Commit to assigning one vendor a risk tier based on data, access, dependency, and evidence.
Assign a criticality tier to one vendor and identify the security action that tier requires. Use the vendor's data access, system access, business dependency, substitutability, control evidence, and contract obligations to make a decision. Vendor: [name]. Data handled: [classes]. Access: [SSO/API/admin/network]. Business dependency: [process and outage impact]. Substitutability: [easy/moderate/hard]. Evidence available: [SOC 2, pen test, ISO, questionnaire, monitoring]. Tier: [1/2/3]. Required action: [contract term, access reduction, evidence request, monitoring rule, exit plan]. Owner/date: [role/date]. In 3 days, check whether the tier produced one concrete action rather than just a label. A customer support SaaS vendor has SSO integration, customer PII,…
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