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The Vendor List is where you manage all third-party vendors. You can add vendors manually or through automated discovery, classify them by tier, and choose between manual and AI-powered risk assessments.

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Adding a vendor

1

Click Add New Vendor

Enter the vendor’s domain name. DSALTA will attempt to identify the company automatically.
2

Set vendor tier

Classify how critical this vendor is — Critical, High, Medium, Low, or Untiered.
3

Assign a portfolio

Categorize the vendor as a Supplier, Service Provider, or a custom portfolio you create.
4

Choose monitoring type

Select Automated for AI-powered continuous monitoring, or Manual for self-managed assessments.
Automated vendor assessments are powered by AI and scan vendor domains and IP addresses. The initial scan may take 10–20 minutes to complete. From then on, DSALTA re-queues an automated vendor for a fresh scan in its nightly 02:00 America/New_York job, once that vendor’s last scan is more than a month old.

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Vendor discovery

Vendors are matched for you once, during framework onboarding: the onboarding assistant takes the infrastructure, code repository and email provider you selected there, matches them against DSALTA’s technology catalogue, adds each match to your vendor list as Untiered, and shows you the result to approve. That step runs a single time per framework — after it, vendors are added with Add New Vendor.

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Vendor list columns

Use automated monitoring for your most critical vendors and manual for lower-tier ones to balance thoroughness with cost.