Vendor Risk Monitor Skill

Purpose

Provide continuous vendor security monitoring by tracking security ratings, monitoring breach notifications, detecting certificate issues, and alerting on risk changes for proactive third-party risk management.

Capabilities

Security Rating Monitoring

• Track vendor security ratings from rating services
• Monitor rating changes and trends
• Compare ratings against thresholds
• Analyze rating factor changes
• Generate rating trend reports
• Alert on rating downgrades

Breach Notification Tracking

• Monitor public breach databases
• Track vendor-disclosed incidents
• Correlate breaches with vendor inventory
• Assess breach impact on data
• Generate breach impact reports
• Trigger incident response workflows

Certificate Status Checking

• Monitor vendor SSL/TLS certificates
• Track certificate expiration dates
• Detect certificate issues
• Verify certificate chain validity
• Alert on upcoming expirations
• Check certificate transparency logs

Dark Web Monitoring

• Monitor dark web for vendor exposures
• Detect leaked credentials
• Identify data for sale
• Track threat actor mentions
• Correlate with vendor risk profiles
• Generate exposure reports

Risk Change Alerting

• Detect significant risk changes
• Correlate multiple risk signals
• Generate risk change notifications
• Escalate critical changes
• Update vendor risk profiles
• Trigger reassessment workflows

Monitoring Report Generation

• Generate continuous monitoring reports
• Create executive dashboards
• Produce trend analysis
• Build risk heat maps
• Export data for GRC systems
• Support board reporting

Monitoring Sources

Risk Signals Monitored

• Security rating changes
• New vulnerability disclosures
• Data breach announcements
• Certificate issues
• Domain security problems
• DNS configuration issues
• Email security posture
• Network security indicators
• Patching cadence
• Open ports and services

Integrations

• BitSight: Security ratings platform
• SecurityScorecard: Security ratings and benchmarks
• RiskRecon: Third-party risk monitoring
• Black Kite: Cyber risk ratings
• UpGuard: Third-party risk monitoring
• Recorded Future: Threat intelligence

Target Processes

• Third-Party Vendor Security Assessment
• Continuous Compliance Monitoring
• Vendor Risk Management
• Supply Chain Security

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "operation": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["monitor", "check-ratings", "check-breaches", "check-certificates", "generate-report", "configure-alerts"],
      "description": "Monitoring operation type"
    },
    "vendors": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "vendorId": { "type": "string" },
          "vendorName": { "type": "string" },
          "domain": { "type": "string" },
          "riskTier": { "type": "string" }
        }
      },
      "description": "Vendors to monitor"
    },
    "monitoringScope": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": ["ratings", "breaches", "certificates", "dark-web", "news", "regulatory"]
      }
    },
    "alertThresholds": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "ratingDropThreshold": { "type": "number" },
        "minimumRating": { "type": "number" },
        "certificateExpiryDays": { "type": "integer" }
      }
    },
    "reportingPeriod": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "startDate": { "type": "string", "format": "date" },
        "endDate": { "type": "string", "format": "date" }
      }
    },
    "notificationChannels": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "type": "string" }
    }
  },
  "required": ["operation"]
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "monitoringId": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "operation": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "timestamp": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time"
    },
    "vendorsMonitored": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "ratingsSummary": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "vendorsWithRatings": { "type": "integer" },
        "averageRating": { "type": "number" },
        "belowThreshold": { "type": "integer" },
        "ratingChanges": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "vendorId": { "type": "string" },
              "previousRating": { "type": "number" },
              "currentRating": { "type": "number" },
              "change": { "type": "number" },
              "changeDate": { "type": "string" }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "breachAlerts": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "vendorId": { "type": "string" },
          "vendorName": { "type": "string" },
          "breachDate": { "type": "string" },
          "description": { "type": "string" },
          "dataTypes": { "type": "array" },
          "recordsAffected": { "type": "integer" },
          "source": { "type": "string" }
        }
      }
    },
    "certificateAlerts": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "vendorId": { "type": "string" },
          "domain": { "type": "string" },
          "issue": { "type": "string" },
          "expirationDate": { "type": "string" },
          "daysUntilExpiry": { "type": "integer" }
        }
      }
    },
    "darkWebFindings": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "vendorId": { "type": "string" },
          "findingType": { "type": "string" },
          "description": { "type": "string" },
          "discoveryDate": { "type": "string" },
          "severity": { "type": "string" }
        }
      }
    },
    "riskChanges": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "vendorId": { "type": "string" },
          "vendorName": { "type": "string" },
          "previousRiskLevel": { "type": "string" },
          "currentRiskLevel": { "type": "string" },
          "triggers": { "type": "array" },
          "recommendedAction": { "type": "string" }
        }
      }
    },
    "alertsSent": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "recommendations": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "type": "string" }
    },
    "reportPath": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  }
}

Usage Example

skill: {
  name: 'vendor-risk-monitor',
  context: {
    operation: 'monitor',
    vendors: [
      { vendorId: 'v001', vendorName: 'Cloud Provider', domain: 'cloudprovider.com', riskTier: 'critical' }
    ],
    monitoringScope: ['ratings', 'breaches', 'certificates'],
    alertThresholds: {
      ratingDropThreshold: 10,
      minimumRating: 700,
      certificateExpiryDays: 30
    }
  }
}