Reputation Risk
Assessment
Understand your third party’s operating processes to verify they’re protecting their reputation and your own reputation.
Reputation risk occurs when negative publicity regarding your organization's business practices is reported on, often leading to declining consumer trust and negative association. Your organization's reputation and customer trust are normally impacted by a perceived or real breach or inability to conduct business to consumer expectations.
We understand each vendor is different and the risks posed are unique or more significant in specific areas. With Venminder’s Reputation Risk Assessment, we analyze five different groups of vendors, which means there are five versions of our Reputation Risk Analysis service bringing aspects from financial health, consumer complaints, information security and more areas of risk, all wrapped up into one summarized analysis. We make sure to cover all the bases.
Key Benefits
A thorough review of the vendor’s operations
You’ll receive a holistic, expert review om several areas of your vendor’s operations and identification of alarming findings that may impact your reputation.
Get a fully customized assessment based on the vendor type
You won’t need to do the time-consuming back and forth with vendors to gather required data and you’ll receive documented concerns based on 5 vendor types and access levels.
Be confident in risk results
See both the big picture and quickly drill down to the topics and specific items you are most concerned with and identify action items.
What It Includes
Outsourcing Venminder's Reputation Risk Assessment to Venminder means:
- We'll gather the required data for you
- You'll receive reputation risk concerns based on 5 vendor types and access levels:
- Critical Vendors
- Critical Third and Fourth Parties Interacting with Non-Public Information (NPI)
- Vendors with Direct Customer Communication
- Non-Tech Vendors with NPI Access
- Vendors with Indirect NPI Access
- Venminder will review the following areas on each vendor and provide a synopsis of findings as well as recommended next steps, making the Reputation Risk Assessment all-inclusive:
- Policies and Procedures
- Vendor Vetting
- Financial Health
- Information Security
- Regulatory Compliance and Operations
- SOC Report
- On the final pages of the assessment a table outlines which areas are looked at for each group of vendors with a quick snapshot of pass or fail. At a glance, you’ll know if there are key risks posed to your organization that may impact reputation.
Why It's Important
Remember, a vendor’s operational failures could greatly impact your organization’s reputation if their systems are disrupted for a significant period of time. It’s critical to do your due diligence and know of faulty processes.
Download a Sample
Reputation Risk Assessment Sample
Reputation risk occurs when negative publicity regarding an organization's business practices leads to a loss of revenue or litigation. Organizations are responsible for risks associated with the activities of their third parties. See a sample of what our analysts review and report on that can help identify possible reputation risk weaknesses.
Educational Resources

Infographics
Reputation Risk and Your Company's Third Parties
How to mitigate reputation risk, the impact a vendor can have on your reputation, which vendors pose a reputational risk and 5 tactics to manage third party reputational risk.

Infographics
How to Do Vendor Due Diligence Properly
Guide for initial and ongoing due diligence that covers how to do it properly, benefits, items to request, understanding your vendor's regulatory risk impact and more.

Infographics
Vendor Complaints and Why You Should Care
Customer complaints are a fact of life in the social media world we live in today. See why you need to monitor your vendor's complaints as a critical part of third party risk management.

Infographics
Are You Ready For the COVID-19 Vendor Risk Management Tsunami?
With COVID-19 impacting many vendors' businesses, use this infographic to help you prepare for the aftermath.
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