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Certa for Risk Teams

Every risk domain. One operating picture.

Your risk lives in seven different tools, owned by eight different teams, refreshed once a year if you’re lucky. By the time the periodic reassessment lands, the exposure has already moved. Certa unifies every risk domain into one continuous picture — and surfaces only what needs a human, with Third Party Risk Management By Exception℠.

  • All seven risk domains in one register — not seven disconnected spreadsheets
  • Continuous monitoring replaces point-in-time reassessments that are stale on arrival
  • By Exception℠ means your team reviews the exposures that changed, not the whole portfolio
Unified risk pictureLive
One register. Every domain. Only the exceptions surface.
Operational & ResilienceInfosec & CyberCompliance & LegalFinancial & CreditReputationalGeopoliticalESG & EthicalAll other domains
9,610
vendors monitored
By Exception℠ active
4
surfaced for review
9,606 auto-dispositioned

Active alerts

Northwind Logistics — Tier 3 · Supplier
Operational & Resilience · Risk index Low · Auto-cleared
Acme Cloud Services — Tier 2 · Sub-processor
Infosec & Cyber · Risk index Medium · Monitoring
TechFlow Payments — Tier 1 · Critical
Geopolitical & Location-Based · Risk index Elevated · Surfaced · review
Meridian Capital — Tier 1 · Critical
Financial & Credit · Risk index Elevated · Surfaced · review
Coastal Manufacturing — Tier 3 · Supplier
ESG & Ethical · Risk index Low · Auto-cleared
By Exception℠ active · 9,610 vendors monitored · 4 surfaced for review

Powering 10M+ third parties under management for risk teams like

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The risk team’s reality

You can’t manage what you can’t see in one place

Risk doesn’t arrive on the schedule of your reassessment calendar. The pressure on enterprise risk teams isn’t effort — it’s fragmentation.

Siloed risk views

Cyber lives in one tool, financial in another, compliance in a third. No one holds the whole picture for a single vendor.

Stale periodic reassessments

An annual review tells you what was true 18 months ago. Real exposures shift the day after you close the file.

No continuous picture

Without live monitoring, concentration risk and fourth-party exposure stay hidden until they become an incident.

Board reporting is manual

Pulling a defensible risk picture for the board means weeks of stitching exports together by hand.

Third Party Risk Management By Exception℠

One register. Every domain. Only the exceptions surface.

Certa scores every third party across all seven risk domains and monitors them continuously. Your team doesn’t work the whole portfolio — it works the rows that changed.

Third party · domainTop risk domainRisk indexDisposition
Northwind Logistics
Tier 3 · Supplier
Operational & Resilience
Low
Auto-cleared
Acme Cloud Services
Tier 2 · Sub-processor
Infosec & Cyber
Medium
Monitoring
TechFlow Payments
Tier 1 · Critical
Geopolitical & Location-Based
Elevated
Surfaced · review
Meridian Capital
Tier 1 · Critical
Financial & Credit
Elevated
Surfaced · review
Coastal Manufacturing
Tier 3 · Supplier
ESG & Ethical
Low
Auto-cleared
9,610 vendors scored. 9,606 auto-dispositioned. 4 surfaced for human review — that’s where your team spends its day. Illustrative product view.

How Certa helps risk teams

From fragmented monitoring to one defensible picture

Unified domains

All seven risk domains — operational, cyber, compliance, financial, reputational, geopolitical, and ESG — scored in one register

Continuous monitoring

Live signals replace point-in-time reviews, so your risk posture reflects today, not last year’s questionnaire

By Exception℠

Auto-disposition the routine; surface only what genuinely needs a risk analyst’s judgment

Concentration visibility

Fourth-party and sub-tier dependencies surfaced before they cascade into an incident or an exam finding

Tool consolidation

A web-infrastructure leader consolidated 6 systems and 8–10 teams onto Certa for 50% greater efficiency

Board-ready reporting

A defensible, documented risk picture across the whole portfolio — without weeks of manual stitching

Continuous, not periodic

Stop reassessing on a calendar. Start monitoring on signal.

Periodic reassessment is a snapshot of a moving target. Certa shifts your program to a continuous posture — the model enterprise regulators and boards increasingly expect — so risk changes reach you when they happen, not at the next review window.

  • Live data from BitSight, Rapid Ratings, Black Kite, and Interos keeps risk profiles current between cycles
  • Re-scores a vendor automatically when a signal moves — no waiting for the annual review
  • Every change is logged with a timestamp and rationale for a complete, defensible audit trail

Periodic reassessment

  • Annual questionnaire refresh
  • Stale between cycles
  • Whole portfolio re-reviewed
  • Risk found after the fact
  • Manual evidence gathering

Continuous on Certa

  • Always-on signal monitoring
  • Current every single day
  • Only exceptions surface
  • Risk found as it shifts
  • Evidence captured automatically

One operating system

Retire the patchwork. Run risk from one place.

Most risk teams have inherited a tool per domain and a spreadsheet per gap. Certa replaces the patchwork with one no-code operating system — configured to your risk appetite with Vibe Configuration℠, not a six-month engineering project.

  • Bring every risk domain and every third-party type into a single register
  • Configure your institution’s risk appetite, tiers, and controls without writing code
  • 130+ integrations connect the data sources your teams already trust

The patchwork you run today

Cyber ratings toolFinancial monitorSanctions screeningESG trackerGRC spreadsheetVendor inbox
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One Third Party Operating System
Every domain, every third party, scored and monitored together

Proof, not promises

Risk programs that got their picture back

Real outcomes from teams that unified their risk operations on Certa.

6 systems → 1
A web-infrastructure leader consolidated 6 systems and 8–10 teams onto one platform
Consolidation
50%
Greater efficiency for that same web-infrastructure leader after consolidating
Efficiency
10M+
Third parties under management across the Certa customer base
Scale
Leader
Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for TPRM Tools
Recognition

Certa AI

The judgment scales. The noise doesn’t.

By Exception℠ works because Certa’s AI agents do the routine adjudication, so your analysts apply judgment where it actually matters. Every decision carries a documented rationale — defensible to an auditor, the board, or a regulator.

Design

Stands up risk workflows and tiering rules from your policy — no engineering bottleneck.

Data

Enriches every profile from live sources so risk scores reflect reality, not a stale questionnaire.

Risk

Continuously tiers and re-scores vendors across all seven domains and flags what moved.

Adjudicate

Clears the routine with a cited rationale, surfacing only genuine exposures for review.

See it on your portfolio

Bring every risk domain into one operating picture

See how Certa gives enterprise risk teams a continuous, defensible view across all seven risk domains — and surfaces only what needs you.

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