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Prevalent Case Study

Non-Profit

Introduction

This case study of a non-profit is based on an October 2019 survey of Prevalent customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled organization asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“Security risk management for subcontractors has improved significantly; Prevalent has reduced manual analysis & improved visibility.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled organization to evaluate and ultimately select Prevalent:

  • Top drivers for purchasing their Prevalent third-party risk management solution:
    • Compliance – reporting against specific regulatory or industry framework requirements
    • Stronger cybersecurity, to ensure that third parties do not introduce cyber risks that could negatively impact the business
    • Reduce operational burden (the process of assessing and evaluating vendors took too much time and resources)
    • Greater risk-based intelligence
  • Challenges that deploying Prevalent or solved for their organization:
    • A lack of automation in collecting and analyzing vendor surveys
    • A limited ability to continuously monitor vendors
    • A lack of insights to make risk-based decisions
    • An inability to share completed assessment content and supporting evidence to more quickly identify risks and vulnerabilities
    • Having no centralization of TPRM functions
  • Vendor evaluated before choosing Prevalent:
    • AdaptiveGRC

Use Case

  • Regulations or industry frameworks they must regularly report against:
  • Looking to grow the number of vendors they assess in the next 12 months by 0-10%.

Results

The surveyed organization achieved the following results with Prevalent:

  • The following Prevalent capabilities in terms of how differentiated they are compared to the competition:
    • In-solution communication with suppliers on remediating risks: differentiated
    • Scan third-party networks and apply business intelligence to provide and “outside-in” weighted score of risks: differentiated
  • How long it took to complete an assessment:
    • Before deploying Prevalent: more than a month
    • After deploying Prevalent: 2-3 weeks
  • Saved more than 1 week per assessment on average by utilizing the Prevalent Platform.




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of Prevalent by TechValidate.

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