​Your riskiest vendor is the one you haven't looked at

​Thursday, September 17, 2026

​11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

​Michael Jordan's Steakhouse, 505 N Michigan Ave, Chicago

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​If you can name your top 10 vendors but can't tell me when you last verified their controls, this lunch was built for you.

​Fifteen security leaders from across the Chicago area. Ninety minutes. Real operational stories. A working session on what separates a TPRM program that's genuinely protecting the business from one that only looks like it is.

​And a very good steak.

​Why attend?

• ​Score your program live and know exactly where your program sits: Five questions, two minutes, one honest number from Reactive to Exemplary

• ​Understand what right-sized TPRM actually looks like — what to keep in-house, what to hand off, and why

• ​A peer conversation with 15 other Chicago-area security leaders who own the same problem

​What you will leave with

• ​A one-page TPRM self-assessment you can run on your own program that afternoon

• ​The full before-and-after story deck: how one team went from learning about a vendor breach on the news to catching the next one before it happened

• ​A free, personalized risk report on your top 3 vendors

• ​A clear answer to "what should I be doing differently?, the one thing your score says to fix first

​Who is this for?

​CISOs, security directors, and GRC / TPRM leaders at diverse organisations in the Chicago area. Bring the person who owns vendor assessments — they'll thank you.

​15 seats. If you received this invitation, your seat is reserved until it's taken.

​Hosted by:

​Novacoast: For 25+ years, Novacoast has built and managed cybersecurity programs for organizations across financial services, healthcare, and beyond — with 24×7 SOC operations in the US and UK. Assessments, engineering, managed services: one team, full program coverage.

​UpGuard: UpGuard is the AI-powered platform for Third Party Risk Management — continuous vendor monitoring, automated assessments, and real-time risk scoring. Trusted by 53,000+ companies. G2 Leader in TPRM.

​Two teams. One table. The platform and the people who run it.