Enterprise Adoption of Bitsight's AI-Driven Third-Party Risk Platform Soars, Slashing Vendor Onboarding 70% and Breach Risk 75%

Enterprise Adoption of Bitsight's Integrated Third-Party Risk and Exposure Management Surges as AI Reshapes Workflows

Enterprises are consolidating third-party risk management on one platform and seeing measurable gains. Bitsight reports up to 70% faster vendor onboarding and up to a 75% reduction in the likelihood of breach from third-party vulnerabilities, driven by AI-powered workflows and a unified dataset.

"Point solutions may automate a single task, but they fail to provide the continuous, threat-informed visibility enterprises require," said Vanessa Jankowski, SVP of Product at Bitsight. "With Bitsight AI, organizations are moving away from siloed tools in favor of integrated workflows - delivering real, actionable intelligence - that enables faster decisions and more resilient operations at scale."

Why this matters for management

• Shorter cycle times: Vendor onboarding cut by as much as 70%, freeing teams for higher-value work.
• Lower risk: Threat-informed intelligence reduces breach likelihood tied to third parties by as much as 75%.
• Fewer tools, clearer accountability: Integrated workflows replace fragmented point solutions.
• Continuous oversight: Real-time exposure and threat data keeps decisions current.

What's fueling the uptick

• Integrated TPRM workflows: Questionnaire exchange, AI-driven framework alignment, and live exposure/threat intelligence in one place.
• Scale and network effects: The Trust Management Hub Vendor Network has reached 68,000 organizations, simplifying secure exchange of security documents and questionnaires.
• Measured growth: Vendor Risk Management customers are up 39% year over year.
• Task elimination: Framework Intelligence is reducing vendor assessment tasks by more than 99%.

Framework Intelligence: From hours to minutes

Parsing questionnaires and mapping documentation to standards is a time sink. Framework Intelligence automates alignment to SIG, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001. Early users report tasks that took up to 8 hours now completing in about 90 seconds.

Combined with Bitsight's dataset-spanning deep/dark web intelligence, external exposure signals, and documentation from thousands of vendors-leaders get a living view of each vendor's risk posture.

Customer validation

"Managing third-party risk used to mean juggling multiple tools and manual processes," said Jason Benedict, CISO of Fordham University. "With Bitsight, we finally have an integrated platform that ties it all together-AI speeds up the work, and the intelligence behind it means our decisions are more reliable."

What's coming next

• Deeper integrated VRM workflows: Turn framework assessment results into vendor actions using the growing network and ecosystem artifacts.
• Smarter VRM agents: New Trust and Findings agents will gather artifacts, pull insights from trust centers and public sources, surface key risks, and automate follow-ups.
• Threat intelligence overlay: Prioritize based on active threat actor behavior across deep, dark, and open web sources.

Manager's action list

• Quantify current baseline: onboarding time, assessment backlog, and third-party incident rates.
• Consolidate tool sprawl: migrate fragmented assessments and questionnaires into one workflow.
• Adopt threat-informed prioritization: tie vendor actions to live exposure and threat signals.
• Standardize on frameworks: automate alignment to SIG, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001 to cut compliance overhead.
• Operationalize metrics: set targets for cycle time, response quality, and risk reduction; review monthly.

Learn more

Explore Bitsight's Trust Management Hub and join the vendor network for streamlined assessments: bitsight.com/products/trust-management-hub.