NAA Member News: Secure Assured – The groundbreaking new platform to assess, manage and respond to cyber risk across your global supply chain
Designed and built in the UK by a team of former national security engineers, the people behind Parker Neal.
Most manufacturers can see their Tier 1 suppliers. Almost none can see Tier 2 or 3, where a growing share of automotive cyber incidents actually start. Secure Assured gives you one platform to close that gap, from first assessment through to incident response.
Why it matters for automotive: a typical OEM programme runs through thousands of Tier 2 and 3 suppliers, and a single compromised parts supplier several tiers down can halt a production line just as fast as a Tier 1 can. It takes an average of 267 days to identify and contain a supply chain attack once it starts. Secure Assured is built to shorten that.
Three capabilities, one platform
Assess: Turn a subjective supplier questionnaire into an objective, evidenced score.
- Guided self-assessment against the Secure Assured Control Framework, mapped to ISO 27001, NIST and NCSC CAF, producing a single Cyber Security Maturity Score.
- Threat intelligence scan of a supplier’s external infrastructure, flagging exposure to domain spoofing and other open-source risks.
- Certifications and insurance, logged in one place, so cover and accreditation feed directly into overall posture.
- Evidence-based repositories that back up every score with real documentation, not a self-reported number.
- Supplier invitations to complete their own assessment and scoring, at every tier.
Manage: Stay on top of risk as it changes, instead of re-running the same audit once a year.
- A live map of the supply chain, showing every supplier’s risk score, what they provide, and how their posture is trending.
- Action plans built directly from each supplier’s current maturity, so gaps come with a next step attached.
- Ongoing threat monitoring, including dark web and vulnerability alerts as new risks surface.
- A security awareness tool that nudges staff away from risky moments in real time, like avoiding clicking a suspicious link.
- Board-ready reporting dashboards and a policy library to close governance gaps quickly.
Respond: Because the real question isn’t if an incident happens, it’s how fast you can coordinate once it does.
- Incident management to create, triage and track every cyber incident in one record.
- An out-of-band Digital War Room that stays live even when your own systems are compromised, bringing your team and your suppliers together into one coordinated space.
- Rapid digital forensics, so a self-serve investigation takes minutes, not days.
- A direct link to ICO breach reporting, built into the response flow.
- A structured post-incident report, ready to share internally or with a regulator.
Secure Assured launches early October. Follow the page now to see it take shape before then.
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