NetRise Provenance for Third-Party Risk

The Challenge

Can You Trust Software You Can’t Verify?

Even with Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) requirements, vendor questionnaires, and security reports, critical questions remain unanswered.

Do you know who actually writes and maintains the open-source and third-party components inside the software that runs the products you procure?

Can you identify risk associated with components maintained by malicious contributors, organizations, or countries, or with weak repository health or security practices?

Are you aware that high-risk individuals contribute to software that’s blindly used by vendors, often leading to breaches such as XZ Utils?

These gaps exist because many third-party risk programs rely on incomplete data.

SBOMs describe what is inside the software, but not who contributes to it nor whether those projects follow basic security practices.

Vendor disclosures are self-reported and are unaware of how the third-party software they use is built or secured.

Layers of reused software and code sharing obscure origin increase the impact when something goes wrong.

As a result, CISOs and risk leaders remain accountable for software risk without a clear, independent view into who is actually behind the software they approve.

Why You Need Provenance Intelligence

Your vendors increasingly rely on open-source software to deliver their products. They often do not vet that third-party code for risk associated with its contributors. NetRise Provenance links third-party packages and repos to contributors, organizations, and countries, combining advisories, repository health signals, and risk intelligence to highlight risky third-party software. A built-in policy engine turns these signals into enforceable rules for vendor reviews, onboarding, and renewals.

THE SOLUTION

NetRise Provenance: Trust Intelligence for Enterprise Risk Decisions

NetRise Provenance links components to projects, contributors, organizations, and countries, combining advisories, basic indicators of project security practices, and risk intelligence to highlight risky third-party software so third-party risk reviews, onboarding, and renewals rely on verifiable evidence instead of self-reported claims.

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Outcomes for CISOs and Third-Party Risk Teams with NetRise Provenance

Verify the real source of software
Trace components back to their original source projects so you can confirm where the software you buy actually comes from and assess associated risk .
Understand who you are trusting
Open-source software contributors are not your vendors’ employees. See the people and locations where software originates to understand how third-party risk is distributed.
Detect high-risk contributors and entities
Use advisories, geolocation, and threat intelligence to flag components linked to known higher-risk contributors, organizations, or countries before they reach your infrastructure.
Make defensible, risk-based decisions
Use repository health and security signals—such as activity, maintainer concentration, update habits, and signing key changes—to support risk-based evaluations of vendor software.

Product Overview

Single Source of Truth
Give CISOs and risk teams one place to see who builds the software you depend on—and enforce consistent software trust policies across vendors.
Source and Relationship Mapping
Connect software components back to their original projects and see which products from which vendors rely on them, so you can mitigate impact when incidents occur.
Maintainer and Organization Attribution
Link software to real people and organizations, including country-level footprint, to support third-party and geographic risk analysis.
Policy-Driven Risk Control
Highlight and enforce rules against higher-risk maintainers, organizations, or projects using advisories, provenance, and repository health signals.

Why NetRise Provenance Stands Apart

Independent Source of Truth
Identify software origin and contributors to open-source software your vendors use.
Attribution You Can Act On
Understand who maintains critical code and where trust is concentrated.
High-Risk Contributor Detection
Highlight components linked to high-risk maintainers, organizations, or countries using advisories and threat intelligence.
Defensible Risk Evidence
Support audits, regulatory inquiries, and board-level discussions with software-derived proof.

Common Challenges NetRise Provenance Solves

Challenge

Risk associated with open-source software supplied by vendors

How NetRise Provenance Helps

Independently links components to original source projects and verifies contributors so you are not relying on blind trust.

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Inadequate evidence for third-party risk reviews

How NetRise Provenance Helps

Provides contributor, organization, and country information, combined with threat intelligence, to strengthen due diligence.

Challenge

Unclear blast radius during supply chain incidents

How NetRise Provenance Helps

Shows affected components and products when a risky library, project, or maintainer is identified to prioritize remediation.

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Difficulty assessing geopolitical risk

How NetRise Provenance Helps

Surfaces contributor, organizational, and country-level signals so teams can identify where geopolitical risk concentrates.

Who’s Inside Your Software?

Trust software with evidence. NetRise Provenance gives CISOs and third-party risk teams the visibility needed to make confident software procurement decisions.

Download the Solution Brief

NetRise Provenance for Third-Party Risk

Can You Trust Software You Can’t Verify?

As a result, CISOs and risk leaders remain accountable for software risk without a clear, independent view into who is actually behind the software they approve.

Why You Need Provenance Intelligence

NetRise Provenance: Trust Intelligence for Enterprise Risk Decisions

Verify the real source of software

Understand who you are trusting

Detect high-risk contributors and entities

Make defensible, risk-based decisions

Single Source of Truth

Source and Relationship Mapping

Maintainer and Organization Attribution

Policy-Driven Risk Control

Independent Source of Truth

Attribution You Can Act On

High-Risk Contributor Detection

Defensible Risk Evidence

Common Challenges NetRise Provenance Solves

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How NetRise Provenance Helps

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How NetRise Provenance Helps

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How NetRise Provenance Helps

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