# START Vendor Risk Management Reviews **Vendor:** Independent Security Evaluators **Category:** [Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/third-party-supplier-risk-management) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 2 ## About START Vendor Risk Management Organize and automate your TPRM or VRM program even if you are managing thousands of partners with a very small team. Our implementation team helps you get up and running quickly. Protect your company from third-party data breaches, uncover potential vendor risks, and accelerate remediations with clear steps. Leave spreadsheets, emails, and manual follow ups in the past. It's time to switch to continuously improved, up-to-date vendor data to reduce risk and stay in control. ## START Vendor Risk Management Reviews ### 1. Easy to use + great level of service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2022 **What do you like best about START Vendor Risk Management?** The START platform has been leveraged by our team for just over 2 years. It's been tailored to our program and has allowed us to automate in areas where we weren't before. The START team has been open to our ideas and suggestions for areas of improvement. They're quick to help resolve urgent issues and are great at keeping an open line of communication. As an Admin, the platform is easy to use and configure. **What do you dislike about START Vendor Risk Management?** - There are some limitations regarding configuration and ability to customize. Would love to see Admins have more capability to make updates/configure things from within the UI. - Inconsistencies between the Site Security and Application Security modules - Inconsistences with features being enabled in one area of the platform but not all areas where it seems applicable (an example of this assessment questionnaire can be sent back to the individual(s) for edits, however, that capability does not exist for all questionnaires) Areas of improvement include: - Have to rely on the START team to update/apply weighting to intake questionnaire, change statuses, etc. - Unable to define and build custom workflows as an Admin from within the UI - Unable to define triggers for automated email notifications (they're pre-defined) - Unable to customize views at a user/role level (i.e. adding removing columns when viewing the Vendor Inventory, etc.) - Unable to add custom fields to any view (can add custom fields, however, there are a lot of limitations in this space) - Unable to customize aspects of the intake questionnaire - Unable to limit visibility to business users as it relates to the vendor inventory (i.e. would like to have the ability to determine if a business user is only able to view/access a record for which they submitted a request for; additionally would like to be able to give a business user a profile overview limiting what information they can view, allowing them the ability to request elevated access if needed) - Mass system of notifications (allowing us to easily send email notifications to our entire vendor inventory or a sub-set) **What problems is START Vendor Risk Management solving and how is that benefiting you?** START is looking at improving the UX/UI, as well as adding features/capabilities such as: - Any time commenting allowing our teams to communicate with the vendor and internally all within the platform - Updated dashboards - Ability to define/save filtering parameters within the various inventory views at a user level - Parent record summarizing child records (i.e. assessment status, remediation items, etc) - Ability to have multiple assessment report templates ### 2. START- great platform to improve collaboration with vendors and reduce risks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2022 **What do you like best about START Vendor Risk Management?** The ability to have a central portal for he assessment team to go about their business while allowing suppliers/business partners their instance to work out of, is great. The UX for all involved is far more excellent than other seasoned competitors. **What do you dislike about START Vendor Risk Management?** We would like to see more back end configuration available within the UI, but the team is great to work with and have quick turn arounds for requests we submit. **What problems is START Vendor Risk Management solving and how is that benefiting you?** START facilitated taking our program from the conceptual phase to full deployment across our enterprise. They are a great partner and continuously hear out suggestions for platform improvements. - [View START Vendor Risk Management pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/start-vendor-risk-management/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-29+18%3A32%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=09868c19-cd19-4f2a-998e-edc7dc6f9f3c&secure%5Btoken%5D=83cc7c9de4c7972260640971b595ad6843e3db1e84046b2857fe679f70d8e142&format=llm_user) ## START Vendor Risk Management Features **Risk Assessment** - Scoring - AI **Risk Control** - Reviews - Policies - Workflows **Monitoring** - Vendor Performance - Notifications - Oversight **Reporting** - Templates - Centralized Data - 360 View **Agentic AI - Third Party & Supplier Risk Management** - Adaptive Learning - Decision Making ## Top START Vendor Risk Management Alternatives - [Vendor Risk](https://www.g2.com/products/vendor-risk/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (706 reviews) - [Vanta](https://www.g2.com/products/vanta/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (2,424 reviews) - [Optro](https://www.g2.com/products/optro/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,584 reviews)