TechValidate Research on Prevalent


Prevalent Case Study

Medium Enterprise Professional Services Company

Introduction

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

“We’ve built Prevalent into our internal processes as it pertains to vendor on-boarding. If the new vendor meets certain criteria, then they will undergo Prevalent assessment.”

Challenges

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

  • Top drivers for purchasing their Prevalent third-party risk management solution:
    • 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 3GRC 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
    • An inconsistent methodology for vendor risk management

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 company achieved the following results with Prevalent:

  • 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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