Let’s be honest: most third-party risk programs are blind in all the places that matter. There! Someone finally said it.

For years, security teams have tried to manage supplier risk with spreadsheets, questionnaires, and generic scores. Vendor inventories looked neat on paper. CVSS numbers looked scientific. External ratings looked reassuring. But the internet did not get the memo...  

Your real digital ecosystem spills over into domains you didn’t know existed, APIs nobody documented, shadow AI tools people plug in, forgotten cloud buckets, and fourth-party connections quietly humming in the background. These invisible links are exactly what attackers go after. The quiet stuff. The unlisted stuff. The stuff no one takes ownership of.

That is why we built ThingsRecon Supply Chain Intelligence. It is the first platform that gives every supplier a risk rating based on your actual digital relationship, not some arbitrary industry score.

One of our customers recently put it better than we ever could:

“ThingsRecon gives us an x-ray of the company’s digital connected ecosystem. Something I have never seen before.”

What makes our approach different

We map every supplier link by how close it sits to your critical systems. We call this Digital Proximity (Patent Pending). In plain language: we help you find the things that could actually break your business first.

A high severity vulnerability is meaningless without context. A low vendor score is meaningless without proximity. A supposedly minor flaw on a payments provider or exposed API touching production can be catastrophic, whereas a critical CVE on a forgotten test environment may not matter at all.

Supply Chain Intelligence replaces lists and guesswork with a living, continuously updated map of exposure. It discovers, enriches, and ranks risk based on real business impact.

Another customer told us exactly what they had been searching for:

“Finally, a solution that helps me prioritize my top 200 suppliers based on data and evidence.”

The five capabilities that make this possible

1. Deep, agentless discovery
   We map domains, APIs, certificates, scripts, web apps, and supplier infrastructure, including shadow and offboarded suppliers. Everything externally connected to you is surfaced. No installation required.
2. Geo-located, non-intrusive scanning
   Forty global scanning locations powered by more than one hundred hygiene indicators. You see the full extent of your footprint, even across borders and regions.
3. AI-driven business intelligence
   Every technical signal is enriched with financial, geopolitical, compliance and threat intelligence so your findings turn into a narrative your board understands.
4. Digital Proximity (Patent Pending)
   Our core innovation. Suppliers are ranked by how directly their risk touches your crown jewels. This cuts noise and identifies the handful of exposures that matter right now.
5. Continuous monitoring
   Everything stays fresh. Every change is tracked. Every risk is validated as your ecosystem evolves.

All of this arrives as a continuously updated, evidence-backed feed.

What this means for security teams

First, it means regulatory compliance support, because DORA and NIS2 are about to expose a big industry secret: most third-party risk tools cannot tell you what actually touches your business. They hand out generic scores, freeze risks in time, and leave teams scrambling when regulators ask for real evidence.

Supply Chain Intelligence does the opposite.

• We give you continuous discovery, not static lists.

• We show real supplier connections, not assumptions.

• We rank exposure by Digital Proximity, not a one-size-fits-all score.

This is exactly what cyber regulations like DORA and NIS2 expect: ongoing oversight, proof of dependency mapping, and clear prioritization of the suppliers that could genuinely impact critical services.

Furthermore, this is a shift in how risk teams work. Because discovery now feeds judgement. Evidence now drives decisions. Prioritization now protects time and focus.

Here is what that looks like in practice:

• Third-party risk teams get defensible, evidence-based supplier prioritisation and can scale assessments far beyond questionnaires.

• Boards and executives get a clear business view, backed by real proof of managed exposure.

• MSSPs and partners can turn this into a high-value operational service without deploying heavy tools.

• M&A and due diligence teams see inherited third-party risks before integration surprises appear.

• GRC teams get continuous, auditable proof of vendor oversight aligned with NIS2, DORA and SEC.

Just weeks ago, we were selected to deliver cyber exposure intelligence to Albania’s national CNI program. A national scale proof that this approach delivers value in places where failure is not an option. Conversations with governments, MSSPs, and enterprise teams have only confirmed one thing: the industry is ready for a more precise and evidence-driven way to manage digital supply chain risk.

I am excited because this momentum fuels everything that comes next. More discovery depth, faster evidence pipelines, and more tools that turn signals into action. Most importantly, it helps more teams move from guesswork to certainty.

Try it for yourself

If you want to see how our method works, request a free Proximity Snapshot. We run a lightweight, agentless scan on one domain and deliver the exact insights the platform produces: findings, proximity context, and prioritized recommendations. A short, evidence-based report you can act on.

You can also take the interactive product tour or join our live webinar where Steph and I will walk you through the platform.

Thank you for joining us on this journey. I cannot wait to see what you discover.

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