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Supply Chain Blind Spots: Build Vendor Resilience

In an increasingly connected business landscape, your organization is only as secure as your weakest vendor.

While most companies vet third-party vendors at the beginning of a contract, too many stop there leaving gaps that cybercriminals, outages, and compliance failures can exploit. In 2025 alone, multiple high-profile incidents have proven that even well-known vendors can become single points of failure.

⚠️ Recent Breach Examples

• Change Healthcare Breach Fallout: Even months later, healthcare providers are still uncovering financial and operational impacts tied to the ransomware attack on Change Healthcare’s systems. Thousands of downstream organizations were affected not because of their own infrastructure, but because of a trusted vendor’s failure.

• MOVEit Vulnerabilities Resurface: Despite remediation efforts from 2023, new variants of the MOVEit file transfer breach were uncovered earlier this year. Over 90 million records have now been exposed across more than 2,700 organizations due to third-party integrations.

These aren’t isolated events—they’re warnings. Organizations must stop thinking of vendor risk management as a checkbox and start treating it as a critical part of operational resilience.

🔍 The Vendor Blind Spot Checklist

To assess whether your organization is proactively managing third-party risk, ask yourself:

1. Do we regularly reassess vendor risk not just during onboarding?
   Continuous monitoring is essential, especially when vendors update systems or change ownership.

2. Do we know what data each vendor can access?
   Data mapping helps uncover vendors with unnecessary access to sensitive systems or PHI/PII.

3. Are vendor contracts updated with breach notification & compliance clauses?
   If your vendors aren’t contractually obligated to notify you of security incidents, you’re already behind.

4. Do we collect and review security certifications (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) on a set schedule?
   One-time reports are not enough. You need up-to-date evidence of continuing compliance.

5. Do we have a plan if a key vendor goes offline or suffers a breach?
   Without a vendor incident response and offboarding strategy, your business continuity is at risk.

Even a single “no” on this list signals a blind spot that leaves your organization vulnerable.

🛠️ VanRein Compliance Helps You Build Resilience

Our Vendor Risk Management Toolkit goes beyond due diligence. It helps organizations move from reactive assessment to proactive oversight through:

✅ Vendor Risk Scoring Frameworks – Quickly evaluate and prioritize third-party risks.
✅ Custom Security Checklists & Compliance Reviews – Tailored to HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or your specific regulatory environment.
✅ Ongoing Vendor Monitoring – Set up alerts, document reviews, and annual reassessments.
✅ Contract & Policy Review Services – Strengthen your agreements with clear security and breach clauses.
✅ Offboarding & Contingency Planning Support – So you're never left scrambling when a vendor fails.

🎯 Stop Managing Vendors. Start Building Resilience.

If your vendor oversight strategy hasn’t evolved in the last year, now is the time.

Let VanRein Compliance help you close the gaps, secure your supply chain, and build a third-party management program that strengthens—not weakens—your compliance position.

Join us in celebrating Speed E'z as VanRein Compliance’s Client of the Month for June 2025! In 2025 alone, Speed-E’z achieved HIPAA and SOC2 Type II Compliance—a massive milestone that reflects their proactive, culture-first approach to data protection and compliance.

Their leadership, grit, and transparency set the gold standard for what it means to be truly compliance-driven and we’re honored to be part of their journey.

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ATSI 2025 Conference

VanRein Compliance is headed to ATSI 2025! We have swag, we have VRC1, and bringing the energy to Phoenix, AZ from June 17–19!

🛡️ Meet us at the VRC Booth for live consultations, exclusive offers, and giveaways that make compliance actually exciting.

💡 And don’t miss Rob Van Buskirk’s must-see session on AI & Compliance in 2025! It’s the talk every TAS owner needs right now.

📅 Session Details:

📌 Topic: AI and Compliance in 2025: What TAS Owners Need to Know
🎙️ Speaker: Rob Van Buskirk, Co-Founder & CEO, VanRein Compliance
🗓️ Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025
⏰ Time: 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM PT
📍 Location: ATSI Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ

We look forward to connecting with attendees, sharing valuable insights, and continuing our mission to empower compliance-first organizations.

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