Third-Party & Supply Chain Risk Management
Assess, monitor, and govern the cybersecurity risk introduced by your vendors, third-party software, and your organization's Nth-party dependencies.
Nth-party vendor
Tier 4 · outside direct visibility
Direct vendor
Tier 1 · access to critical systems
Monitored perimeter
Continuous surveillance · HodeiShield
Your organization
Core with internal controls
Containment engages before it reaches production.
The challenge
Your organization runs on an ecosystem of vendors, third-party software, cloud services, and open-source dependencies. Each one widens your exposure in ways internal teams rarely see, and that exposure extends to your vendors' vendors (Nth-party risk). Cases like SolarWinds, Kaseya, and Log4j showed how a single link can affect thousands of organizations at once.
Most third-party risk programs rely on an annual questionnaire that nobody verifies and that doesn't reflect the vendor's real posture. The result is an incomplete inventory and an outdated picture of the risk you actually carry.
NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, and ENS all require active management of third-party and supply chain risk. Turning that requirement into a living program — with criticality tiering, proportional controls, and continuous monitoring — is what separates paper compliance from real resilience.
What makes us different
Four pillars that apply to every service and every solution, not a one-off slogan.
Offensive + defensive + AI
The same team that attacks in the pentest runs the SOC and builds the AI models. Offensive insight informs defense, and AI is applied where we already operate, not bolted on as an extra layer.
Compliance in weeks, not months
HodeiShield, our own platform, automates continuous assessment, control mapping, and evidence generation — so manual work no longer sets the pace of regulatory compliance.
Sovereignty and proximity
Infrastructure on OVHcloud (France/EU). You speak with the people who sign off on the work, not an account manager who forwards your request to another department.
Our own product
HodeiShield isn't a third-party product we resell: we build and operate it ourselves, and that's what lets us offer faster compliance and evidence that's always current.
Our approach
We map your complete digital supply chain — direct vendors, software dependencies, cloud services, and integration points — and classify each third party by criticality based on system access, data sensitivity, and security maturity. HodeiShield discovers Nth-party dependencies up to four levels deep, quantifies risk in euros with the FAIR model, and connects with your procurement and GRC tools.
For each criticality tier we define proportional controls: self-assessment (a questionnaire the vendor completes based on their own knowledge) for low-risk vendors; professional analysis (in-situ technical audit and pentesting with Hodeitek's verification) for those with access to critical systems. We establish contractual security requirements and manage the vendor lifecycle — onboarding, periodic review, and offboarding — with a Vendor Portal where the vendor keeps their own posture up to date.
Monitoring doesn't end at the initial assessment. We deploy continuous surveillance of your vendors' attack surface (public exposures, vulnerabilities, and posture changes) alongside internal technical controls — network segmentation, least privilege for integrations, and software composition analysis (SCA) — that contain the impact if a third party is compromised.
How we deliver
Structured methodology for measurable outcomes.
Mapping & Tiering
We map vendors, software dependencies, cloud services, and integration points, and tier each third party by criticality based on system access, data, and security maturity.
Proportional Controls
For each risk tier we define fit-for-purpose controls: from self-assessment to pentesting. We set contractual requirements and manage the vendor lifecycle with verification at every stage.
Continuous Monitoring
Continuous Nth-party attack-surface surveillance and FAIR quantification, with internal controls — segmentation, least privilege, and SCA — that contain the impact of a compromised third party.
Benefits
Tangible outcomes for your organization.
Powered by HodeiShield
HodeiShield automates mapping and continuous monitoring: Nth-party discovery up to 4 levels deep, FAIR quantification in euros, and alerts correlated with MITRE ATT&CK. Your team moves from manual 6-month audits to daily visibility.
Discover HodeiShieldMethodology: how we implement it
Discovery, execution, delivery and follow-up — a clear path to continuous operation.
Discovery
Vendor and software inventory. Classification by criticality.
Framework design
Risk model, contractual requirements, and onboarding plan.
Rollout
HodeiShield integrated, segmentation, and SCA enabled in CI/CD.
Continuous monitoring
Real-time alerts + quarterly reviews.
Operational example
A real scenario of how we work, not a marketing figure.
A software vendor that bills through your ERP suffers a breach and discloses it publicly. Instead of waiting for the vendor to notify you, HodeiShield already had it tiered by data-access criticality; the risk team receives the correlated alert, reviews that vendor's contract and contingency plan, and decides within hours whether compensating controls are needed — without having to reconstruct from scratch who had access to what.
Compared to a generalist integrator
No names — here's how we work differently, with verifiable facts.
| Criteria | Generalist integrator | Hodeitek |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Dozens of business lines; cybersecurity is just one of them | 100% cybersecurity and AI |
| Point of contact | An account manager who forwards your request to another department | Direct contact with the founders |
| Regulatory compliance | One-off reports per regulation, manual evidence management | HodeiShield automates evidence and cross-framework NIS2/ENS/DORA mapping |
| Product | Resells third-party licenses | Builds and operates HodeiShield, its own platform |
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