deterrence design

Vendor Behavior Signals & Deterrent Responses

by Shimon|28 January 202601 February 2026|Embedded GRC, GRC Economics, Practice & Playbooks

Vendor risk rarely fails because controls are absent. It fails because behavior is misread, tolerated too long, or escalated too late. Most third-party risk programs are built to assess artifacts—policies, reports, attestations—while the real signal lives in how vendors respond...

The Vendor Risk Gameboard: Who Moves First?

by Shimon|05 December 202501 February 2026|Embedded GRC, GRC Economics, Models in the Wild, Thinking Like an Economist

Vendor risk is typically framed as a procedural exercise—an administrative ritual tucked behind procurement, a compliance checkpoint inserted between pricing and contract, or a regulatory safeguard meant to guarantee that due diligence has been performed. But anyone who has ever...