Specialist Third-Party Risk Management

Your vendor risk
programme — built to
actually work.

Most organisations have a third-party risk process. Very few have one that protects them. Wamari fills that gap — end to end, hands on, with a senior specialist who has delivered this inside global enterprise organisations across financial services, healthcare, logistics, and retail.

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35.5%
of all breaches in 2024 were third-party related
SecurityScorecard — 2025 Global Third-Party Breach Report
$4.91M
average cost of a third-party vendor breach
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2025
68%
year-on-year rise in supply chain breaches
Verizon DBIR, 2024
The Problem

Most TPRM programmes look right. Very few work.

Questionnaires get sent. Responses come back incomplete. Findings sit in spreadsheets. Suppliers go unchallenged. Regulators arrive. Boards ask questions nobody can answer.

What typically happens
  • Questionnaires sent with no follow-up on incomplete responses
  • Risk findings documented but never actioned
  • Suppliers left unchallenged on critical control gaps
  • No meaningful remediation plans or closure evidence
  • Board and regulators receive no clear risk picture
  • Internal teams lack time and specialist expertise to fix it
  • Regulatory exposure grows silently — until an incident forces action
What Wamari delivers
  • Full questionnaire review with evidence evaluation — not just a score
  • Every finding translated into a prioritised, actionable risk position
  • Direct supplier engagement — we lead the difficult conversations
  • Structured remediation tracking through to evidenced closure
  • Board-ready risk reporting your executives can act on
  • Senior specialist delivery — the same person, every engagement
  • Documented regulatory evidence your auditors expect to see
Our Services

Four focused services. Start to finish.

Each service can be engaged independently or combined into a full programme — tailored to your sector, regulatory context, and team capacity.

SERVICE 01
Supplier Risk Assessments

The core of any TPRM programme is the quality of its supplier assessments. We review supplier questionnaires in full — evaluating responses, assessing security controls, and identifying the gaps that represent genuine risk to your organisation. Every assessment is built around your business context, regulatory obligations, and risk appetite. The output is a clear, prioritised risk position with specific recommended actions — not a spreadsheet of amber scores with no guidance on what to do next.

NIS2 DORA ISO 27001 NIST CSF GDPR
  • Full questionnaire review and evidence evaluation
  • Risk scoring mapped to your appetite and regulatory context
  • Business impact assessment — criticality, data risk, regulatory exposure
  • Control gap analysis against NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls
  • Supplier Risk Report with findings and recommended actions
  • Executive summary for leadership and board
  • Risk register inputs ready to use immediately
Discuss your assessment needs →
SERVICE 02
Escalation & Remediation

Finding a risk is the easy part. Getting a supplier to fix it is where most TPRM programmes stall. Wamari leads supplier engagement directly on your behalf — so your team is not stuck chasing evidence requests, managing difficult conversations, or watching remediation commitments go cold. When suppliers push back, we know how to push back harder — professionally, and with the regulatory weight behind us.

Supplier Engagement Remediation Tracking Risk Closure
  • Supplier escalation call preparation and facilitation
  • Direct supplier liaison and evidence chasing on your behalf
  • Structured remediation tracking with deadlines and closure evidence
  • Internal stakeholder coordination — procurement, legal, IT, compliance
  • Remediation Tracker — logged commitments and evidence of actions
  • Risk mitigation advisory — accept, mitigate, transfer, or escalate
  • Final risk position report on completion
Discuss escalation support →
SERVICE 03
TPRM Standard Documentation

A TPRM programme without proper documentation is not a programme — it is a set of ad hoc activities that cannot be audited, evidenced to a regulator, or repeated consistently. When a regulator asks for your supplier oversight framework, you need to produce it immediately and confidently. Wamari provides professionally drafted, immediately deployable documentation built to regulatory best practice — written by specialists who understand exactly what regulators expect to see.

DORA NIS2 FCA GDPR ISO 27001
  • Third Party Risk Management Policy
  • Vendor Onboarding and Due Diligence Framework
  • Supplier Risk Questionnaire Templates — tiered by risk
  • Business Impact Assessment Template
  • Risk Scoring and Tiering Methodology
  • Remediation Tracking and Closure Framework
  • Board and Executive Risk Reporting Templates
Request a documentation pack →
SERVICE 04
TPRM Challenge Workshop

The most common TPRM failure is not a policy gap — it is people who do not know how to make the right call when a vendor incident lands on their desk under pressure. The TPRM Challenge is our flagship simulation workshop designed specifically to build that instinct across your team. Real scenarios. Live chaos. A Boardroom Reckoning at the end.

Live Simulation Inject Cards Boardroom Reckoning AI-Facilitated
  • Half-day — 8 scenarios, up to 15 participants
  • Full-day — all 20 scenarios including Boardroom Reckoning
  • Hidden Twists on every scenario — mirrors real incident escalation
  • 8 live Inject Cards facilitated using AI in real time
  • Post-session gap analysis report — full-day option
  • Annual licence for internal delivery by your facilitators
  • Produces documented regulatory evidence of TPRM training
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About Wamari

Senior delivery. Every time.

Every Wamari engagement is led and delivered personally by our founder. No juniors. No handoffs. The same specialist who takes your discovery call is the person who does the work.

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Wamari Founder
Lead Consultant & Specialist, Wamari
  • CISA — Certified Information Systems Auditor
  • ACCA Qualified — Chartered Accountant
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework Practitioner
  • ISACA AI Qualification — In Progress
  • Non-Executive, Audit & Risk Committee — Major Sporting Governing Body
  • 20+ years across financial services, healthcare, policing & logistics

Wamari was founded with a single conviction: that third-party risk management is one of the most important and most poorly executed functions in enterprise security — and that the gap between what organisations think their TPRM programme does and what it actually does is where the real danger lives.

"Unlike larger consultancies where your programme gets handed to a junior analyst, with Wamari you get a CISA-certified specialist with 20 years of hands-on enterprise experience. We don't manage people who do the work. We do the work."

Our lead consultant's career spans two decades across some of the UK's most complex and regulated environments — including national healthcare, law enforcement, financial services, and aviation — building deep expertise in IT audit, financial controls, cyber risk, and third-party assurance. We have personally delivered third-party risk assessments across 100–200 suppliers per client for global enterprise organisations in financial services, healthcare, logistics, and retail.

Our approach is direct, evidence-based, and practical. Every engagement begins with a genuine understanding of the client's business context, regulatory obligations, and risk appetite — and ends with documented outputs that close risk, satisfy regulators, and inform board-level decisions.

Our founder currently serves as a Non-Executive member of an Audit & Risk Committee at board level, providing independent oversight of risk management, internal controls, and governance — bringing that same standard of rigour to every Wamari client engagement.

20+
Years of specialist experience
100s
Supplier assessments delivered per client
5+
Regulated sectors — hands on
Why Wamari

Specialist. Not generalist.
Practical, not theoretical.

Most firms tell you what to do with suppliers. Wamari leads those conversations — and stays until the risk is closed.

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Exclusively third-party risk

We work only in TPRM — not as one of twenty service lines. Our entire focus is supplier and vendor risk management. It is all we do. That depth shows in every engagement.

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We engage suppliers on your behalf

Most consultancies tell you what to do. Wamari leads supplier escalation calls, chases evidence requests, challenges pushback, and tracks remediation through to closure. The hard work is ours.

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Outputs you can act on immediately

Risk reports. Remediation trackers. Policy frameworks. Training records. Everything we produce is designed to close risks, satisfy regulators, and inform decisions — not generate activity.

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Regulatory fluency — applied, not theoretical

DORA. NIS2. FCA operational resilience. GDPR. We don't reference these frameworks — we apply them practically to every assessment, every report, and every supplier conversation we have.

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Enterprise-grade experience

We have delivered third-party risk programmes inside global enterprise organisations across financial services, healthcare, logistics, and retail — assessing hundreds of suppliers per client across multiple jurisdictions.

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Built around your organisation

We work alongside your procurement, legal, IT, and compliance teams — not around them. We adapt to your governance, your systems, and your constraints. No generic frameworks dropped on your desk.

How We Work

From first conversation
to closed risk.

Every engagement follows the same structured process — from understanding your programme to evidencing risk closure.

01
Discovery Call

30 minutes. We take time to understand your programme, your most pressing risks, your regulatory context, and your team's capacity. No preparation needed on your side.

02
Scoping & Proposal

We recommend the right service or combination of services and deliver a tailored proposal within 48 hours of our conversation — specific to your sector and needs.

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Delivery

We work as an extension of your team — assessments, escalation calls, documentation, or workshops — integrated with your governance and internal processes throughout.

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Outcomes Delivered

Every engagement closes with documented evidence — risk reports, remediation trackers, policy frameworks, training records. Not just activity. Measurable, auditable results.

Experience & Scale

Enterprise-grade delivery
across regulated sectors.

We have personally delivered TPRM work inside global enterprise organisations across multiple sectors, jurisdictions, and regulatory frameworks.

Financial Services
Insurance
Healthcare
Logistics & Supply Chain
Retail & FMCG
Public Sector
Law Enforcement
Aviation
Technology
Sports & Governing Bodies
20+
Years of hands-on TPRM and audit experience
100–200
Suppliers assessed per enterprise client engagement
UK · EU · US
International delivery across multiple regulatory jurisdictions
Credentials & Frameworks

Qualified. Certified.
Framework-aligned.

Every Wamari engagement is underpinned by formal qualifications, professional certifications, and deep practical experience with the frameworks that matter most to regulators.

CISA
Certified Information Systems Auditor
ISACA — the globally recognised standard for information systems audit, control, and security.
CERTIFIED
ACCA
Chartered Accountant — Qualified by Exams and Experience
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants — financial controls and governance foundation.
QUALIFIED
NIST CSF
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Applied to supplier risk assessments, control gap analysis, and risk scoring across all engagements.
PRACTITIONER
NIS2
Network & Information Systems Directive 2
Supply chain security obligations for essential service operators across the EU — applied in all relevant engagements.
ALIGNED
DORA
Digital Operational Resilience Act
Third-party ICT risk requirements for financial services — incorporated into all financial sector assessments and documentation.
ALIGNED
ISACA AI
Artificial Intelligence Qualification
AI risk, governance, and assurance in emerging technology environments — extending TPRM capability to AI vendor risk.
IN PROGRESS
Regulatory Fluency

We know what regulators expect to see.

All Wamari work is designed around the regulatory frameworks your organisation is accountable to — so every output we produce is audit-ready from day one.

GDPR
Data protection and supplier data processing obligations
NIS2
Supply chain security for essential service operators
DORA
ICT third-party risk for financial services firms
FCA
Operational resilience and outsourcing requirements
ISO 27001
Information security management and supplier controls
NIST CSF
Cybersecurity framework applied to vendor risk scoring
Get Started

Your supplier risk programme
needs to actually work.

Book a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll identify your three biggest third-party risk exposures and tell you exactly what needs to happen next. No preparation needed. No obligation.

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No preparation needed
Senior specialist — every call
Tailored proposal within 48 hours
No obligation
Contact

Let's discuss your
supplier risk programme.

Book a consultation with the Wamari team. A practical conversation about your needs — and how we can help.

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Email
contact@wamari.co.uk
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Locations
UK · US · Europe · Global
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Response Time
Within one business day
What to expect
  • A discussion of your supplier risk programme and priorities
  • Understanding your most pressing risk areas and regulatory context
  • Initial thoughts on which Wamari services would help most
  • A tailored proposal within 48 hours of our conversation
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