Free teaching decks from The Value Chain Risk Institute. Each one explains one idea for people new to it, with speaker notes, and ends with something you can do on Monday. Present them in your browser or download the PDF.
Third-Party Risk 101: Why Vendor Questionnaires Fail
What third-party risk is, why spreadsheet questionnaires miss it, and what better looks like.
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The ingredient label for software: what is in one, the two formats, and what to ask your vendors.
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The EU Cyber Resilience Act in 10 Minutes
What the CRA covers, what it requires, the key dates, and what to do now.
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The problem The Value Chain Risk Institute exists to fix, and the open tools it ships.
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How the Beacon Collector Works
From a vendor’s own tools to a sealed, scored evidence package a buyer can check, with the evidence never leaving the vendor’s machines.
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Bills of materials for AI systems: models, data, prompts, tools and memory.
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What’s in an AI Agent? The Agent Constellation
An agent is many parts that change together. Why you inventory them as one unit.
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Is Your Agent Still the Agent You Approved?
Agent manifests, drift and reconciliation: checking a running agent against what was approved.
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AI Cognitive Security 101: When the Attack Is Words
Prompt injection, why it is hard, and the defenses that actually help.
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Shor’s algorithm worked by hand on the number 15, and why post-quantum crypto is different.
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Decks by Joshua Marpet and Cairn Viktor. Suggestions or a topic you want covered: joshua.marpet@valuechainrisk.org.