
Product Update
Clarative has a new look, and it's not just about aesthetics
We've redesigned Clarative from the ground up—and while you'll notice the fresh interface right away, the real story is what's happening beneath the surface, and why we made the change.
Regina Yan
October 30, 2025

Operational Risk
Risk Management
What today’s AWS outage reveals about the rest of your vendors
Today's AWS us-east-1 outage affected a significant portion of the tech ecosystem, and the cascading failures we observed through our continuous vendor performance monitoring revealed something important about how concentration risk actually works in modern vendor portfolios.
Tony DiPadova
October 20, 2025

Operational Risk
Beyond SLAs: Why Service Level Agreements Don't Guarantee Service Level Reality
Your vendor's SLA promises 99.9% uptime, but your users are experiencing frequent issues. Discover why the gap between contractual commitments and actual performance is wider than most organizations realize and what you can do about it.
Chris Sallen
October 10, 2025

Operational Risk
Risk Management
Why Security Isn't Enough: The Evolution of Third-Party Risk
The CrowdStrike outage grounded planes and shut down hospitals. This didn’t happen because of a security breach; it happened because of a bad software update. This global outage exposed the dangerous blind spot in security-focused TPRM programs and showed why operational risk management is just as critical as cybersecurity assessment.
Nick Gavin
October 9, 2025

Operational Risk
Guide
How to Negotiate SLAs That Actually Protect Your Business
Most SLAs look impressive on paper but fail when you need them most. Our team has read hundreds of SLAs so that you don’t have to. Learn how to negotiate service level agreements that go beyond uptime percentages to include meaningful metrics, enforceable remedies, and the transparency mechanisms that make vendors accountable.
Tony DiPadova
October 6, 2025

DORA
Risk Management
Continuous Vendor Monitoring: The Only Way to Manage Real Risk
Annual vendor assessments made sense when technology changed slowly and vendor ecosystems were small. But in today's world of rapid change and deep dependencies, point-in-time reviews create a dangerous illusion of control while leaving organizations blind to the risks that matter most.
Tony DiPadova
October 2, 2025

Product Update
Synthetic Monitoring: A Continuous Pulse on Vendors
Clarative's Synthetic Monitoring provides continuous, proactive vendor oversight by testing availability, latency, and response validation in real-time, detecting issues before they're officially reported and enabling businesses to stay ahead of vendor-related disruptions.
Jacob Crofts
July 15, 2025

Product Update
Clarative introduces One-Click Compliance Reporting
Clarative's One-Click Compliance Reporting automates vendor compliance reporting by combining real-time monitoring data with SLA tracking and violation calculations, eliminating weeks of manual work for both regulatory compliance and internal vendor management.
Jason Kim, Steve Jiang
July 8, 2025

DORA
Operational Risk
How Clarative’s customers automated DORA compliance
Discover how Clarative's customers are transforming DORA compliance from a manual, time-consuming process into an automated system through contract clause extraction, intelligent SLA organization, and continuous vendor monitoring.
Tony DiPadova
May 8, 2025

DORA
You know your vendors… but do you know about theirs? 
DORA's new subcontracting RTS requirements will force financial institutions to monitor not just their direct vendors (third parties) but also their vendors' vendors (fourth parties), creating new compliance and operational challenges that require advanced monitoring capabilities.
Chris Sallen
April 15, 2025

Operational Risk
Do you know how your vendors are performing?
Discover how Clarative's continuous monitoring capabilities—including public outage tracking, synthetic monitoring, and industry intelligence—provide comprehensive vendor performance visibility and automatically connect incidents to your contract SLAs for better risk management.
Nick Gavin
February 2, 2025
