Supply Chain
SecurityYour clients depend on dozens of third-party vendors — SaaS platforms, payment processors, cloud providers, IT tools — but you have no visibility into their security posture
Build and maintain a complete inventory of your third-party vendors with continuous risk scoring based on criticality, data handling sensitivity, and operational dependency. Lynx performs passive-by-default vendor assessments — DNS analysis, OSINT enrichment, dark web monitoring — and escalates to active checks when you opt in. Know exactly which vendors pose the greatest risk to your organization at all times.
Platform Capabilities
Everything inside Supply Chain.
Vendor Risk Tiering
Classify vendors into Tier 1 (critical) through Tier 4 (minimal) based on data handling sensitivity, operational dependency, and business impact. Assessment frequency adjusts automatically per tier.
Passive DNS Assessment
Analyze vendor DNS infrastructure — MX records, nameservers, SPF/DMARC/DKIM policies, CAA records — to identify email spoofing risks and infrastructure weaknesses without touching vendor systems.
Certificate Health Monitoring
Track vendor SSL/TLS certificates for expiration, weak cipher suites, misconfigured chains, and unauthorized certificate issuance via Certificate Transparency logs.
Dark Web Vendor Workspace
Dedicated dark web monitoring workspace for each vendor. Track leaked credentials, breach disclosures, and exposed configurations specific to vendor domains and email patterns.
Active Security Scanning
Opt-in active assessment mode performs SSL/TLS cipher analysis, HTTP security header validation, TCP service enumeration, and exposed endpoint discovery on vendor infrastructure.
Social Profile Tracking
Monitor vendor social media and developer accounts (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) for status changes, exposed repositories, and suspicious development activity.
Assessment Evidence Capture
Every assessment generates evidence artifacts — IP probe telemetry, open service counts, active check metadata — ready for compliance audits and vendor review meetings.
Vendor Change Notifications
Summarized alerts when vendor infrastructure, social profiles, or domain configurations change — delivered as a single notification per scan to prevent alert fatigue.
Core Capabilities
What Supply Chain delivers.
Your clients depend on dozens of third-party vendors — SaaS platforms, payment processors, cloud providers, IT tools — but you have no visibility into their security posture. When a vendor gets breached, you find out from the news, not from your security tools. Supply chain attacks are now the most common initial access vector, and most organizations cannot answer the basic question: which of our vendors pose the greatest risk?
Vendor portfolio management
Full inventory of third-party vendors with risk tiering based on criticality, data handling (PII/PHI/financial), and operational dependency. Recommended assessment cadence per tier.
- Every major breach in the last 3 years started with a compromised vendor. Supply chain monitoring is no longer optional.
Passive vendor assessment
DNS-based discovery and OSINT enrichment examines vendor external posture without intrusive probing. Covers DNS records, certificate health, email security, and exposed infrastructure.
- Passive-by-default means you can assess vendors without their knowledge or cooperation — critical for organizations with hundreds of vendors.
Dark web vendor monitoring
Auto-enrolls every vendor domain in dark web monitoring. Surfaces leaked credentials, breach disclosures, and exposed configurations specific to your vendor ecosystem.
- Dark web integration means you know about vendor credential leaks before the vendor does.
Active assessment mode
Opt-in deeper checks including SSL/TLS cipher analysis, HTTP security header validation, TCP service enumeration, and exposed endpoint discovery.
- Evidence-based scoring creates an auditable trail from vendor risk to board-level reporting.
Social profile & code monitoring
Monitors vendor GitHub accounts, social profiles, and public repositories for status changes, exposed credentials, and development activity anomalies.
- Every major breach in the last 3 years started with a compromised vendor. Supply chain monitoring is no longer optional.
Why Lynx
Traditional approach vs. Lynx.
Vendor visibility
Assessment frequency
Data source
Dark web coverage
Active scanning
Compliance evidence
Built for MSPs & SMBs
Why teams choose Lynx.
Purpose-built for managed service providers and growing businesses.
Vendor Risk as a Service
Offer supply chain risk assessment as a managed service to your clients. Lynx automates the assessment, you deliver the branded report and remediation guidance at your QBR.
No Vendor Cooperation Required
Passive assessments work without vendor knowledge or cooperation. Assess hundreds of vendors without sending a single questionnaire or waiting weeks for responses.
Compliance-Ready Evidence
Auto-generated evidence packages satisfy SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and CMMC third-party risk requirements. Your clients pass audits without the manual evidence scramble.
Portfolio-Wide Risk Visibility
See aggregated vendor risk across all clients from one dashboard. Identify which vendors pose the greatest risk across your entire MSP portfolio.
See Supply Chain in Action
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Our Process
From first call to full resolution.
Our structured process ensures nothing falls through the cracks — every phase has defined objectives, deliverables, and handoffs.
Add vendors to your portfolio
Step 1Add vendors to your portfolio with basic information — domain, contact, service category, and data handling classification.
Lynx automatically runs passive assessment:
Step 2Lynx automatically runs passive assessment: DNS analysis, certificate health, email security (SPF/DMARC/DKIM), and dark web enrollment.
Risk scoring calculates based on
Step 3Risk scoring calculates based on assessment findings, data sensitivity tier, operational criticality, and dark web exposure.
Critical findings trigger alerts to
Step 4Critical findings trigger alerts to your ticketing system with vendor-specific remediation recommendations.
Optional active mode provides deeper
Step 5Optional active mode provides deeper analysis: SSL/TLS configuration, security headers, exposed services, and open ports.
Quarterly and annual vendor risk
Step 6Quarterly and annual vendor risk reports auto-generate with trending, comparison, and compliance-ready evidence packages.
Integrations
Connects with your existing stack.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Not unless you tell them. Passive-by-default assessments analyze only publicly available information — DNS records, certificates, dark web exposure, and OSINT. There is no probing, no scanning, and no contact with vendor infrastructure. Active assessment mode (opt-in) does perform deeper checks and is typically used with vendor cooperation.
Full-Spectrum Response
Related Services
Our services work together to cover every phase of an incident — from first response through full recovery.
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