Many third-party risk management (TPRM) platforms promise you supplier insight, cyber risk visibility, and peace of mind. But peel back the layers, and you’ll find something missing:
🔍 They don’t actually do any scanning.
Platforms like RiskLedger, Intruder.io, and others are often just polished front-ends sitting on top of someone else’s tech — or worse, entirely reliant on your suppliers to do the work for them.
Let’s break this down.
Why Scanning Matters
You can’t secure what you don’t assess.
To understand your suppliers’ real-world exposure, you need:
✅ Live data about vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
✅ External attack surface monitoring
✅ Context about what’s exploitable and why it matters
✅ Benchmarked posture vs. sector norms
Yet most TPRM tools skip this step entirely — or outsource it to generic scan engines that don’t integrate with the risk scoring, reporting, or remediation logic.
That’s like hiring a security guard who reads last year’s crime statistics instead of watching the CCTV.
The Form-Fill Fallacy
Modern platforms like RiskLedger, Vanta, and Prevalent offer questionnaires and workflow tools — often beautiful and slick.
But:
🧾 They rely on suppliers to self-report
📉 Supplier completion rates often fall below 30%
❌ Most don’t validate answers with any kind of scan
📊 Risk scoring becomes a guess — not a measurement
This “trust first, verify maybe” model is increasingly unacceptable for regulated sectors, insurance audits, and due diligence.
Intruder.io: Just a Channel for Tenable
Take Intruder.io as an example.
🔍 Their scanning engine is Tenable, a mainstream tool with its own standalone products
💼 Intruder doesn’t build the scanning — it wraps it in a dashboard
⚙️ Their core value is in packaging — not detection, correlation, or prioritisation
You’re essentially paying a middleman to present someone else’s results.
And they don’t prioritise risks based on business context. So a broken test portal and your finance database may look equally urgent — or equally invisible.
The Cyber Tzar Difference
Cyber Tzar doesn’t just pass through someone else’s data.
We built our own scanning and prioritisation engine from the ground up, specifically for:
✅ Continuous vulnerability detection
✅ Live threat intelligence correlation
✅ Business impact scoring
✅ Board-ready risk benchmarking
✅ Supply chain-wide aggregation
We don’t ask vendors to tell you what’s wrong.
We show you — and give you the fix.
Why This Matters at Scale
As your supply chain grows, gaps become liabilities.
🧩 You’ll need to scan Tier 2 vendors without relying on their goodwill
📣 You’ll need risk signals even when questionnaires go unanswered
📈 You’ll need insights that go beyond a flat “yes/no” or checkbox
And that means owning the scanning process — not renting it.
📉 Is your TPRM platform giving you forms and dashboards — but no real insight?
🔍 Try a free Cyber Tzar scan and see what your current provider is missing.
Start at cybertzar.com
