Third-Party Risk & AI Threat Hunting Advisory
Hands-on expertise to build, fix, or accelerate your third-party and AI risk program — not a slide deck, but a working framework.
Most third-party risk programs don't fail from lack of effort — they fail because they're built on templates that don't match the organization's actual vendor landscape, regulatory exposure, or AI adoption curve. Gregory Rasner has spent 25+ years building and running these programs from the inside, including leading a 20+ person third-party risk team at Truist. Advisory engagements bring that operating experience directly to your team.
What We Do
- Third-Party Risk Program Design — Build or overhaul a TPRM framework from the ground up: vendor tiering, assessment methodology, contract language, and ongoing monitoring cadence.
- AI & Vendor Risk Assessment — Evaluate the risk your AI-enabled vendors and partners introduce, and build the governance framework to manage it before it becomes an incident.
- Regulatory Readiness — Get audit- and exam-ready for third-party risk expectations from regulators, using the same rigor applied at a top-15 US bank.
- Program Remediation — Called in after a gap is found (an audit finding, a near-miss, a failed exam) to fix the program fast and demonstrate the fix holds.
How an Engagement Works
- Discovery & Assessment — We evaluate your current program, vendors, and risk exposure against regulatory expectations.
- Custom Framework — A tailored risk tiering, AI risk, or governance framework built for your environment — not a template.
- Implementation Support — Hands-on help putting the framework to work across your team, vendors, and contracts.
- Measurable Outcome — Results tracked against your original goals — compliance, risk reduction, or team capability.
Managed Risk Services
We don't just advise your program — we run it
Not every organization has the budget or bandwidth to build a full third-party risk function in-house. Third Party Threat Hunting can operate as your outsourced TPRM program or supply chain risk team — senior-level expertise running your program day-to-day, without the cost or delay of a full internal hire.
Who this is for:
- Companies that need a mature TPRM function but aren't ready to build a full internal team
- Organizations facing a regulatory exam or audit deadline with no dedicated TPRM resource in place
- Teams whose TPRM lead just left, with no coverage in the gap
- Existing small TPRM/security teams that need senior expertise added without adding headcount
What a managed engagement covers:
- Vendor risk assessments and onboarding reviews
- Risk tiering and prioritization frameworks
- Ongoing vendor monitoring and re-assessment cycles
- Questionnaire and evidence management
- Contract risk language review and vendor remediation tracking
- AI and shadow AI vendor risk oversight
- Regulatory exam and audit support
- Executive and board-level risk reporting
- Built on the same TPCRA-certified methodology and published frameworks behind Gregory's books and training
Engagement models:
- Fully managed — Third Party Threat Hunting (TPTH) runs your TPRM/supply chain risk function end-to-end
- Augmented — TPTH embeds alongside your existing team to add senior capacity
- Interim / bridge — coverage during a transition, leadership gap, or while you hire permanently
Every managed engagement is scoped to your program's size and maturity. Contact us to talk through what coverage looks like for your team: greg@thirdpartythreathunting.com · 919-592-7757
Virtual leadership roles
Not every organization needs — or can justify — a full-time Chief Risk Officer, CISO, or Chief Privacy Officer on payroll. A virtual leadership engagement puts that expertise in the room at the cadence your organization actually needs, backed by the same third-party risk and AI governance practice behind everything else on this page.
vCRO — Virtual Chief Risk Officer
Program-level ownership of third-party and enterprise risk without the full-time headcount: risk appetite and tiering frameworks, vendor risk program governance, board and audit-committee reporting, and regulatory exam readiness — run by someone who has built these programs before, not just advised on them.
vCISO — Virtual Chief Information Security Officer
Security program leadership for organizations between CISOs, scaling past ad hoc security management, or needing executive-level coverage on a fractional basis: security strategy and roadmap, policy and control ownership, incident response leadership, and the same board-level reporting your auditors and directors expect from a permanent hire.
vCPO — Virtual Chief Privacy Officer
Privacy program ownership for organizations facing growing data-protection obligations without a dedicated executive to own them: privacy program governance, data-mapping and processing-activity oversight, breach-notification readiness, regulatory correspondence (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, state and sector-specific privacy law), and vendor data-sharing risk — a natural extension of a third-party risk practice, since most privacy exposure runs through vendors in the first place.
Who this is for
- Organizations without a CRO, CISO, or CPO today, and not yet ready to hire one full-time
- Companies backfilling a leadership gap during a search or transition
- Boards and audit committees that need independent, credentialed risk reporting
- Organizations under regulatory or contractual pressure to show named executive risk, security, or privacy ownership
What a virtual leadership engagement covers
- Risk, security, or privacy program strategy, ownership, and governance
- Board, audit-committee, and executive reporting on a regular cadence
- Policy, framework, and control ownership — not just recommendations
- Regulatory exam and audit support, represented as your organization's named executive
- Vendor and third-party risk oversight (vCRO), security program oversight (vCISO), or privacy program oversight (vCPO)
- Incident and crisis leadership when it counts
Engagement models
- Ongoing fractional — a set weekly or bi-weekly cadence for continuous executive coverage
- Interim / bridge — full leadership coverage while you search for a permanent hire
- Project-based — leadership through a specific initiative: an audit, a regulatory exam, a program build-out
