Vendor risk assessments that end in a decision, not a spreadsheet
Pistos scopes each vendor, sends a questionnaire sized to its risk, turns the answers into findings, tracks the fixes and records the approval. Every step stays linked to the answer that raised it.
A vendor risk assessment is only useful if it ends with someone deciding whether to use the vendor, on what conditions. Pistos runs the whole path in one place: a short scoping questionnaire sets the vendor's risk tier and decides which modules it gets, the vendor answers in a guided portal, your reviewers validate each answer and raise findings, and an approver signs off the decision. Vendors answer for free and only ever see their own assessment.
What you get
Scoping and tiering
A short scoping questionnaire tiers each vendor and decides which modules it needs, so a low-risk vendor is not sent a hundred questions.
Questionnaires and live progress
Send questionnaires and watch completion in a single assessment tracker. Vendors can forward the 14-day invitation to whoever should answer.
Automated risk rating
Configurable risk rules score every vendor as assessments come in, so the riskiest relationships surface without manual triage.
Findings and remediation
Record findings with severity, owner and due date, ask vendors for fixes and track them to closure.
Vendor decisions
Approve, approve with conditions or reject, with sign-off from an approver. Open findings are flagged before a decision can be closed.
Rounds that start from last time
Each new assessment round starts from the previous answers, so vendors only confirm what changed.
How it works
Scope
Add the vendor and answer a few scoping questions to set its tier.
Assess
Send the questionnaire and follow the vendor's progress.
Review
Validate answers and record findings with severity.
Remediate
Track fixes to closure with owners and due dates.
Decide
Record and sign off the vendor decision.
Questions
What is vendor risk assessment software?
It is software that helps you evaluate the security and compliance risk of the companies you buy from: sending questionnaires, scoring the answers, recording findings and tracking each vendor to a decision. Pistos does this from scoping through sign-off.
Do vendors have to pay or install anything?
No. Vendors answer for free in a guided portal, can sign in with an emailed link instead of a password, and can invite teammates onto the same account.
Can I import questionnaires vendors already answered?
Yes. Upload the completed spreadsheet, match its columns to Pistos fields once, and the mapping is saved for next time. Imported answers go through the same review and findings process.
How is the risk rating calculated?
You configure the risk rules and Pistos scores every vendor against them automatically as assessments come in. The rating comes from your assessment, not from a third-party score.
Related
Third-party risk management
Onboard vendors from a ticket, assess them, monitor them between reviews and keep the evidence, findings and decisions in one program.
Security questionnaire software
Guided questionnaires, forwardable invitations, answers that carry over from the last round and a reviewer workflow that turns responses into findings.
Continuous vendor monitoring
Know when a vendor changes between assessments.
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