a mature supply chain risk operating model looks like in practice 
● How technology makes genuine, continuous assurance achievable at scale