Continuous Monitoring
Your vendors change constantly. Your visibility should too.
Magnitude watches every vendor in your portfolio every day, matching new security advisories, breach disclosures, and regulatory actions against your roster the moment they appear. The 364-day blind spot between annual questionnaire cycles closes to hours.
Annual vs. Continuous
What changes when you stop relying on the questionnaire
Point-in-time assessments and continuous monitoring are not complementary approaches. They answer fundamentally different questions.
| Capability | Annual Questionnaire | Magnitude |
|---|---|---|
| Risk visibility lag | Up to 12 months | Hours to days |
| Coverage trigger | Scheduled calendar cycle | Event-driven, daily |
| Data source | Vendor self-reporting | Third-party intelligence feeds |
| Subsidiary coverage | Requires manual scoping | Automatic entity resolution |
| Team effort per vendor | 4-8 hours review cycle | Alert-driven, 15-30 min response |
| Audit documentation | Static PDF spreadsheet | Timestamped alert log export |
How It Works
From raw signal to team action in four steps
Magnitude runs this cycle every day for every vendor in your portfolio, without any manual trigger from your team.
Risk Categories
The four risk domains Magnitude tracks for every vendor
Each category draws from different signal sources and correlates to different response actions for your security and procurement teams.
Cybersecurity Risk
CVEs against software and services your vendors operate, published security bulletins, unpatched vulnerability disclosures, and dark-web credential exposure indicators. Updated within hours of new CVE publication.
Compliance and Regulatory
Enforcement actions, consent orders, and compliance filings from federal and state regulators. Relevant for vendors operating in financial services, healthcare, and government contracting supply chains.
Operational Risk
Workforce reduction news, datacenter or service outage disclosures, major customer losses, and leadership departures that correlate with elevated operational instability in the following 90 to 180 days.
Data Breach Exposure
HHS breach portal, state AG breach filings, SEC 8-K cybersecurity disclosures, and correlated credential exposure indicators. Breach alerts include the category of data involved and the approximate exposure scope when disclosed.
Replace annual snapshots with a live view of your vendor portfolio risk
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