Vendor Risk Management

Vendor risk scored.
Questionnaires answered.

Clarito reads incoming security questionnaires through a controls taxonomy, scores each vendor against your accepted posture, and generates response drafts — cutting third-party review cycles from weeks to days. No more manual control mapping. No more rewriting the same encryption policy answers.

~120 hrs avg time per vendor review cycle
47 items typical security questionnaire length
3–6 wk median review-to-approval lag

Observed norms across mid-market enterprise vendor review programs. The manual work is real — Clarito compresses it.

How It Works

From questionnaire to signed-off vendor in days

01

Ingest

Forward questionnaires by email, pull from shared drives, or accept direct vendor uploads. Clarito normalizes CSV, XLSX, PDF, Word, SIG Lite, and CAIQ-style formats into a unified controls view.

02

Score

Each questionnaire item is mapped to your accepted risk posture across NIST CSF, ISO 27001, or SOC 2. Gaps surface with high / medium / low severity ratings. Clean controls auto-match.

03

Respond

Clarito pulls your pre-approved control documentation — encryption policy, IRP, access control procedures — to pre-populate response drafts. Your analyst reviews, edits if needed, and sends. The human review step is always required.

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Built for the security team that reviews vendors at scale

Controls Taxonomy Engine

Maps incoming questionnaire items to canonical controls across NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, and CIS Controls v8. Ambiguous items surface for analyst review rather than being silently assigned.

Risk Score Dashboard

Composite scores (0–100) per vendor with per-domain breakdown: Access Control, Data Handling, Incident Response, Business Continuity. Re-assessment scores stack over time so you can track whether a vendor's posture is improving or drifting.

Response Draft Generation

Pulls from your evidence library to pre-fill responses — encryption policy, IRP, access control documentation. Human review is a required step before any draft is sent. Clarito does not submit responses autonomously.

Accepted Posture Templates

Define minimum thresholds per control domain for each vendor tier — critical, standard, and low-risk. Vendors that clear all thresholds for their tier can be auto-approved. Those that don't are routed to analyst review with flagged gaps.

Audit Trail

Every ingestion, scoring run, draft generation, and approval decision is logged with a UTC timestamp and the reviewing analyst's identity. The log is append-only and cannot be edited. Export as PDF or CSV for regulator or internal audit use.

Workflow Integration

Push vendor approval decisions to ServiceNow GRC, create Jira remediation tickets for open gaps, or post summaries to Slack. Risk scores can sync as ServiceNow CI attributes. Available on Professional and Enterprise plans.

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Customer Evidence

How security teams use Clarito

We were spending 6 weeks on every new vendor — cross-referencing their questionnaire answers against our policy documents manually. Clarito collapsed that to a few days of actual review.

Mara Osei

Information Security Manager — Regional financial services firm

The response drafts saved us from the worst part: rewriting the same answer about our encryption policy for the twelfth vendor this quarter.

Dario Ferreira

Vendor Risk Analyst — Mid-market healthcare operations company

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Cut your next vendor review to days

Request access and a member of our team will walk through your first questionnaire import with you. No generic onboarding sequence — one of the four of us sets it up alongside you.

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