Third-party risk management vendors
We list 36 companies active in third-party risk and security ratings, and 15 of them have it as their main focus. 1 is public, 5 are owned by another company and 30 are private. Most are based in the United States (22). The oldest, Intertek, was founded in 1885.
By countryUnited States 22
Companies focused on third-party risk and security ratings
15 companies| Company | Based in | Founded | Size | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
BitScore Cybertech LLP BitScore Cybertech LLP is a delivery partner for Bitsight security ratings in India. | Ahmedabad, India | 2016 | Private | |
Bitsight Bitsight provides a cyber risk intelligence platform. | Back Bay, United States | 2011 | Private | |
Black Kite Black Kite provides an AI-native third-party cyber risk management platform for monitoring and assessing vendor risks. | Boston, United States | 2016 | Private | |
CyberVadis CyberVadis provides a managed service and platform for third-party cyber risk management. | Paris, France | 2018 | Private | |
Ethixbase360 Ethixbase360 sells third-party risk management software and due diligence services. | London, United Kingdom | 2011 | Private | |
ProcessUnity ProcessUnity provides a software platform for managing third-party and cybersecurity risk. | Concord, United States | Private | ||
RiskRecon by Mastercard RiskRecon provides cybersecurity ratings and assessments to help organisations manage third-party and supply chain risk. | Murray, United States | Private | ||
UpGuard UpGuard provides a platform for managing cyber risk across vendors, attack surface, and workforce. | Mountain View, United States | 2012 | Private | |
Venminder Third-party risk management software with outsourced vendor control assessments, continuous vendor risk monitoring and managed services, now part of Ncontracts. | United States | Owned by Ncontracts | ||
Whistic Whistic provides a platform for assessing, monitoring, and sharing vendor security and compliance information. | West Jordan, United States | Private | ||
Cortile Cortile automates vendor security reviews for healthcare third-party risk teams. | Ann Arbor, United States | 2025 | Private | |
HackRisk HackRisk monitors external cyber risks for UK SMEs and provides a security score. | Macclesfield, United Kingdom | Part of CyberLab | ||
OneTrust Third-party management and tech risk and compliance software, alongside privacy automation, consent management and AI governance tools. | Atlanta, United States | Private | ||
Panorays Third-party cyber risk management platform with vendor security questionnaires, external attack surface ratings, continuous monitoring and remediation workflows for suppliers. | New York, United States | Private | ||
SecurityScorecard SecurityScorecard provides a platform for managing third-party and supply chain cyber risk. | New York, United States | 2013 | Private |
Also active in third-party risk and security ratings
21 companies| Company | Based in | Founded | Size | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Secarma Manchester-based independent cybersecurity consultancy with over 20 years of experience delivering CREST and CHECK-accredited penetration testing, red teaming, and compliance certification services. | Manchester, United Kingdom | 2001 | 11-50 staff | Private |
Komodo Consulting Israeli-headquartered global cybersecurity consultancy with a UK presence, specialising in penetration testing and TIBER-EU red team exercises for Fortune 500 companies. | London, United Kingdom | 2011 | 1-10 staff | Private |
Alvor Alvor provides a security architecture management and compliance platform. | Melbourne, Australia | 2026 | Private | |
Archer Integrated risk management software covering enterprise and operational risk, IT and security risk, compliance, audit, third-party governance and operational resilience. | Overland Park, United States | Owned by Cinven | ||
Babel Street Risk intelligence platform that gathers multilingual online data and uses AI agents for threat, identity and vendor risk investigations by government and enterprise. | Reston, United States | Private | ||
CRACI CRACI provides build-time software supply chain security and SBOM generation for developers. | Helsinki, Finland | 2025 | Private | |
CybelAngel CybelAngel provides external threat intelligence and attack surface management services to protect enterprise data and assets. | Clichy, France | 2013 | Private | |
CyberSentien CyberSentien provides a compliance assurance engine that assesses organisations against multiple security and AI governance frameworks. | Australia | 2025 | Private | |
Drata Drata provides a platform that automates security compliance, risk management and trust assurance for companies. | San Francisco, United States | 2020 | Private | |
Fivecast Open source intelligence software that collects and analyses online data to detect threats and hidden networks for national security, law enforcement and financial crime teams. | Adelaide, Australia | Private | ||
Intertek Testing and certification group that helps vehicle makers and suppliers work towards ISO/SAE 21434 compliance. | United Kingdom | 1885 | Public, ITRK | |
LexisNexis Risk Solutions Risk data and analytics provider whose ThreatMetrix, Emailage and InstantID products detect fraud and verify digital identities for banks, insurers and governments. | Alpharetta, United States | Private | ||
Lumu Lumu provides network detection and response to identify and stop cyber threats in real time. | Doral, United States | Private | ||
MetricStream GRC software covering IT and cyber risk, IT and cyber compliance, vendor and third-party risk, enterprise risk, regulatory compliance, internal audit and resilience. | San Jose, United States | Private | ||
NetRise NetRise analyses compiled software to create an inventory of components and identify supply chain risks. | Austin, United States | 2020 | Part of Dragos | |
Optro Audit, risk and compliance software, formerly AuditBoard, with controls management, cyber risk management, third-party risk, regulatory compliance and AI governance products. | United States | Private | ||
Protos AI Protos AI provides managed adversary risk intelligence by collecting and analysing threat signals for organisations. | Singapore, Singapore | Owned by Protos Labs | ||
Vanta Vanta provides a platform for automating security compliance and risk management. | San Francisco, United States | 2018 | Private | |
vCISO Lite vCISO Lite sells a subscription platform that helps growing companies handle security compliance and risk. | Atlanta, United States | 2026 | Private | |
ZeroRisk ZeroRisk provides an agentic platform that automates compliance and vendor risk assessments. | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Private | ||
ServiceNow Integrated risk management software for policy, compliance, audit and third-party risk, sold as part of a wider IT and business workflow platform. | Santa Clara, United States | Private |
Recent deals in third-party risk and security ratings
All third-party risk and security ratings dealsAcquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.