Vendor category

Security Tools vendors

Security tools — SIEM, endpoint protection, vulnerability scanners, and penetration testing vendors — have highly privileged access to your environment. A compromised security vendor can be more dangerous than a compromised business application.

Risk profile for this category

Very high. Security vendors often have agent-level access to endpoints, network traffic visibility, and access to vulnerability data that amounts to a map of your attack surface. The SolarWinds incident demonstrated the catastrophic potential of a compromised security vendor. Require SOC 2 Type II and supply chain security commitments.

Sample vendors in this category

CrowdStrike

crowdstrike.com

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, FedRAMP Moderate.

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Wiz

wiz.io

SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001.

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Snyk

snyk.io

SOC 2 Type II.

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Common questions

How do I assess the security of my security vendors?

Apply the same rigor to your security vendors as to any other critical vendor — and then some. Require SOC 2 Type II with the availability and confidentiality criteria in scope. Review their subprocessor list carefully. Ask about their own vulnerability disclosure program and incident response SLAs.

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