LIVE WEBINAR: SUPPLY CHAIN RISK

Are Your Vendor Contracts Secretly Sabotaging Your Cybersecurity?

You have invested in modern security tooling and automated supply chain risk monitoring. So why can’t your team request a vendor to fix a known deficiency?

Join Elasticito to learn how to turn vendor contracts from passive paperwork into active cyber defence.

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  • Wednesday 18 November 2026
  • 45 minutes plus Q&A
  • Online, live on Zoom
  • Free to attend
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The uncomfortable truth

Annual questionnaires and static legal clauses will not satisfy regulators, insurers or your board anymore. If your vendor contracts do not explicitly mandate timeless remediation of weaknesses and vulnerabilities, your modern tech stack is a cyber risk liability.

Key Takeaways

Three things you can use the next working day.

01

The Supply Chain Risk Disconnect

Why advanced security tooling fails when it sits on top of static, legacy vendor contracts.

02

The Continuous Monitoring Mandate

Where point-in-time questionnaires fall short of current regulatory and insurance standards.

03

Active Cyber Defence

Practical contract wording that turns a vendor agreement from filing-cabinet formality into a security asset.

Why This Matters Now

Third-party involvement in breaches doubled in a single year.

Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report put third-party involvement at 30% of breaches, twice the share it reported the year before.

Source: Verizon DBIR 2025

Audit and access rights are now written into law.

Under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act, contracts with ICT providers must set out access, inspection and audit rights. The clause is no longer optional boilerplate.

Source: Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, Article 30

A yearly questionnaire covers about 0.3% of the year.

One assessment gives you a single day of assurance out of 365. Attackers do not wait for your renewal cycle, and neither do your vendors’ certificates, ports and exposed services.

Source: Elasticito

Questions About The Session

Security leaders who own third-party risk, and the practitioners who run the assessments. If you sit between the security team and the legal team, this hour is aimed squarely at you.

No. The session is about contract wording and monitoring practice. We will show tooling only where it makes a point clearer, and we will say so when we do.

Please do. The material works best when security and legal watch it together, because the change we are describing needs both signatures.

Yes. Register and we will send you the recording and the slides afterwards, whether or not you make it on the day.

Yes. The last part of the session is live Q&A, and you can submit a question when you register if you would rather ask it in advance.

Bring One Contract With You

Pick the supplier who touches your customer data. By the end of the hour you will know which clause to change first.

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