Flag data breaches at vendors

Add daily breach checks to third party risk management by scanning news for each vendor that holds your data, using AI to confirm real incidents, and sending data breach alerts to security and vendor owners.

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Security and risk teams who respond to third party incidents, vendor owners and procurement managers responsible for each vendor relationship, and privacy and compliance staff who handle breach notifications.

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Every morning, the automation reads the vendor register in [vendor register, e.g. procurement platform, vendor management system, spreadsheet] for vendors marked as holding company or customer data and searches [news and breach disclosure sources, e.g. news search API, breach notification databases, RSS feeds] for each one. It uses AI via [AI model provider] to judge whether each result reports a breach at that specific vendor. For each confirmed match, it alerts the security team and the vendor's internal owner in [team chat platform, e.g. Slack, Microsoft Teams] with the source link and the data the vendor holds, then logs the incident on the vendor record in [vendor register].

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Problem

Operations teams review vendors once at onboarding and then rely on each vendor to report its own security incidents. When a vendor that holds company or customer data is breached, the news often arrives late or through the press, leaving no time to cut access, assess exposure, or meet notification duties to customers and regulators.

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Every morning, the automation reads the vendor register for vendors marked as holding company or customer data and searches news and breach disclosure sources for each one. It uses AI to judge whether each result reports a breach at that specific vendor. For each confirmed match, it alerts the security team and the vendor's internal owner in team chat with the source link and the data the vendor holds, then logs the incident on the vendor record.

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Impact

The business hears about a breach at a vendor while there is still time to cut access and assess exposure, instead of learning about it from customers or the press.

Benefits 

Who is this for? 

Security and risk teams who respond to third party incidents, vendor owners and procurement managers responsible for each vendor relationship, and privacy and compliance staff who handle breach notifications.

Success stories

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