Third-party risk management
Third-party risk, run for you and ready for audit.
OnLayer runs supplier due diligence as one managed process. It sends the right questionnaire to each third party, chases the answers, and has specialists score them against ISO 27001, PCI DSS and GDPR.
- Outreach and chasing done for you
- Specialists score the answers
- Built for banks and payment firms
Where it hurts today
The problems OnLayer is built for
Chasing takes the time
Collecting documents from many third parties uses up your own staff.
Late and incomplete answers
Gaps in supplier responses become gaps in your compliance position.
Scoring needs expertise
Judging technical answers against each framework is specialist work.
Evidence expires quietly
Certificates lapse unnoticed until an audit finds them.
What it does
Everything OnLayer covers
- Managed outreach
- OnLayer contacts your third parties and coordinates their responses.
- Questionnaires by category
- Different sets for technology, legal, procurement and other kinds of supplier.
- SLA tracking
- Deadlines for assessments and responses tracked in one place.
- Expert evaluation
- Specialists evaluate the answers against ISO 27001, PCI DSS and GDPR.
- Risk tiering
- Each third party placed in a low, medium or high tier, from profiling and human judgement.
- Audit-ready scoring
- A score per third party that stands as evidence in an audit.
- Document validity
- Supplied documents are monitored, so expired evidence is noticed in time.
- Renewal alerts
- Automatic alerts when a renewal is due.
- External scanning, optional
- Continuous outside-in checks of what suppliers say about their own security.
- Breach and leak detection
- Vendor breaches, leaked passwords and exposed data flagged early.
- Sanctions and watchlist screening
- Vendors screened against global lists, with every match logged and time-stamped.
- One dashboard
- The third-party risk picture in one place, open to everyone involved.
- Compliance reports
- Ready-made reports exported for internal and external audits.
- Documents and deadlines together
- Vendor documents and their dates kept in one record.
How it works
From first connection to steady state
Intake
Each third party is classified by category, access and data sensitivity.
Outreach
Questionnaires go out and responses are coordinated within the SLA.
Evaluation
Answers are scored against the frameworks, with experts on the technical detail.
Tiering
A low, medium or high tier and an audit-ready score.
Monitoring
Validity, renewals and optional external scanning keep it current.
Dashboards and reports draw on the full record at every stage.
Where it is used
What teams use OnLayer for
Information security and GRC
Centralise reviews and keep suppliers in line with audit controls.
Compliance and legal
Validate adherence to data protection and service frameworks.
Operations and procurement
Faster onboarding and renewal, informed by risk.
IT and infrastructure
See third-party exposure and critical digital dependencies.
Audit preparation
Scores, evidence and reports held ready.
Leaving spreadsheets behind
Questionnaires, chasing, documents and deadlines in one workflow.
Figures as published by OnLayer.
Built for
Who it serves
Standards
Frameworks
The frameworks third parties are evaluated against.
With Channel Nexus
Talk to someone who knows OnLayer
One call, several technologies
On the booking page you choose OnLayer and any other technology you want to hear about.
A consultant first, the vendor when it helps
A Channel Nexus consultant takes the call and brings in OnLayer's own specialists for the detail.
A time that suits you
You pick the time. If a consultant cannot make it, we propose other times that suit you.