Case Study: Large Canadian Media Company Streamlines Vendor Risk Assessment with UpGuard

UpGuard helps a large Canadian media company to create a dedicated vendor assessment process

Large Canadian Media Company, a large Canadian media company with a global portfolio of well-known brands, needed a better way to assess third-party risk. Before 2019, vendor reviews were handled inconsistently and relied on public documents like SOC 2 reports, leaving the company without a structured vendor assessment process, ongoing visibility into vendor security, or confidence in the security posture of newly onboarded vendors.

UpGuard provided the company with Vendor Risk, Breach Risk, Identity Breaches, and a Custom Questionnaire Builder to create a dedicated third-party risk management workflow. With UpGuard, the security team can quickly screen vendors, generate risk reports and security ratings, and review many assessments in about half an hour; it also improved internal vulnerability tracking and remediation. The result was significantly faster vendor onboarding, better visibility across more than 100 vendors, 2,500+ digital assets, and 70+ continuously monitored risk vectors.