vendor (or supplier)
nounid
163483·updated Aug 30, 2026candidate
An individual or business (and its employees) that is engaged to provide goods or services to the entity. Depending on the services provided (for example, if the vendor operates certain controls on behalf of the entity that are necessary to achieve the entity's objectives), it also might be a service provider.
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Organization85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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unclassified
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unclassified
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Framework definitions
- §1 · glossary
- An individual or business (and its employees) that is engaged to provide goods or services to the entity. Depending on the services provided (for example, if the vendor operates certain controls on behalf of the entity that are necessary to achieve the entity's objectives), it also might be a service provider.Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
- §1 · legacy_primary
- An individual or business (and its employees) that is engaged to provide goods or services to the entity. Depending on the services provided (for example, if the vendor operates certain controls on behalf of the entity that are necessary to achieve the entity's objectives), it also might be a service provider.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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