Solution Overviews

Modern TPRM Platform vs. Assessment Exchange Network

At first glance, VISO TRUST and Conveyor both touch on vendor risk assessments, but they approach the problem from very different angles.

VISO TRUST is an enterprise third-party risk management platform that automates vendor onboarding, evidence collection, continuous monitoring, lifecycle orchestration, and audit-ready reporting –  all in a single system designed for scale and defensible risk decisions.

Conveyor (formerly StandardFusion Exchange) is an assessment exchange network, designed to reduce the effort of collecting and sharing vendor questionnaires by enabling vendors to publish reusable security profiles for customers to request.

In short:

  • VISO TRUST operationalizes risk intelligence end-to-end.
  • Conveyor streamlines questionnaire reuse.

This distinction becomes critical as programs grow in scale, complexity, and expectation for continuous assurance rather than periodic snapshots.


Core Capability Comparison

CapabilityVISO TRUSTConveyor
Vendor onboarding & lifecycle workflowsFull automationNot core
AI-enabled assessmentsRapid, guided assessment executionRelies on static questionnaires
Reusable vendor intelligenceCentral repository of validated dataShared assessment exchange
Continuous monitoringAlways-on risk signals across vendorsNot native
Assessment delivery & trackingAutomated workflows with remindersRequest/feedback loop
Evidence-backed assuranceTraceable, audit-ready outputsLimited to shared answers
Nth-party visibilityYesNo
Board-ready reportingYesLimited
Vendor friction reductionDesigned for ease & fast responsesQuestionnaire reuse helps

Strategic Difference

  1. Risk Intelligence vs. Questionnaire Exchange

Conveyor reduces repeated survey effort by letting vendors publish and share completed questionnaires. This helps teams avoid sending the same survey multiple times, but it does not replace the fundamental need to gather up-to-date risk intelligence.

VISO TRUST removes that bottleneck by:

  • AI-enabled assessment execution: teams get fast, accurate vendor risk evaluations instead of waiting for vendors to fill static forms.
  • Lifecycle automation: onboarding, reassessments, remediation, and offboarding are no longer manual processes.
  1. Continuous Assurance vs. Periodic Snapshots

With Conveyor, risk visibility is tied to when a vendor uploads or updates a questionnaire. It’s still a snapshot in time.

With VISO TRUST:

  • Continuous monitoring detects changes between assessments.
  • Changes automatically trigger reassessments or evidence requests.
  • Risk intelligence is always fresh, not dependent on annual refresh cycles.
  1. Operational Scale vs. Operational Maintenance

Conveyor helps with coordination, not orchestration.
 

Security teams still manually manage:

  • Who needs which questionnaires
  • When a vendor update is required
  • How to follow up on missing, incomplete, or stale responses
  • Reporting and risk validation

VISO TRUST automates the entire lifecycle, which significantly reduces manual overhead:

  • Automated scheduling and follow-ups
  • Triggered reassessments based on real risk signals
  • Dashboards and exec reporting without spreadsheet patchwork

This is a make-vs-maintain distinction:

  • Conveyor helps maintain a questionnaire program.
  • VISO TRUST helps enterprises modernize and scale a risk program.
  1. Vendor Experience for Better Completion

Both platforms reduce friction, but in different ways:

Conveyor gives vendors a place to publish completed profiles so customers can request them.

VISO TRUST guides vendors through structured, minimal-friction assessments, reduces repetitive requests by reusing prior evidence, and matches signals to vendor relationships automatically, resulting in:

  • Higher response rates
  • Faster turnaround
  • Less chasing from your team

Enterprise Impact Summary

When Conveyor may suffice

  • You have a relatively small vendor ecosystem
  • Your program is checklist/compliance-centric
  • You are mainly replacing email coordination with a shared exchange
  • You don’t yet need continuous monitoring or lifecycle orchestration

When organizations prefer VISO TRUST

  • You need fast, defensible risk decisions
  • You manage thousands of vendors and nth-party relationships
  • You want continuous assurance, not point-in-time snapshots
  • You want to reduce operational headcount growth
  • You need audit-ready evidence and enterprise reporting
  • You want risk signals tied to business context