Guardial Third-Party Risk vs RiskXchange

Guardial Third-Party Risk is a web module in Guardial’s AI-native GRC platform for regulated financial-services organizations. It keeps vendor records from onboarding through offboarding, including contracts, questionnaires, attestations, risk-score history, and responsible people. Expert-built questionnaires address SOC 2, business continuity and disaster recovery, information security, financial health, and regulatory matters. Teams can score responses, identify missing evidence, and reuse answers among vendors with shared parents. A renewal agent checks inventory daily, flags contracts renewing within 90 days, and drafts reviews for confirmation. Guardial says a person reviews every questionnaire before sending, while agents draft rather than act autonomously. Contract metadata can cover terms, renewals, audit rights, service levels, and data scope. Security features include role-based access and an immutable audit log; the maker says agents are not trained on customer data. Support replies within four business hours during business hours. Pricing is by proposal, with a free trial.

RiskXchange is a third-party risk management platform that combines external security ratings with vendor evidence and ongoing monitoring. Its outside-in network covers more than five million companies, according to the company. The platform scores risk from 0 to 900 and includes dark-web breach correlation, compliance mapping and remediation tracking. Its Agency comprises five lead agents and 27 specialists for tasks including onboarding vendors, assessing evidence, monitoring, remediation and regulatory reporting. NOVA can contact vendors by email, WhatsApp or in-app chat; customers can pause contact for an individual vendor. Integrations include Jira, ServiceNow, Archer, OneTrust, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Professional and Enterprise include a REST API, and webhooks support event-driven workflows. RiskXchange says it holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications, with regional hosting in the UK, EU and US and tenant data held in the selected region. Plans start at £14,900/yr; a free SnapShot evaluates one live vendor and provides a posture report within 24 hours.