Risk-based vendor oversight for banks and credit unions.
Your institution depends on third parties. Know which ones can withstand disruption. Have the evidence ready.
Continuity Strength gives banks and credit unions a practical way to assess and monitor the third parties their operations depend on. Identify and tier important vendors, assess operational resilience and cyber risk, identify gaps, manage remediation, maintain ongoing oversight, and export the evidence management, auditors, regulators, and other reviewers ask to see.
From vendor criticality through ongoing monitoring and evidence.
Third-party risk management requires greater attention to relationships that present greater risk. Continuity Strength gives banks and credit unions a structured way to focus oversight on the third parties that matter most and maintain the evidence supporting that oversight.
Identify & Prioritize
Focus oversight where the risk warrants it. Maintain the third-party inventory and use criticality and risk to determine which relationships require deeper assessment and monitoring.
Assess
Evaluate risk and resilience. Assess operational resilience, business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness, cyber risk, dependencies, and supporting evidence.
Remediate
Address identified weaknesses. Document gaps, establish corrective actions, and track remediation through completion.
Monitor
Maintain ongoing oversight. Reassess important third parties and maintain current information as services, risks, evidence, and remediation status change.
Report
Maintain evidence of oversight. Keep assessment results, findings, remediation, and monitoring history organized for management, boards, auditors, regulators, and internal risk teams.
Assess the risks that can affect your institution's operations.
For important third parties, Continuity Strength helps banks and credit unions assess and maintain evidence across key areas of third-party risk.
Operational Resilience
Assess business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness, recovery capabilities, operational dependencies, testing evidence, identified gaps, and remediation.
System & Information Security
Assess third-party cyber risk and resilience, identify exposures, and maintain evidence of findings and remediation.
Regulatory Compliance
Maintain structured evidence of third-party assessment, identified issues, remediation, and ongoing oversight to support your institution's compliance and risk-management processes.
Documentation exists. Does it demonstrate resilience?
Third-party documentation does not by itself demonstrate that an important vendor can continue supporting your institution through disruption. Continuity Strength helps assess the preparedness behind the documentation.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Assess continuity and recovery preparedness, testing, supporting evidence, and whether recovery capabilities are appropriate for the services the third party supports.
Operational Dependencies
Identify dependencies and weaknesses that could affect the third party's ability to continue supporting your institution.
Cyber Resilience
Assess cyber risk and resilience alongside operational continuity to identify exposures that could affect service delivery.
Important vendor. Limited evidence.
Large technology providers may provide extensive independent assurance, testing, and resilience documentation. Many mid-market and smaller third parties do not.
The absence of an enterprise assurance package does not mean the relationship is unimportant.
When Evidence Is Incomplete
Use a structured assessment to determine what resilience capabilities and evidence exist, identify what is missing, and determine what requires additional attention.
Continuity Strength
Assess the third party's operational resilience, identify gaps, track remediation, and maintain an ongoing record of oversight without relying solely on the vendor to provide an enterprise-level assurance package.
Assessment completed. Can you show what happened next?
An assessment is only part of third-party oversight. Continuity Strength keeps findings, remediation, monitoring, and supporting evidence organized and current so you can demonstrate how identified risks are being managed over time.
Know whether your important third parties are resilient. Have the evidence ready when someone asks.
Continuity Strength helps banks and credit unions focus oversight where the risk warrants it, assess third-party operational resilience, identify gaps, manage remediation, maintain ongoing oversight, and keep the evidence management, boards, auditors, regulators, and internal risk teams need.