Manage Fourth parties

Introduction

SAFE provides visibility not only into your direct third-party vendors but also their associated vendors—commonly known as fourth-parties. This capability helps you map the extended risk surface across your digital supply chain.

Accessing Fourth-Parties

1. Navigate to Third-Party from the left-hand navigation panel.

2. Click on the Fourth-Party tab available at the top of the Third-Parties page.

The system displays a list of all vendors associated with your third-party organizations.

Each entry in the Fourth-Party tab includes:

• Fourth-Party Name

• Linked Third-Party count (the number of direct vendor through which the fourth-party is associated)

• Number of Breach Incident associated with that fourth-party

• SAFE Score

• Option to Edit or Delete the Fourth-party

How Fourth Parties Are Discovered

Fourth-parties can be identified through multiple mechanisms:

• Automated enumeration based on identified TXT records and built-in discovery signatures

• Questionnaire responses from your third-party vendors

• Manual declaration by the analyst

SAFE automatically maps and links discovered fourth-parties to their respective third-parties.

Add Fourth party

While many fourth-parties are automatically discovered, SAFE also allows you to manually add fourth-party entities as needed.

1. Click the Add Fourth Party button on the Fourth-Party tab.

2. Enter the required details in the form:

   1. Name

   2. Domain

   3. Revenue

   4. Headquarters

   5. Industry

3. Click the Add button to save the entry.

4. The newly added fourth-party will now appear in the Fourth-Party list.