3filers, current period
1the period before
6controls it touches
6frameworks
The long view
Filings containing this phrase, every month since 2008. The last
point is the current month and is still filling, so it always looks lower than it will be.
2008
peak 7 in November 2023
2026
Who disclosed it
From SEC full-text search over 8-K filings. Every row links to the filing itself.
| Company | Form | Filed | |
|---|
| CS Disco, Inc. LAW | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
| PATHWARD FINANCIAL, INC. CASH | 8-K | 2026-07-22 | filing |
| ServiceNow, Inc. NOW | 8-K | 2026-07-22 | filing |
The full search on EDGAR
How it actually arrives
An 8-K's meaning is in its item number, not its text. These are the items the filings
containing this phrase were filed under. The first group is something that happened to the
company. The second is the phrase turning up in the ordinary course of reporting, most often in
an earnings release, which is a very different thing and is usually the larger number.
| Filed because something happened |
Companies |
|---|
| Director or officer departure Item 5.02 | 1 |
| Other material event Item 8.01 | 1 |
| Mentioned in routine reporting |
Companies |
|---|
| Financial statements and exhibits Item 9.01 | 12 |
| Regulation FD disclosure Item 7.01 | 8 |
| Results of operations, the earnings release Item 2.02 | 7 |
| Entry into a material agreement Item 1.01 | 2 |
This is why a headline count on its own overstates the case.
Where the routine number dominates, the phrase is being tracked as language rather than as
events.
Which industries file it
Companies grouped by the industry classification on their own filing. A count, not a
survey.
| Industry | | Companies |
|---|
| Banking | | 6 |
| Software and IT services | | 3 |
| Holding and investment offices | | 1 |
| Insurance | | 1 |
| Securities and investment | | 1 |
| Utilities | | 1 |
What it obligates
Our corpus holds 6 controls across
6 frameworks whose text speaks to this. Not a judgement:
these controls say so, and each is one lookup from its source document. Ordered by how much each
framework has to say about it, so the one that will cost you the most work is first. Every name
opens that framework in the corpus.
What an auditor will ask you to produce
The artefacts named on those controls, most frequently cited first.
- TPRM policy
- Vendor inventory
- Due diligence files
- SOC 2 reports
- Assessment of third-party cyber risk
- Reflection of third-party risk in contracts and the risk register
- Monitoring of significant third parties
- IMO 5 functions to NIST CSF v2.0 6-function (incl Govern) mapping + cross-reference matrix
How it usually fails
Recorded when each control was verified against its source. This is where programmes
that think they are covered turn out not to be.
- Third party inventory is incomplete and excludes fourth party dependencies
- Due diligence is performed at onboarding but not refreshed periodically
- Vendor risk tiering criteria are subjective and not consistently applied
- Right to audit clauses are present but not exercised
- Third-party risk not assessed
- Not reflected in contracts
Where this comes from
The left half is public record: SEC full-text search over 8-K filings, counted across a
7 day window against the equivalent window before it. You can check
every row.
The right half is ours: 723 frameworks and
20,473 controls, 531 of those frameworks verified against
their source documents, with the auditor evidence and common failure modes recorded control by
control. Controls appear here because their own text names this term.
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