LIFECYCLE - RISK CATEGORIES - CONTINUOUS MONITORING - ALGORITHMIC SUPPLY CHAIN - FOURTH PARTY VENDORS
Assurance platforms with scalable capacity for Vendor & Procurement Risk leaders
TPRM built as a point-in-time compliance exercise leaves you disconnected from both continuous reality and the rest of enterprise risk — compliant on paper, blind in practice. Armus2 connects vendor risk to the same live model as continuity, crisis and risk management, so a supplier failure shows up as an operational fact, not a quarterly surprise.
Trusted by Vendor, Risk and Crisis Managers in Finance, Digital, Health, Manufacturing, Utilities, Avionics
WHAT VENDOR & PROCUREMENT LEADERS FACE TODAY
Third Party Management tools face the Armus2 answer
Most third-party risk software digitises the questionnaire. Armus2 was built to remove the reasons a questionnaire-based programme falls behind reality in the first place. Seven things distinguish the platform from a typical point solution.
1. One lifecycle, not a stitched-together stack. Onboarding, due diligence, SLA management, risk tiering, continuous monitoring and exit planning all sit in the same underlying model — not separate modules bolted together with CSV exports between them. A vendor has one record from first contact to off boarding, not five.
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2. Dependency-linked Recovery Time Objectives. Vendor criticality is cross-referenced directly against your organisation's Recovery Time Objectives. A supplier failure is automatically read against your resilience targets the moment it happens, not manually checked against a spreadsheet weeks later.
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3. Fourth-party mapping, not fourth-party guessing. Sub-processor and downstream vendor relationships are captured and monitored as part of the same connected model, not left as a disclosure buried in a contract appendix that nobody revisits.
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4. Stressed-exit plans as a standing capability. Exit and contingency plans for critical vendors are held ready and validated on a set cadence, not drafted for the first time once a vendor is already failing, sanctioned, or underperforming.
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5. Risk-tiered effort, not flat-questionnaire effort. Armus2 automatically categorises vendors using Business Impact Analysis dependencies and your own risk criteria, so assessment depth and monitoring frequency scale with actual exposure — not a fixed annual cycle applied uniformly to every supplier.
6. One evidence base for every framework you're held to. DORA, NIS2, the Cyber Resilience Act, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, UK supply-chain due diligence equivalents, OCC/FDIC/Federal Reserve interagency guidance on third-party relationships, ISO 20400 and ISO 26000 are mapped once, from the same underlying data — not re-run as separate compliance exercises each time a new regulation lands.
7. Built by practitioners, not sold by vendors. Armus2 is designed by people who've written the due diligence, mapped the supplier SLA, and managed the operational recovery when a supplier failed to deliver. That's not theory — it's built into how the platform works.
Armus2 Takes the Weight Off
Armus2 is a single adaptive platform that unifies Operational Resilience, Risk Management, Continuity, TPRM, Crisis and Incident Management — so the picture that used to live across multiple teams with several tools now lives in one place instead.
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We understand the problem because we've built the response frameworks ourselves. Armus2 is designed by practitioners who've written the due diligence, mapped the supplier SLA, and managed the operational recovery when suppliers and fourth party providers have failed to deliver.
That's experience — it's built into how the platform works.​
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1. See Every Vendor Risk in Real Time
Armus2 reports in the minute, not on the assessment calendar. Instead of working off a snapshot that's already stale by the time it's reviewed, you get live visibility into vendor risk as it changes, closing the single biggest gap practitioners flag today: point-in-time assessments that decay the moment they're signed off.
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2. Stop Treating Every Vendor the Same
Armus2 automatically categorises your most critical vendors using BIA dependencies and your own risk criteria, and provides due diligence intelligence, so effort and scrutiny go where the actual exposure is, not evenly across a flat vendor list. No more running the same detailed questionnaire for a stationery supplier and a core banking provider.
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3. One Platform, One Risk Picture. TPRM, BC, Crisis, and Risk Together
Because TPRM is cross-referenced with risk management, business continuity and crisis management in the same system, Armus2 closes the integration gap that leaves most programmes isolated from the rest of the business.
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4. Know Your RTOs Line Up With Reality, before the Board Asks
Armus2 cross-references vendor criticality directly against Recovery Time Objectives, so you always know whether a third-party failure would breach your recovery targets, not months later, when a resilience test or an incident forces the question.
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5. Be Ready to Walk Away, Not Scramble to
Armus2 holds stressed-exit plans as a standing capability, not a document nobody's opened since it was written. When a critical vendor fails, gets sanctioned, or simply underperforms, you already have a workable exit path and automated SLA-compliance tracking means you'll know it's needed before it becomes a crisis.
We Speak Supply Chain, So You Don't Have To
Our experience, knowledge and understanding is part of the Armus2 culture. From manufacturing to digital, finance, healthcare, government and commercial, we've taken the time to understand global to local governance and regulation, industry standards and best practice. DORA, NIS2, CRA, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), UK supply-chain due diligence equivalents, OCC/FDIC/Federal Reserve interagency guidance on third-party relationships, NIST SP 800-61, ISO 20400, ISO 26000. We have it covered.
Instead of treating each regulation as a separate project, Armus2 maps your controls, evidence and third-party data once, and integrates that work into a single set that manages the risk cycle at the same time. When a board asks you to prove it, you already have the answer, in one place, with one set of evidence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions on third-party risk management
How is this different from a questionnaire-based TPRM tool?
Most TPRM tools digitise a point-in-time questionnaire and store the result. Armus2 cross-references that result against operational reality, your continuity plans, your RTOs, your incident history so it tells you when a vendor's risk profile has actually changed, not just when the next review is due. It digitises due diligence, empowers the information you need from your vendors and gets the hard work done in your digital environment, your way.
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Does Armus2 replace our existing vendor risk register?
Either. Most organisations start by importing their existing vendor register and risk criteria as-is, then lets Armus2 keep it live from there. Your tiering methodology doesn't have to change on day one. You continue doing it your way.
How does Armus2 handle fourth-party and sub-processor risk?
Sub-processor and downstream vendor relationships are captured as part of the same connected model as your direct suppliers, so exposure below the first tier is visible and monitored, not left buried in a contract appendix. Armus2 has a unique method to simplify this collection so you don't waste valuable time, resources and maintenance.
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What happens when a critical vendor fails?
Because stressed-exit plans are held for essential vendors as a standing capability rather than a static document, you already have a workable exit path in place. Because vendor criticality is cross-referenced against your Recovery Time Objectives, you know in advance whether that failure would breach your resilience targets. You have every step locked in, risk reduced and a validated plan to continue essential and critical services.
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