Podcast Episode 5: How to Monitor Third Parties Without Increasing Your Workload
In Owl Insights Podcast EP05, host Sjoerd Leemhuis, CEO & Founder of Owlin, sits down with Eduardo Zajbert Peña, Head of Product, to explore how organizations can scale third-party monitoring without overwhelming their teams.
Regulatory pressure on third-party risk is growing fast. From DORA and CSRD to the German Supply Chain Act, compliance requirements are expanding. At the same time, budgets are tight and teams are small. Consequently, organizations are being asked to do more with less.
Sjoerd and Eduardo explain why monitoring only a subset of third parties creates dangerous blind spots. Even low-risk vendors can expose organizations to data breaches, sanctions violations, or reputational harm through ESG issues like labor practices. No third party is truly without risk.
The solution lies in smarter tooling. Owlin groups multiple signals, news articles, sanctions hits, PEP list updates, into concise events, dramatically reducing the volume of information analysts need to process. Each event receives an impact score from 0 to 100. Additionally, companies are scored across risk categories, or “lenses,” and assigned an overall high, medium, or low classification.
Moreover, the platform offers multiple levels of depth. Analysts can start from a simple risk-level change, read a one-paragraph summary, then drill down into individual events and sources as needed. As a result, teams can monitor entire third-party portfolios, not just the high-risk segment, without experiencing alert fatigue.
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About the podcast Owl Insights
Owl Insights is where risk intelligence meets real talk. We sit down with the people driving change in risk management to discuss the tools, trends, and tactics that matter most right now. Whether it’s AI pushing boundaries, new regulations raising the stakes, or partnerships solving old problems in new ways, we explore how organizations can move faster and smarter in a world where risk never stands still.
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Want to see how Owlin can help you monitor your entire third-party portfolio without scaling your headcount? We’d love to show you. Reach out to our team or book a demo to explore how smarter risk intelligence can work for your organization.
