Financial services face mandates requiring supply chain visibility "by yesterday" while organizations struggle with decentralized contract management where shared responsibility becomes no responsibility. External rating systems provide surface-level visibility but miss artificial intelligence startups with minimal exposure history or concentrated dependencies on hyperscalers where single breaches cascade across industries.

Effective supply chain security requires treating every third party as an extension of business continuity planning rather than compliance checkboxes.

In this panel discussion, the experts will share insights on:

• Mapping suppliers to detailed business processes to enable priority-based risk assessment instead of treating all vendors equally;
• Using retrieval-augmented AI to harvest audit rights and pen testing clauses from scattered contracts;
• Balancing operational efficiency by becoming security enablers rather than blockers that erode credibility.