Gain additional vendor insights with Enhanced Illumination

Enhanced Illumination and Automatic Vendor Detection are separate paid features that you can use together. To learn more, talk to your Customer Success Manager.

If you use Automatic Vendor Detection to track your third- and fourth-party vendor connections, you can enrich your vendor insights with Enhanced Illumination. This add-in feature provides visibility into:

• More third- and fourth-party vendor connections
• Software products, libraries, languages and other technologies that vendors use
• Searchable vendor connections across any Portfolio

How Enhanced Illumination expands Automatic Vendor Detection

Automatic Vendor Detection sources its data from SecurityScorecard's recurring domain scans and analysis of organizations' website content. When a site loads content from third parties, we classify them as fourth parties and establish connections. 

Enhanced Illumination supplements this information with data from other sources available on the internet:

• Commerce data
• Contracts
• Security Exchange Commission (SEC) Form 10-Q and 10-K filings
• Data from the Department of Defense (DoD) Federal Logistics Information System (FLIS)
• Job postings (For example, a posting lists proficiency with a software product as a requirement.)
• Posted resumes(For example, a resume shows that a person worked for a vendor organization and used a software product there.)
• Product data

See Enhanced Illumination data in a Scorecard

Enhanced Illumination sources appear in the Linking method column of Automatic Vendor Detection.

Tip: Learn more about using Automatic Vendor Detection.

Go to the Vendor Detection tab in any Scorecard. 

To see only Enhanced Illumination sources for vendor connections, select the Linking method filter above the connections table,and then select Enhanced Illumination.

To see the information source, hover over the question mark icon for any Enhanced Illumination linking method.

To see the products that any vendor uses, click the number in the Products used column.

To find specific products faster:

• Click a letter at the top of the search results and see all products that start with that letter.
• Start typing the name of a product.

See Enhanced Illumination data across a Portfolio

Go to a Portfolio.

To see vendor connections for any listed organization, click the number in the  Portfolio Connections column of the table.

Click the name of any listed connection to see its Scorecard.

To find specific connections faster:

• Click a letter at the top of the search results and see all connections that start with that letter.
• Start typing the name of an organization.

To see the products that an organization in the Portfolio uses, click the number in the Products Used column.

To find specific products faster:

• Click a letter at the top of the search results and see all products that start with that letter.
• Start typing the name of a product.

Tip: You also can find third parties and products used across your Portfolio using the top-level Portfolio search.