Map the Data Flow Before You Rate the Vendor

You cannot protect data paths you have not drawn. Why this matters NIST SP 800-161 Rev. 1 C-SCRM works because it turns vendor risk from a vague feeling into an explicit management system: define the business objective, identify the third party dependency, estimate how the dependency could fail, choose a treatment, and keep evidence current after onboarding. The mechanism is not paperwork for its own sake. It is a way to make uncertainty visible before the organization is locked into a contract, integration, or data flow. In vendor-risk work, the failure mode is usually timing. Teams ask hard questions after…

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