Investigate and Monitor Your Ecosystem for Risk

It is commonly known that the U.S. Government and commercial entities are required to work with vendors, contractors and employees to conduct their missions.  The purpose of Vendor Risk Management or VRM (called Vendor Threat Mitigation or VTM in DoD Directive 3000.16) is to leverage Open-Source Intelligence or OSINT and applications as well as internal and sensitive data to identify, assess and mitigate risks that surround cybersecurity, financial, reputational, operational and compliance concerns. While an initial assessment is critical to ensure compliance, continued monitoring is essential to ensure that vendors meet security expectations not just before but after engagement. 

Due to the various risks that vendors can pose to an organization, proper vendor threat mitigation requires access to multiple and disparate data sets and systems to address them. These risks are usually classified as cybersecurity risk, data privacy risk, financial and credit risk, operational and business continuity risk, reputational and brand, geopolitical and supply chain and emerging technology and AI. A well-rounded VRM program will require access to datasets or applications that address all of these and will also be capable of monitoring these data sets and applications for any changes indicative of risk. 

Blue Fusion, the 2021 Security Industry Association’s Convergence Technology of the Year, addresses an organization’s requirement for VTM by providing a centralized architecture to connect to and monitor disparate data feeds and applications and query or monitor them for changes in a vendor’s status. The technology’s ability to orchestrate data for any output allows the convergence of numerous data forms into one that is required by the application or user. Blue Fusion automates the entire VRM/VTM workflow from querying to reporting or delivery of data that allows organizations to scale and save money by collapsing the level of effort necessary to manage and monitor all the data sources required. 

Combined with Reveal, our no-code visual environment, Blue Fusion enables users at any level to create complex searches using an intuitive, easy to train, visual interface with dynamic aperture adjustment to narrow or expand your search focus to uncover hidden relationships in data. With its patented federated search, Reveal visualizes query results in real-time and incorporates built in tools to perform deep link analysis, multi-hop search expansion, and hidden link discovery to investigate risks to your organization.

Our security and governance model empowers organizations to build their own VRM/VTM environment behind the firewall while leaving precious data at rest with read-only access to all data sources. Blue Fusion deploys into any environment as a data and network agnostic solution, installing seamlessly into your preferred intelligence environment on-prem and behind any managed attribution system and includes a scalable data repository to save your curated information into an open-source database that belongs to the organization, eliminating proprietary formats so data is never held hostage.