Use Case

Real-Time Visibility Into Third-Party Software Risk

Third-party software is part of your attack surface, but your current tools can't see it. Spektion shows how third-party software behaves in your environment, beyond CVEs and vendor questionnaires.

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Why Vulnerability Management and Third-Party Risk Management Miss Software Risk

Vulnerability Management (VM) and Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) tools are useful, but they only cover part of the picture. Vulnerability Management tools stop at known CVEs. Third-Party Risk tools stop at questionnaires and certifications. Neither shows how third-party software behaves in your environment, where the real risk lives.

Both leave major gaps

Pre-CVE exploits attackers use long before disclosure
Legacy, internal, and AI-generated tools that will never receive CVEs
Silent updates and hidden dependencies that slip past security review

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What’s missing in your VM strategy?

Those Gaps Leave You Exposed

of organizations with poor third-party visibility suffered a breach in the past year

of breaches in 2025 involved third-party software

of security leaders are concerned about third-party component risk

Runtime Visibility Into Third-Party Software Risk Closes the Gap

Spektion closes the gap with runtime visibility into third-party software behavior. We help you assess third-party software risk by showing what’s exploitable right now, with evidence from your environment, so your vulnerability management and third-party risk programs finally have the data they’ve been missing.

See Spektion detect risk in live software

How Runtime Visibility Reduces Risk

1. Discover what's running

‍Build a live inventory, including shadow and unmanaged tools.

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2. Detect risky behavior

‍Spot privilege escalation, injection, hijacked updaters, and insecure network activity.

3. Score with evidence

Prioritize with runtime data enriched by CVE, CWE, ATT&CK, and threat intel.

Table showing two Windows OS versions v12.1.0.0 and v24.67.34.12 with runtime score F, highest CVSS scores 9.6 and 9.5, and counts of critical and high vulnerabilities.

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4. Apply compensating controls to proactively address risk

Contain unpatchable risk and reduce exposure in real time.

Use Cases Across the Software Lifecycle

Spektion provides value at every stage of software adoption and use:

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POC & Vendor Evaluation. Catch insecure behaviors before you sign a contract and negotiate from a position of runtime evidence.

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Continuous Monitoring. Detect risks introduced by silent updates, accelerated AI-driven releases, or supply chain compromises.

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Vendor Breach Response. Identify your blast radius instantly and apply compensating controls in minutes.

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Decommissioning. Verify removal and close out lingering exposures with runtime proof.

Compliance as a Byproduct

Audit requirements don’t go away, but Spektion makes compliance easier by turning runtime evidence into audit-ready data.

With Spektion, you get:

A continuously updated software register

Change-of-risk alerts that prove ongoing monitoring

Runtime logs to support incident response and vendor offboarding

Evidence you can hand directly to auditors for DORA, PCI DSS, GLBA, and more

Chart showing overall risk score worsening by 6% in the last 30 days with a grade F and timeline from June 30 to July 15.

Compliance isn’t why leaders choose Spektion. It’s what happens naturally when runtime evidence powers your program.

Why Security Leaders Choose Spektion

Third-party software risk has lived between silos for too long, until now.

Old way

VM leaders only see risk when a CVE exists

TPRM leaders rely on questionnaires and certifications

CISOs manage silos and incomplete inventories

With Spektion

VM leaders get visibility into risky behaviors even without CVEs

TPRM leaders also validate third-party software with runtime evidence

CISOs get a unified, real-time view of third-party software risk

Spektion brings these perspectives together with a single source of runtime evidence.

The impact: Organizations using runtime visibility reduce exploitable exposures by double digits in weeks, cutting both operational risk and wasted patching effort.