Monitor a new vendor

• Vendor risk overview
• Monitor a vendor (with a web presence)
• Monitor a vendor (without a web presence)
• Add vendor attributes

Vendor Risk overview

UpGuard's Vendor Risk is a self-service platform where you can automate your third party risk assessment workflows, receive instant notifications about your vendors' security, and streamline the vendor lifecycle management in a centralized dashboard. With Vendor Risk, you can monitor vendors that you have a relationship with, access information about your monitored vendors, manage vendor assessments, and set up notifications to alert you if a vendor's status changes. You can also send questionnaires to vendors to help you communicate and resolve potential risks.

Monitor a new vendor (with a web presence)

1. Click the Vendor Risk icon in UpGuard’s left-hand navigation panel. 
2. Click + Monitor new vendor. 
3. Click in the search bar and begin typing a vendor’s URL or name (if this is your first time adding a vendor, you might see a list of recommendations based on detected vendors). 
4. Check the box next to the vendor (or vendors) you want to monitor — confirm the URL matches the URL of the vendor you’re intending to add.
5. Repeat steps 3-4 until you’ve selected all of the vendors you want to monitor. 
6. Click Monitor. 

You’re now monitoring the new vendor(s)! We strongly recommend:

• adding vendor attributes
• sending a vendor relationship questionnaire 

💡If you search (step 3) but your vendor doesn’t appear: type the vendor's url and click Attempt to scan. When UpGuard finds the vendor, resume at step 4 or add the vendor without a web presence. 

Monitor a new vendor (without a web presence)

Sometimes you work with vendors without a web presence, you can add those vendors to UpGuard as well. 

1. Click the Vendor Risk icon in UpGuard’s left-hand navigation panel. 
2. Click + Monitor new vendor. 
3. Click in the search bar and begin typing a vendor’s name. 
4. Click Create a vendor with no web presence at the bottom of the modal. 
5. Enter the vendor’s name.
6. Select the vendor’s primary industry from the dropdown. 
7. Click Create new vendor. 

You’re now monitoring the new vendor! However, the vendor needs to return a questionnaire to receive a security rating, which will then activate the risk remediation workflow for your vendor relationship. We strongly recommend adding vendor attributes for each vendor you’ve added.

Vendor attributes

Add vendor attributes (listed in the table below) from the edit vendor page. You’ll automatically land on this page when you start to monitor a single new vendor, but to edit a vendor's attributes any other time:

1. Click the Vendor Risk icon in UpGuard’s left-hand navigation panel. 
2. Search for and select the appropriate vendor (from the Vendors tab).  
3. Click the three dots in the upper-right corner.
4. Click Edit Vendor.  

See also:

• How to remove a vendor

• How to tier your vendors in UpGuard

• How to compare vendors

• How to use portfolios to segment your vendors