Third-party risk
Questionnaires do not protect files. Post-Access Data Security extends to your third parties: every shared file stays encrypted, tracked, and revocable — so a compromised vendor gains nothing readable.
of organisations have at least one third-party vendor that has suffered a data breach.
average number of vendors accessing a company's network weekly.
average cost to remediate a data breach once it has happened.
Traditional TPRM vets vendors and monitors compliance. Neither measure prevents exposure once data leaves your organisation — you cannot verify that a vendor follows its own procedures, and you cannot see every gap in their stack.
Once files are shared externally, organisations have limited visibility into their usage, location and access.
Third-party vendors frequently store and handle sensitive files without sufficient encryption, leaving data vulnerable.
Compromised vendors become entry points for attackers, who target the weakest links to reach sensitive files.
Vendors that do not adhere strictly to GDPR, HIPAA or PCI DSS risk exposing your data — and the non-compliance penalties land on you.
File breaches at a vendor can disrupt your critical operations, causing downtime and financial losses.
A breach at any vendor, regardless of your internal controls, can significantly harm your brand and incur substantial costs.
Walk the timeline of a file you sent to a supplier. Toggle the data layer to see which ending you own.
HOW PADS ENFORCES TPRM
Make protection part of the relationship, from the first handoff to the last day of access.
Pick a window. Access ends when the window closes — or the moment you revoke it — on every copy already distributed.
Attackers target the weakest link to reach your files. When the files they reach are encrypted and under your control, the compromise stops at the vendor's perimeter.
Bring your vendor list and one sensitive share — we will walk the whole path in 30 minutes.
It removes the assumption that sharing a file means surrendering it. Files leave your estate already encrypted with policy attached, so a vendor's security posture no longer determines your exposure — and a compromise on their side yields ciphertext rather than your data.
Yes. Every access attempt, grant and denial is recorded with user, device and location context, whether the file sits in your estate or on a vendor's machine. Those events stream into your SIEM for anomaly detection and investigation.
You can establish immediately which of your files were in scope, who had opened them and when, then revoke access on every remaining copy. Because the exfiltrated files stay encrypted, no readable data was disclosed — which materially changes what you are obliged to report.
No. Network position grants nothing on its own. Decryption keys are held in a Hardware Security Module and released only for requests that satisfy policy, so lateral movement inside a vendor's network produces no readable data.
Disk and transport encryption protect data at rest and in motion, then hand over plaintext once a session is authenticated. File-level encryption persists through the authenticated session and travels with the file across systems, devices and organisations — which is exactly what third-party sharing requires.
Protected files open in their native applications with normal performance. Encryption, decryption and policy evaluation happen in the background, so vendors work the way they already work — no portal, no new account, no migration.
With third-party breaches on the rise, protection has to be proactive. Even if a vendor is compromised or mishandles your data, your information stays protected — keeping the business secure, compliant and resilient.