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Anyone with an AI subscription can now build software that does real work. Few companies have asked what happens when that software becomes business critical and the person who built it leaves.
Your Security Rating Is a Credit Score From a Company That's Never Met You
Security ratings platforms grade your vendors from the parking lot, bill somebody for the number, and hand your board a red dot to ask you about. Here's what the score actually measures and what deserves your diligence hours instead.
The Vendor of My Vendor Is My Vendor
Jack Henry, IDScan.net, and LexisNexis. Three companies that aren't banks, all of them a community bank's problem, and not one of them chosen by the bank. Why the failures keep landing a tier or two below the line where your vendor program stops looking.
Your Vendor's Auditor Is Also a Vendor
SR Bancorp's breach came through the firm hired to audit its controls. Most vendor risk programs never ask who has access to the data behind the audit itself.
When Your Vendor Gets Breached, You Find Out Last
A fintech software vendor got hit with ransomware and up to 1.35 million banking customers were exposed. Most of their banks did the questionnaire, got the SOC 2, and still found out months late. The control that matters isn't the one you audited.
Your AI Agent Has a Supply Chain. Did You Audit It?
One in four MCP servers expose AI agents to remote code execution. Most teams deploying agents do not know what an MCP server is. That is a supply chain problem disguised as an AI launch.
The AI Questionnaire Your Vendors Aren't Ready For
Your vendors' employees are using AI tools. That means your data is flowing to model providers you've never assessed. Here are the questions to start asking.
Concentration Risk Wasn't Just About Loans
Community banks have managed concentration risk for a century. Then we handed every customer record to a handful of SaaS aggregators. ShinyHunters is teaching us what that actually costs.
Your Vendor Questionnaire Doesn't Ask the Right OAuth Questions
Regulators have been citing 4th party risk for years. OAuth token chains are how it actually executes, and most vendor programs aren't built to catch it. Here's what to ask.
Your Vendors Are Your Biggest Security Risk. Here's What to Do About It.
Most community banks can answer every question about their own security posture. But ask about their vendors, and you get silence. Here's how to fix that.