Webinar # Beyond the Findings: A Practical Playbook for Higher Education Vendor Risk ## Register Get a tactical breakdown of the biggest third-party challenges surfaced in UpGuard’s 2026 higher education research—and learn exactly how to solve them. Thanks for attending Beyond the Findings: A Practical Playbook for Higher Education Vendor Risk! We'll see you at our next event. You can relive the webinar anytime, right here. ## Speakers ### Letecia Allen Senior Product Marketing Manager ### Greg Pollock Director, Research and Insights ### ## Event Information UpGuard’s 2026 higher education research report revealed a vendor ecosystem defined by scale, shared suppliers, decentralised purchasing and changing risk between formal review cycles. In this follow-on webinar, we’ll turn the report’s findings into a practical playbook for managing higher education’s shared vendor risk challenges. We’ll cover how to: * **Manage critical shared vendors: **Use existing evidence, peer insight and continuous monitoring to manage widely adopted platforms more efficiently. * **Tame the long tail:** Right-size assessments for niche, departmental and research tools based on exposure and criticality. * **Make reassessments matter: **Focus reviews on the changes that actually affect risk, from new integrations and AI features to unresolved deferrals. * **Act between assessment cycles:** Build playbooks for supplier breaches, zero-days, credential leaks, fourth-party exposure and regulatory changes. Attendees will leave with a clearer playbook for managing higher education third-party risk in a way that is risk-based, scalable and grounded in the realities of institutional environments. ‍ Get a tactical breakdown of the biggest third-party challenges surfaced in UpGuard’s 2026 higher education research—and learn exactly how to solve them. ## Speakers ### Letecia Allen Senior Product Marketing Manager ### Greg Pollock Director, Research and Insights ### ## Event Information UpGuard’s 2026 higher education research report revealed a vendor ecosystem defined by scale, shared suppliers, decentralised purchasing and changing risk between formal review cycles. In this follow-on webinar, we’ll turn the report’s findings into a practical playbook for managing higher education’s shared vendor risk challenges. We’ll cover how to: * **Manage critical shared vendors: **Use existing evidence, peer insight and continuous monitoring to manage widely adopted platforms more efficiently. * **Tame the long tail:** Right-size assessments for niche, departmental and research tools based on exposure and criticality. * **Make reassessments matter: **Focus reviews on the changes that actually affect risk, from new integrations and AI features to unresolved deferrals. * **Act between assessment cycles:** Build playbooks for supplier breaches, zero-days, credential leaks, fourth-party exposure and regulatory changes. Attendees will leave with a clearer playbook for managing higher education third-party risk in a way that is risk-based, scalable and grounded in the realities of institutional environments. ‍ Get a tactical breakdown of the biggest third-party challenges surfaced in UpGuard’s 2026 higher education research—and learn exactly how to solve them. Thanks for attending Beyond the Findings: A Practical Playbook for Higher Education Vendor Risk! We'll see you at our next event. You can relive the webinar anytime, right here. ## Speakers ### Letecia Allen Senior Product Marketing Manager ### Greg Pollock Director, Research and Insights ### ## Event Information UpGuard’s 2026 higher education research report revealed a vendor ecosystem defined by scale, shared suppliers, decentralised purchasing and changing risk between formal review cycles. In this follow-on webinar, we’ll turn the report’s findings into a practical playbook for managing higher education’s shared vendor risk challenges. We’ll cover how to: * **Manage critical shared vendors: **Use existing evidence, peer insight and continuous monitoring to manage widely adopted platforms more efficiently. * **Tame the long tail:** Right-size assessments for niche, departmental and research tools based on exposure and criticality. * **Make reassessments matter: **Focus reviews on the changes that actually affect risk, from new integrations and AI features to unresolved deferrals. * **Act between assessment cycles:** Build playbooks for supplier breaches, zero-days, credential leaks, fourth-party exposure and regulatory changes. Attendees will leave with a clearer playbook for managing higher education third-party risk in a way that is risk-based, scalable and grounded in the realities of institutional environments. ‍ Experience superior visibility and a simpler approach to cyber risk management [Get a demo](/contact-sales) [Free trial](/demo)