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WEBINAR

Move faster on third-party risk with AI-powered vendor assurance.

Thursday 27 August 2026 | 11:00am-12:00pm AEST/BST/EDT


See how to assess vendors faster, reduce manual information collection and review, and maintain the evidence, accountability and visibility needed to support confident third-party risk decisions.

Third-party risk is becoming more complex, but assurance doesn't have to.

Third-party risk teams are being asked to assess more vendors, respond to growing cyber and AI-related exposure, and meet higher expectations from executives, boards, auditors and regulators. Resources are not always growing at the same pace.

In this demo-led webinar, Protecht's Damien Stevens and VISO TRUST's Paul Valente show how, with Protecht and VISO TRUST, teams can move beyond questionnaires, spreadsheets and email chasing to build faster, AI-powered and more defensible third-party risk oversight. 

Find out:
  • Why growing vendor volumes and cyber exposure are putting manual assurance under strain
  • Where vendor intake, evidence collection, approvals and follow-up commonly break down
  • How AI-assisted assessment can accelerate evidence review, risk rating and vendor decisions
  • How to connect findings, actions, and third and fourth-party exposure over time

 

See what a scalable, connected vendor assurance operating model integrated with your GRC program looks like in practice.

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“AI is the key to unlocking the information that has always been there, but impossible to process at scale.”

– Paul Valente, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer, VISO  

Manual vendor review is reaching its limit. 

More vendors do not just mean more questionnaires. They create more relationships to classify, evidence to review, approvals to coordinate, actions to track and changes to monitor.

When these activities sit across inboxes, spreadsheets and standalone tools, teams lose time and context. Decisions take longer. Overdue reviews are harder to spot. Findings can remain open without clear ownership, while supporting evidence becomes difficult to retrieve when an executive, auditor or regulator asks for it.

Automating a questionnaire addresses only part of the problem. Effective vendor assurance connects intake, assessment, evidence, decisions, remediation and monitoring within one operating model.

Through two practical scenarios, this webinar demonstrates how teams can move from vendor intake to informed risk actions, then from that decision to ongoing oversight.

Save time and money with connected vendor risk

Protecht and VISO TRUST combine connected vendor risk workflows with AI-powered assurance, bringing vendor intake, evidence review, assessment and follow-up into one operating model.

Built to reduce manual due diligence effort, the solution delivers:

  • 30-second AI-assisted assessments

  • 17 hours saved per assessment, on average

  • 90% less due diligence time

  • 98% vendor response rates

  • 66% reduction in total TPRM labour

Where should the next control dollar go?  

Control libraries keep growing. Testing activity keeps expanding. Assurance expectations keep rising.

But one question often remains difficult to answer: which controls are actually worth the time, cost and effort?

The problem is not usually a lack of controls. It is the lack of a clear way to compare their value.

At the same time, expectations are rising. Businesses are under pressure to demonstrate that controls are effective, proportionate and aligned to business objectives. More controls do not automatically mean better risk management. In some cases, they create duplication, fatigue and false comfort.

This webinar explores how you can think more clearly about control value, control investment and the role of controls in achieving better business outcomes.

 

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Your presenters

Damien Stevens

Damien Stevens

Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Protecht

Damien leads Protecht’s global product vision, design and go-to-market strategy.

Drawing on extensive experience in B2B software, financial services, data and analytics, he focuses on building practical products that help risk teams use AI responsibly, connect information and make better-supported decisions.

Paul Valente

Paul Valente

Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer, VISO TRUST

Paul Valente is Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer at VISO TRUST, a Protecht company. Paul works with customers, product teams and the global CISO community to advance AI-powered third- and fourth-party risk management.

As a former CISO with more than 25 years of cybersecurity experience, he brings a practical understanding of the assurance, evidence and oversight challenges facing vendor risk and security teams.

Comparing your options

Move from reactive, spreadsheet-based compliance to a connected, automated governance system - ready for the Aged Care Act 2024.

 

Capabilities   Manual approach using spreadsheets   Protecht

Incident & SIRS management

 

   Incidents tracked manually, inconsistent categorisation, limited visibility, and no automated escalation.   Real-time logging and automated escalation aligned to SIRS, with full audit trails and reporting.

Compliance & governance reporting

 

   Separate spreadsheets per site; time-consuming updates; high audit risk.   Centralised dashboards and reports showing compliance across all facilities, in real time.

Risk & quality oversight

 

   Disconnected risk registers make trend analysis and board reporting difficult.   Integrated risk framework connecting controls, incidents, and actions to deliver organisation-wide visibility.

Audit readiness

 

   Manual evidence gathering across documents and emails - error-prone and stressful.   Pre-configured, auditable registers with one-click reporting and timestamped compliance evidence.

Workflow & accountability

 

   No clear ownership or task tracking; actions often lost in email.   Automated workflows with defined responsibilities, due dates, and escalation paths.

Data security & integrity

 

   Version control issues and risk of accidental data loss or breaches.   Secure, cloud-hosted platform with role-based access, encryption, and complete audit logs.

Your partner for connected vendor risk oversight.

Protecht helps you manage vendor risk as part of a connected risk and assurance ecosystem, rather than as a standalone assessment exercise.  

Move faster and maintain a clearer view of vendor exposure with connected workflows and AI-powered assurance: 

  • Manage intake, tiering, due diligence, assessment, monitoring, renewal and offboarding
  • Use AI-assisted assessments, smart summaries and evidence validation to support explainable risk ratings
  • Keep assurance documents, decisions, findings, actions and approvals together
  • Connect vendor exposure with enterprise risk, controls, obligations, incidents, cyber and resilience
  

 

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