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GARTNER® HYPE CYCLE™ FOR CYBER-RISK MANAGEMENT REPORT

# Third-party risk has become a compliance requirement. Most programs weren't built for it.

### What was once handled by the security team is showing up in compliance reviews, audit findings, and regulatory inquiries.

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### Access the complimentary report to see what obstacles your peers are navigating

Compliance programs were designed to govern what happens inside your organization. But the frameworks auditors use today — SOC 2®, ISO 27001, NIS2, and others — now extend that scope to the vendors and third parties your business depends on. The challenge for compliance program owners is specific: vendor risk processes have to be documented, repeatable, and audit-ready, not just managed. Point-in-time questionnaires and manual tracking don't produce the kind of continuous, verifiable evidence modern compliance requirements demand. And getting that evidence from vendors is harder than it sounds.

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*"Business sponsors don’t think TPCRM is their job. Unless socialized otherwise, the business thinks it is cyber's job to manage risk. Roughly 40% of business sponsors accept third-party risk outside of tolerance despite cybersecurity advice otherwise."*

— Gartner, Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management, 2026, 27 April 2026

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As vendor ecosystems grow and supply chain complexity increases, the gap between how organizations currently manage third-party risk and what regulators and auditors expect is widening.

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We believe the *2026 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Cyber-Risk Management* maps where third-party cyber risk management stands today, which approaches are mature enough to act on now, and how organizations are building programs that hold up under audit.

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Gartner, Hype Cycle for Cyber-Risk Management, 2026, Deepti Gopal, Pedro Pablo Perea de Duenas, 27 April 2026. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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