Case Study: a higher education system reduces third-party cyber risk with SecurityScorecard

Higher Education System cuts vendor review time from 1 hour to 10 minutes with SecurityScorecard

A higher education system, a major Tier 1 research institution, faced the challenge of protecting its valuable research data from supply chain breaches. Its expansive and collaborative attack surface, combined with a time-consuming and ineffective manual vendor review process, created significant security risks. The institution turned to SecurityScorecard's Third-Party Cyber Risk Management and Security Questionnaires services to address this challenge.

By implementing SecurityScorecard, the university streamlined its vendor assessment process. The solution automated security questionnaires and validated vendor responses against real-time attack surface data. This allowed SecurityScorecard to help the security team reduce the time spent per vendor review from one hour to just ten minutes, significantly increasing productivity while reducing the risk of third-party data breaches and ensuring continued adherence to critical research funding requirements.