Continuous Monitoring

Overview

Continuous Monitoring in VISO TRUST provides real-time oversight of your vendors’ security posture between formal assessments. Instead of relying only on periodic questionnaires or annual reviews, Continuous Monitoring ensures you always have an up-to-date view of vendor risk.

This capability is designed to help risk teams keep pace with the speed of business and align with regulatory expectations for ongoing vendor oversight.

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How it works

Continuous Monitoring automatically collects and surfaces new risk information from a wide range of sources, including open-source artifacts, vendor certifications, compliance attestations, privacy statements, public advisories, and news updates.

Findings are displayed in a dedicated Monitoring tab for each vendor relationship. This view refreshes on an hourly basis, ensuring you always see the latest updates. You can also configure notifications to alert stakeholders when significant changes occur.

What kinds of changes does it detect?

Continuous Monitoring helps you detect:

• Expired or updated vendor certifications
• Newly published compliance artifacts or privacy statements
• Announcements or advisories that affect vendor security posture
• Publicly reported incidents or breaches connected to a vendor

By surfacing these changes automatically, you can identify emerging risks quickly and take action before they impact your business.

Relationship to assessments

Continuous Monitoring does not replace formal assessments. Instead, it complements them. Assessments remain the structured, evidence-based evaluation of a vendor’s security posture. Continuous Monitoring fills the gap between assessments by providing ongoing updates, so you are never caught off guard by changes that happen after an assessment is complete.

Why it matters

Continuous Monitoring supports a more proactive third-party risk management program. It enables earlier detection of issues, faster remediation, and better audit readiness by showing that your organization maintains continuous oversight of vendor risks. This approach helps demonstrate compliance with evolving regulations and industry standards that emphasize real-time monitoring over point-in-time reviews.