Supply chain cybersecurity manages the risk that flows through your vendors, software, and partners — the third parties attackers use to reach you. Intuitus delivers third-party risk assessment, continuous monitoring, and incident response, helping you vet suppliers, meet customer security requirements, and contain an incident before it spreads across your supply chain.
Supply Chain
Securing the relationships that power your business.
Your security posture extends beyond your own network. Vendors, suppliers, and partners all introduce risk to your operations, data, and compliance. We help you see it, assess it, and manage it.
The risk
Your risk now lives in other companies’ networks.
- Third-party access into critical systems and data
- Limited visibility into vendor security controls
- Sensitive data and CUI flowing between organizations
- CMMC and security flow-down from your customers
- Incident response that has to span multiple parties
- Onboarding vendors without a consistent risk process
Why it matters
A supplier’s breach becomes your breach.
Operational disruption, exposed data, compliance findings, and reputational damage — triggered by a partner you don’t directly control.
How we help
Visibility and control across your supplier ecosystem.
Prevent
Third-party risk assessments, data-flow mapping, and vendor security reviews.
Detect
Monitoring for exposure across your extended environment and partners.
Respond
Coordinated incident response across organizational boundaries.
Recover
Continuous risk management and stronger onboarding controls.
Compliance at a glance
Built for flow-down and third-party obligations.
- CMMC flow-down — help meeting requirements passed down from primes
- NIST SP 800-161 — supply-chain risk management practices
- SIG / SIG Lite — structured third-party security assessments
Why Intuitus
Manage risk beyond your network.
Whole-ecosystem view
We map where critical data lives, how it moves, and where the gaps are.
Practical controls
Right-sized vendor controls that strengthen resilience without stalling the business.
“A contractor built a repeatable vendor-risk process and cleared a prime’s flow-down requirements.” — anonymized.
Free download
Third-Party Risk Checklist
A practical starting point for assessing and managing vendor cyber risk.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is supply chain cybersecurity?
Supply chain cybersecurity manages the risk introduced by vendors, software, and partners with access to your systems or data. It covers vetting third parties, monitoring for exposure, and responding when a supplier or software component is compromised.
What is a supply chain attack?
A supply chain attack compromises you through a trusted third party — a vendor, a software update, or a managed provider — instead of attacking you directly. Recent examples have spread through software dependencies and IT suppliers.
How do you assess third-party and vendor risk?
Intuitus evaluates suppliers against your security requirements, identifies exposed or over-privileged access, and helps you set contractual and monitoring controls so vendor risk is visible and managed, not assumed.
How does this relate to CMMC and NIST?
NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC include supply chain and external-provider controls. Intuitus maps your third-party risk program to those requirements so it supports compliance as well as security.
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