{"id":4929,"date":"2026-09-01T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skillarbitra.ge\/blog\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:05:28","slug":"third-party-risk-management-career-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skillarbitra.ge\/blog\/third-party-risk-management-career-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Party Risk Management Career Path"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In May 2023, attackers began exploiting a flaw in MOVEit, a managed file transfer product sitting quietly inside payroll bureaus, pension administrators and universities. By 26 October, the anti-malware firm Emsisoft had counted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/progress-software-moveit-meltdown\/703659\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2,559 organisations and 66,369,148 individuals<\/a> as confirmed impacted. Many of those organisations had never bought the software. They were reached through a vendor, or through a vendor&#8217;s vendor, and the third party risk management career path exists in its current shape largely because so few of them could name who sat in that chain.<\/p>\n<p>Regulators were already moving. On 6 June 2023 the Federal Reserve, the FDIC and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2023\/06\/09\/2023-12340\/interagency-guidance-on-third-party-relationships-risk-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">final joint guidance on third-party relationships<\/a>, replacing three separate rulebooks with a single lifecycle. The Reserve Bank of India&#8217;s IT outsourcing directions took effect on 1 October that year. The European Union&#8217;s resilience regulation followed in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Three jurisdictions, eighteen months, one direction of travel.<\/p>\n<hr>\n\n<p>The third party risk management career path runs from vendor risk analyst through senior analyst to programme manager, and it is now a staffed function with its own headcount rather than a procurement side-task. Entry roles ask for two to five years in IT audit, internal audit, compliance, procurement or information security, not a computer science degree. Glassdoor puts the US third party risk analyst average at $97,702 and the manager average at $133,083, while Bengaluru entry bands sit between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 9 lakh. Both of the best-known certifications in the field require five years of experience, so beginners start somewhere else.<\/p>\n<!-- SNIPPET-BAIT END -->\n\n<p>This article maps the third party risk management career path from a first assessment to the programme lead&#8217;s chair.<\/p>\n<p>Worth flagging one thing before the salary figures arrive. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes no separate occupation code for third-party risk (which is why the projections you will see quoted in this field are always borrowed from a neighbouring role). But the hiring evidence is stronger than the statistical evidence here, and job boards currently carry more than 2,000 openings in India alone.<\/p>\n\n<hr>\n\n<nav class=\"ls-toc\" aria-label=\"Table of contents\">\n<h2>Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"ls-toc-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#h2-1\">Where the third party risk management career path begins<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#h2-2\">Skills and certifications for the third party risk management career path<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#h2-3\">Salary bands and senior roles in third party risk management<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#frequently-asked-questions\">Frequently asked questions<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#references\">References<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n\n<hr>\n\n<a id=\"h2-1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"where-the-third-party-risk-management-career-path-begins\">Where the third party risk management career path begins<\/h2>\n<p>The third party risk management career path begins in an assessment seat, posted variously as third party risk analyst, vendor risk analyst, TPRM analyst or supplier assurance analyst. All four titles describe the same work: deciding how much damage a supplier could do, checking whether that supplier&#8217;s controls hold, and writing it down in a form an auditor will accept.<\/p>\n<p>That seat is funded because of the chain described above. When an organisation cannot say which of its suppliers touch customer data, a breach three links away becomes its breach, its notification obligation and its regulatory finding. And the first task in the job is boring and load-bearing at the same time: inherent risk tiering, meaning sorting several hundred suppliers into tiers by what they hold and what they could break.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing about the door into this work: it&#8217;s wider than most people assume. Listings pull from IT audit, internal audit, information security, procurement, contract review and anti-money-laundering operations, and the common requirement across them is two to five years of experience rather than a specific degree (a computer science background helps in exactly one place, which is reading penetration test output). What those backgrounds share is evidence discipline. An internal auditor already knows the difference between a control that exists on paper and a control someone has tested.<\/p>\n<p>The June 2023 interagency guidance set out five stages that now organise the work almost everywhere, including at firms the guidance does not bind: planning, due diligence and third-party selection, contract negotiation, ongoing monitoring, and termination. Entry analysts live almost entirely inside stages two and four. Contract negotiation belongs to legal and to more senior colleagues, and termination is rare enough that a new analyst may go a year without seeing one (which is worth knowing before an interview, because being asked to walk through all five stages is a standard opening question).<\/p>\n<p>Day to day, that means sending and scoring questionnaires. The Standardized Information Gathering questionnaire from Shared Assessments and the Cloud Security Alliance&#8217;s Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire are the two an analyst meets first, and a full SIG Core review has historically run <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.learntprm.com\/2026\/03\/27\/sig-questionnaire-guide-complete-tprm-deep-dive-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 to 30 hours of analyst time<\/a>, compressed to three to five hours where assisted review tooling is in place. Alongside the questionnaire sits the evidence: a SOC 2 Type II report, an ISO 27001 certificate, a penetration test summary, sometimes a business continuity plan or a <a href=\"https:\/\/skillarbitra.ge\/blog\/data-breach-response-plan-template\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data breach response plan<\/a>. The analyst&#8217;s job is to read those against the answers and find where the two disagree.<\/p>\n<p>What does that actually look like on the page? Something like this, written into an assessment as a finding: <em>Control gap: the vendor&#8217;s ISO 27001 certificate, issued March 2025, scopes only its Pune development centre and excludes the Hyderabad facility where our production data is stored. Evidence reference: certificate Annex A, scope statement, page 2. Remediation ask: extend certification scope at the next surveillance audit, or supply a SOC 2 Type II covering Hyderabad, by 31 March.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Three lines, one gap, one dated ask. That is the unit of work, repeated a few hundred times a year.<\/p>\n<p>Stage four, ongoing monitoring, is where the seat becomes a standing job rather than a project. The RBI&#8217;s outsourcing directions describe the shape of it plainly: continuous monitoring of service provider performance, periodic audits validating control effectiveness, and documented evidence of SLA tracking, incident reviews and risk reassessments. In practice that means an analyst is never finished with a supplier. The file reopens when the certificate expires, when the vendor reports an incident, when a subcontractor changes, or when the reassessment clock comes round.<\/p>\n<p>This is where most applicants go wrong. They prepare to talk about frameworks and arrive unable to describe a single finding they have written. The practical reality is that a hiring manager can tell within two questions whether someone has actually read a SOC 2 report or only knows what one is.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian hiring line for this is substantial and mostly invisible from outside. Glassdoor lists 3,142 third party risk management jobs across India, 1,149 of them in Bengaluru, and LinkedIn India carries more than 2,000. The employers behind those listings are the global capability centres and professional services firms: Tata Consultancy Services, Deloitte, EY, Grant Thornton INDUS, HSBC Global Services, Goldman Sachs, Broadridge and Tradeweb Markets among them. And most of that work supports a US or European parent, which is why the questionnaires, the frameworks and the reporting deadlines are all foreign ones (a detail that quietly decides which regulations are worth your study time).<\/p>\n<a id=\"h2-2\"><\/a>\n<h2 id=\"skills-and-certifications-for-the-third-party-risk-management-career-path\">Skills and certifications for the third party risk management career path<\/h2>\n<p>The skills that carry the third party risk management career path forward are framework fluency, evidence reading, and the documentation discipline that turns both into something a regulator will accept. Certifications matter, but later than the vendor blogs suggest, and for a reason worth spelling out.<\/p>\n<p>Take the documentation point first, because the regulatory chain made it a hiring criterion. When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eiopa.europa.eu\/digital-operational-resilience-act-dora_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Operational Resilience Act<\/a> began applying on 17 January 2025 to roughly 22,000 EU financial entities, it required each of them to maintain a Register of Information covering every contractual arrangement with an ICT third-party service provider, at entity, sub-consolidated and consolidated level. That register has to be available for inspection and submitted annually to the national authority.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the person who keeps the vendor inventory accurate is not doing admin. They are producing a supervisory filing.<\/p>\n<p>Four reference documents cover most of what an interviewer will probe. <a href=\"https:\/\/csrc.nist.gov\/news\/2022\/c-scrm-guidance-nist-sp-800-161r1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIST SP 800-161r1<\/a>, published in 2022, sets out cybersecurity supply chain risk management practices and complements NIST SP 800-53. ISO\/IEC 27036 covers information security for supplier relationships. The 2023 interagency guidance supplies the lifecycle.<\/p>\n<p>And for anyone working in India, the fourth is the one that gets skipped and shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The Reserve Bank of India notified its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbi.org.in\/Scripts\/BS_ViewMasDirections.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Master Direction on Outsourcing of Information Technology Services<\/a> on 10 April 2023, effective from 1 October 2023, covering scheduled commercial banks (excluding regional rural banks), local area banks, small finance banks, payments banks, primary urban co-operative banks, non-banking financial companies, credit information companies and All India Financial Institutions. It turns on the concept of material outsourcing, meaning any IT service whose disruption would significantly affect the entity&#8217;s operations or its customers. The obligations it creates are exactly the tasks in the job description: continuous monitoring of service provider performance, audit rights written into contracts, periodic control validation, and documented evidence of SLA tracking and incident review. A candidate who can explain material outsourcing in an interview with an Indian bank or NBFC is answering the question the panel actually cares about.<\/p>\n<p>Questionnaire fluency is the second skill, and it ages. Shared Assessments releases a new SIG version annually, and the 2026 release expanded its artificial intelligence, privacy and ESG content while refining the SIG Lite question set. CAIQ stays cloud-specific and maps to the Cloud Controls Matrix. The Vendor Security Alliance questionnaire turns up less often but appears in technology procurement.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing which one to send is a judgement an analyst is paid for. SIG spans enterprise risk management, data privacy, operational resilience and IT operations, so it works on any supplier rather than only a cloud provider, and SIG Lite exists for the tier where a full Core review would be disproportionate. Send Core to a payroll processor holding employee data, send Lite to a marketing agency with no system access, and the assessment queue stops being the bottleneck. Send Core to everyone and it will be.<\/p>\n<p>Then comes evidence reading, which is where the real skill sits. A current SOC 2 Type II addresses <a href=\"https:\/\/secureframe.com\/blog\/soc-2-vs-security-questionnaires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roughly 60 to 70% of CAIQ questions<\/a>, so the report does a lot of the work, but only if someone reads past the cover page. The parts that matter are the exceptions in section four (the tested-and-failed list, which is the single most skipped page in the document) and the carve-out language that quietly removes a subservice organisation from scope. But miss the second and an assessment has certified a cloud provider nobody assessed.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the clarification an analyst sends when that turns up: <em>Your SOC 2 Type II uses the carve-out method for your hosting provider, so the report&#8217;s controls do not extend to that subservice organisation. Please confirm which complementary subservice organisation controls you rely on, and share the hosting provider&#8217;s current SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 certificate covering the regions where our data resides.<\/em> Polite, specific, and it closes a hole the questionnaire never asked about.<\/p>\n<p>Now the certification question, and the answer most articles get wrong. The two recognised TPRM credentials both gate on experience. The Certified Third Party Risk Professional from <a href=\"https:\/\/sharedassessments.org\/ctprp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shared Assessments<\/a> requires five years as a risk management professional, and the Certified Third Party Risk Assessor requires five years in an assessment role performing IT risk control assessments of third parties.<\/p>\n<p>Both exams run 125 questions over three hours at a 70% pass mark. CTPRP costs $995 for members and $1,295 for non-members, CTPRA costs $1,195 and $1,495, both carry a $100 annual maintenance fee, and CTPRP requires 60 continuing professional education credits across its three-year term. Read the vendor blogs that list CTPRP as a way into the field and you are reading advice that cannot be followed by the people it is aimed at.<\/p>\n<p>So what does someone with two years do? Not those. SIG University&#8217;s C3PRMP programme states no experience prerequisite and runs eight to ten weeks across fifteen modules covering COBIT, ISO and NIST, though at $3,395 for members and $4,895 for non-members it is a serious outlay for an early-career candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The cheaper and more portable route is a credential that proves evidence-reading rather than programme design: <a href=\"https:\/\/skillarbitra.ge\/blog\/iso-27001-lead-auditor-course-career-path\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISO 27001 lead auditor<\/a>, CISA, or CRISC. An analyst who can audit against ISO 27001 can read the certificate that lands on their desk, which is the daily task. Get the years, then get the CTPRP.<\/p>\n<a id=\"h2-3\"><\/a>\n<h2 id=\"salary-bands-and-senior-roles-in-third-party-risk-management\">Salary bands and senior roles in third party risk management<\/h2>\n<p>Salary bands in third-party risk climb from roughly $97,700 to roughly $133,100 in average terms across four US rungs, with the percentile spread inside each rung wider than the gap between rungs. Glassdoor&#8217;s 2026 figures put the third party risk analyst average at $97,702, with the 25th to 75th percentile running $78,360 to $122,820. The third party risk management analyst average sits at $110,003 across a $88,670 to $137,695 band. Senior analyst reaches $131,815, spanning $106,419 to $164,979.<\/p>\n<p>Above that, Salary.com puts the third party risk manager average at $133,083 within a $110,780 to $154,331 range. Now, here&#8217;s where it gets interesting. Read those two top rows together and a senior analyst at the 75th percentile out-earns the average manager (by more than $30,000, on these figures). Moving into management for the money alone is a poor trade, and people who make the step successfully take it for scope instead.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be honest about the India picture, because it is smaller. Glassdoor&#8217;s Bengaluru band for third party risk management analysts runs Rs 5 lakh to Rs 9 lakh a year at entry. That&#8217;s a fraction of the US average at the equivalent rung, and no framing makes the gap disappear. What it buys is the position: capability-centre work on US and EU programmes, the same SIG questionnaires, the same DORA register, and a track record that reads identically on a resume anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Now the projection everyone quotes, with the caveat it deserves. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has no occupation code for third-party risk, so the field borrows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/computer-and-information-technology\/information-security-analysts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information security analyst<\/a> series: a median wage of $124,910 as of May 2024, projected growth of 29% from 2024 to 2034, and roughly 16,000 openings a year. But those numbers describe a neighbouring occupation, not this one. Treat them as directional evidence that the surrounding market is expanding, and treat the 3,142 live Indian listings as the better proof of demand.<\/p>\n<p>What actually moves someone from analyst to manager? Not questionnaire volume, which is the mistake most often made here. Three things recur in the people who make the jump: owning the tiering methodology rather than applying it, maintaining the contract clause library that legal draws from, and being the named person who signs off the register submission. Each one converts an analyst from someone who completes assessments into someone who decides how assessments get made.<\/p>\n<p>Past manager, the ladder branches. Programme lead and head of supplier assurance are the direct continuations. Operational resilience has become a destination in its own right since DORA, and third-party governance roles sit inside CISO and chief risk officer organisations, where the work shifts from assessing suppliers to defending the programme to a regulator.<\/p>\n<p>Concentration risk is what makes that senior tier interesting. The registers of information collected under DORA do not only serve the entities filing them: the European Supervisory Authorities use them to designate critical ICT third-party service providers, which then fall under EU-level oversight directly. So the question stops being whether one supplier is secure and becomes whether four hundred financial entities are resting on the same three cloud providers. Answering that is a different job from filling in a questionnaire, and it is priced accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Two lateral moves are worth knowing about because they use the same evidence skills. Privacy is the closest, since vendor assessments already cover data flows and cross-border transfers, and a credential like <a href=\"https:\/\/skillarbitra.ge\/blog\/is-cipp-e-certification-worth-it-from-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIPP\/E<\/a> converts that into a specialism. And financial crime is the other, where the due diligence habit transfers cleanly into the work of an <a href=\"https:\/\/skillarbitra.ge\/blog\/how-to-become-an-aml-analyst\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AML analyst<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On remote work, the honest answer has two halves. The work is documentation-heavy, evidence-based and asynchronous, which is why it travels across borders as easily as most <a href=\"https:\/\/skillarbitra.ge\/blog\/remote-cybersecurity-jobs-indian-professionals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remote cybersecurity roles<\/a> do. But some regulated clients restrict where certain evidence may be handled or stored, and those contract clauses settle the question regardless of the employer&#8217;s own policy (they sit in the client agreement, not the job description, which is why nobody mentions them at interview). Ask about data residency terms before assuming a role is location-flexible.<\/p>\n<p>Which returns to where this started. The chain that ran from a file transfer product through 2,559 organisations to three separate regulatory regimes did not just create risk. 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}\n  .sa-ig-tprm-ladder .pay { margin-left: 0; }\n  .sa-ig-tprm-ladder .body { padding: 18px 16px 4px; }\n  .sa-ig-tprm-ladder .notes { padding: 12px 16px 16px; }\n  .sa-ig-tprm-ladder .branding { padding: 12px 16px; }\n}\n<\/style>\n\n  <div class=\"infographic\">\n\n    <div class=\"title-bar\">\n      <div class=\"ig-title\">The third party risk management ladder<\/div>\n      <div class=\"stamp\">Position as of 1 September 2026<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"body\">\n      <div class=\"ladder\">\n\n        <div class=\"rung r1\">\n          <div class=\"lvl\">1<\/div>\n          <div class=\"rung-body\">\n            <div class=\"rung-head\">\n              <div class=\"role\">Third party risk analyst<\/div>\n              <div class=\"pay\">$97,702<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"band\">25th to 75th percentile: $78,360 to $122,820<\/div>\n            <div class=\"owns\">Runs assessments. Sends the questionnaire, reads the evidence, logs the finding.<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"rung r2\">\n          <div class=\"lvl\">2<\/div>\n          <div class=\"rung-body\">\n            <div class=\"rung-head\">\n              <div class=\"role\">Third party risk management analyst<\/div>\n              <div class=\"pay\">$110,003<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"band\">25th to 75th percentile: $88,670 to $137,695<\/div>\n            <div class=\"owns\">Runs assessments and the remediation clock. Tier 1 suppliers land here.<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"rung r3\">\n          <div class=\"lvl\">3<\/div>\n          <div class=\"rung-body\">\n            <div class=\"rung-head\">\n              <div class=\"role\">Senior analyst<\/div>\n              <div class=\"pay\">$131,815<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"band\">25th to 75th percentile: $106,419 to $164,979<\/div>\n            <div class=\"owns\">Sets how assessments get made. Tiering methodology and contract clause library.<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"rung r4\">\n          <div class=\"lvl\">4<\/div>\n          <div class=\"rung-body\">\n            <div class=\"rung-head\">\n              <div class=\"role\">Third party risk manager<\/div>\n              <div class=\"pay\">$133,083<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"band\">25th to 75th percentile: $110,780 to $154,331<\/div>\n            <div class=\"owns\">Signs the register submission. Owns the programme, the headcount and the regulator.<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"callout\">\n        <div class=\"c-label\">The overlap worth noticing<\/div>\n        <div class=\"c-value\">A senior analyst at the 75th percentile ($164,979) out-earns the average manager ($133,083). The step up is bought with scope, not salary.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"india\">\n        <div class=\"i-label\">India entry band<\/div>\n        <div class=\"i-value\">Rs 5 lakh to Rs 9 lakh a year in Bengaluru, across 1,149 listed roles. Same questionnaires, same DORA register, same track record.<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"notes\">\n      <p>Sources: Glassdoor 2026 (analyst, third party risk management analyst, senior analyst and the India band); Salary.com 2026 (third party risk manager). US figures are averages shown with their 25th to 75th percentile ranges. The two currencies are separate scales and are not converted.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"branding\">\n      <div class=\"stamp-foot\">Third party risk management career path<\/div>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" 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alt=\"SkillArbitrage\">\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n<h2 id=\"frequently-asked-questions\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Can you enter third party risk management without a cybersecurity background?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes. Procurement, internal audit, contract review and compliance operations are all common entry routes, and listings ask for two to five years in any of them. The transferable skill is evidence discipline, not technical depth. Expect to learn the control frameworks on the job.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long does it take to move from third party risk analyst to manager?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roughly four to six years, tracking the experience thresholds the certifications use. The step depends less on time served than on scope: owning the tiering methodology, the clause library or the regulatory filing. Analysts who only complete assessments tend to stay at senior analyst.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the difference between third party risk management and vendor management?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vendor management runs the commercial relationship: contracts, pricing, service levels and performance. Third-party risk management assesses what could go wrong: security controls, resilience, concentration and regulatory exposure. The risk function can block an onboarding the vendor manager wants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does third party risk management require coding skills?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No. The role runs on questionnaires, audit reports, contracts and registers rather than code. Data handling helps at scale, particularly spreadsheet work and reporting from a GRC platform. Scripting is occasionally useful for inventory reconciliation, but is not a screening requirement.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"references\">References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2023\/06\/09\/2023-12340\/interagency-guidance-on-third-party-relationships-risk-management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships: Risk Management<\/a>, 88 FR 37920, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, FDIC and OCC, 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbi.org.in\/Scripts\/BS_ViewMasDirections.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Master Direction on Outsourcing of Information Technology Services<\/a>, Reserve Bank of India, notified 10 April 2023, effective 1 October 2023.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eiopa.europa.eu\/digital-operational-resilience-act-dora_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2022\/2554)<\/a>, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/csrc.nist.gov\/news\/2022\/c-scrm-guidance-nist-sp-800-161r1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NIST SP 800-161r1, Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations<\/a>, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2022.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/computer-and-information-technology\/information-security-analysts.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Occupational Outlook Handbook: Information Security Analysts<\/a>, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sharedassessments.org\/ctprp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CTPRP certification programme<\/a>, Shared Assessments.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<p><em>This article is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute professional, legal, financial or career advice. Verify current certification eligibility, salary data and regulatory obligations with the issuing body or a qualified professional before acting on them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third party risk management career path runs from vendor risk analyst to programme manager. 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