TechValidate Research on Prevalent


Prevalent Case Study

Large Enterprise Professional Services Company

Introduction

This case study of a large enterprise professional services company is based on a July 2021 survey of Prevalent customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Reduced time.”

Challenges

  • Their primary vendor risk assessment pain points were:
    • Too much time spent scouring through disconnected sources of information to make good risk-based vendor selection decisions
    • Too much time spent manually onboarding new vendors
    • Complex, manual assessment processes (e.g., using spreadsheets)
  • Estimated time spent on vendor sourcing and selection:
    • Before Prevalent: 1 day+
    • Since Prevalent: 2-4 hours

Use Case

  • Currently assessing their vendors for the following:
    • Business Resilience
    • Cybersecurity
    • Data Privacy

Results

  • Level of agreement:
    • Prevalent provides the inherent risk visibility they need to focus on specific areas of their vendors’ risks: agree
    • Prevalent provides a programmatic process to offboard vendors that reduces risk: agree
  • Prevalent is critical on the following vendor lifecycle stages:
    • Intake and vendor onboarding: important
    • Scoring inherent risks: important
    • Assessing vendors and remediating risks: important
  • Level of agreement:
    • Prevalent allows us to do our job more effectively: agree
    • Prevalent’s vendor risk assessment process is invaluable to our group: agree
    • Prevalent reduced the time and complexity required to perform vendor risk assessments: agree




About This Data

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