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Third-Party Risk Management Case Study | Financial Institution

A large, regulated financial institution operating across multiple business lines and digital channels partnered with ASPIA to modernize its Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) program.

With an expanding vendor ecosystem and increasing regulatory scrutiny, the organization faced challenges in maintaining centralized vendor risk visibility, ensuring audit readiness, and streamlining onboarding workflows.

ASPIA implemented a centralized, automated Vendor Risk Management (VRM) platform to strengthen governance, improve compliance oversight, and reduce operational inefficiencies.

Financial Services – Regulated Banking Environment

Key regulatory pressure

  • Periodic vendor risk assessments
  • Documented audit trails
  • Regulatory reporting requirements

Core Challenges in Third-Party Risk Management

Lack of centralized visibility

  • Vendor risk assessments scattered
  • Fragmented compliance documentation
  • Disconnected risk ratings
  • No consolidated ownership visibility
Data scattered across spreadsheets, limiting real-time oversight.

Regulatory & compliance pressure

  • Periodic vendor risk assessments
  • Documented audit trails
  • Regulatory reporting requirements
  • Remediation & exception tracking
Manual processes hindered audit readiness.

Manual & time-intensive processes

  • Delayed vendor onboarding approvals
  • Inconsistent risk scoring
  • Limited accountability
  • High operational effort

ASPIA solution: centralized TPRM platform

ASPIAs deployed its integrated Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) module within the ASPIA GRC platform.

⚙️ Automated assessments

  • Configurable vendor risk assessment templates
  • Regulatory-aligned risk scoring logic
  • Automated review & approval workflows
  • SLA tracking and escalation alerts

📁 Centralized repository

  • Vendor profiles and classifications
  • Risk ratings and inherent risk levels
  • Compliance documents & certifications
  • Assessment history and audit logs

📊 Real-time dashboards

  • Role-based dashboards
  • Open vendor risk tracking
  • Collaborative review workflows
  • Audit-ready reporting

Business impact & measurable results

45%
Reduction in vendor onboarding timelines
Automated workflows significantly reduced delays.

25%
Reduction in operational costs
Automation minimized manual effort.

Improved Compliance

  • Structured vendor risk lifecycle documentation
  • Enhanced evidence management
  • Centralized exception tracking
  • Stronger regulatory reporting

Why this matters

In highly regulated industries such as banking and financial services, Third-Party Risk Management software is critical for maintaining compliance, operational resilience, and governance transparency.

By centralizing vendor governance and automating risk workflows, ASPIA helped the client transition from reactive monitoring to proactive third-party risk governance.

Looking to strengthen your Third-Party Risk Management program?

ASPIA’s TPRM platform helps regulated institutions:

Automate vendor risk assessments
Maintain regulatory‑compliant audit trails
Improve onboarding efficiency
Gain real‑time third‑party risk visibility

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Security workflow management in a large enterprise relies heavily on a variety of IT systems, and security teams to support its operations. To protect these assets, the company maintains a team of cybersecurity analysts who are responsible for orchestrating, monitoring, and responding to security alerts and incidents. However, as the volume and complexity of threats have increased, the company has struggled to keep up with the volume of security assessments, alerts, and incidents, leading to delays in response and missed opportunities to prevent or mitigate attacks.

To address these challenges, the organization decided to implement ASPIA. ASPIA is designed to automate many of the manual tasks, simplify the workflows, and integrate with the company’s existing security tools and processes.

Challenges:

Before implementing ASPIA, the organization faced several challenges in managing its cybersecurity operations:

  • Huge amount of Manual effort:
    The amount of manual effort required by the security team to manage the workflows caused delays in response and missed opportunities to prevent or mitigate attacks.
  • Distributed systems and tools:
    Adding to the fatigue of manual efforts security teams also are required to manage all the systems and tools required for the orchestration and management of security workflows, and no platform is available to use all tools from one dashboard.
  • Poor security insights:
    Since the existing processes were complex and time-consuming the organizations often lacked security insights and were not able to get real-time updates on their security.

 

Solutions:

To address these challenges, ASPIA was chosen as a solution provider, which included the following capabilities:

  • Automation of incident response tasks:
    ASPIA automates many of the manual tasks involved in managing the security workflows, such as gathering and analyzing evidence, preparing reports, listing affected resources, and deploying remediation measures. This allows the security team to respond to threats more quickly and effectively.
  • Integration with existing security tools and processes:
    The ASPIA integrates with the company’s existing security tools and processes, allowing the security team to manage and respond to incidents from a single interface.
  • Granular insights:
    ASPIA analyzes and prioritizes vulnerabilities and threats based on their potential impact. With ASPIA analysis organization was able to visualize the granular insights about their security posture. This helped the security team to focus on the most important threats and to respond to incidents more efficiently.
Results:

 

As a result of implementing ASPIA, the organization has seen significant improvements in its cybersecurity operations:

  • The automation of manual tasks has allowed the security team to respond to threats more quickly and with greater accuracy. This has helped to prevent or mitigate a number of attacks and to reduce the number of false positives.
  • By automating many manual tasks and providing a unified platform. ASPIA has freed up time for the security team to focus on more strategic tasks. This has resulted in an overall increase in productivity and effectiveness.
  • ASPIA has helped the organization improve its security posture by automating, orchestrating, and simplifying the security workflows effectively.

 

Conclusion:

The implementation of ASPIA has been a major success for the organization. By automating many of the manual tasks, orchestrating the security workflows, and receiving granular insights. The organization has been able to improve its overall security posture. ASPIA offers cost-effective innovative cybersecurity solutions and services to enterprise customers in order to achieve matured security state. With ASPIA organizations can achieve a mature security state with the orchestration and automation of their security workflows.

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A multinational corporation with operations in banking, finance, and insurance domain. As a large and complex organization, the organization has to adhere to a variety of regulatory requirements and manage various risks across its operations.

CHALLENGES

Prior to implementing ASPIA, the company struggled to effectively manage its GRC processes due to the following challenges:

  • Lack of visibility:
    Different business units used different systems and processes to manage GRC-related information, making it difficult to get a complete and accurate view of the company’s GRC posture.
  • Inefficient processes:
    Manual and decentralized processes made it time-consuming and error-prone to collect, review, and report on GRC-related data.
  • Limited collaboration:
    GRC teams across different business units had limited visibility and collaboration, leading to duplication of efforts and a lack of consistency.

 

SOLUTION

The organization implemented ASPIA to centralize and automate its GRC processes. The solution provided the following benefits:

  • A single platform for managing all GRC-related information: ASPIA provided a centralized repository for storing and managing all GRC-related data, such as policies, procedures, risks, controls, and compliance requirements. This made it easier to get a complete and accurate view of the company’s GRC posture and identify potential gaps.
  • Automated workflows for collecting, reviewing, and reporting on GRC data: ASPIA provided customizable workflows for collecting and reviewing GRC-related data, as well as automated reporting capabilities. This streamlined and accelerated the GRC processes and reduced the risk of errors.
  • Collaboration and communication tools: ASPIA provided tools for GRC teams to collaborate and communicate effectively, such as discussion forums, document sharing, and notification alerts. This facilitated the sharing of best practices and the coordination of GRC efforts across different business units.

 

RESULTS

Since implementing the ASPIA, the organization has achieved the following benefits:

  • Improved visibility and control: The centralized repository and automated GRC workflows provided by ASPIA have given better visibility and control over the organization’s posture. This has enabled the company to identify and address potential gaps and risks in a timely manner.
  • Increased efficiency: The automation of GRC processes has reduced the time and effort required to collect, review, and report on GRC-related data, freeing up resources for more strategic tasks.
  • Enhanced collaboration and consistency: The collaboration and communication tools provided by ASPIA have improved the sharing of best practices and the coordination of GRC efforts across different business units, resulting in greater consistency and effectiveness.

CONCLUSION

An integrated risk management and compliance solution from ASPIA effectively aligns with the specific complexity level, commercial potential, and regulatory needs of an organization. The implementation of ASPIA has allowed the organization to streamline and optimize its GRC processes, improving visibility, control, efficiency, and collaboration. As a result, the company has been able to better manage its regulatory requirements and risks, enabling it to focus on driving growth and innovation.

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