Scaling Trust with Third-Party Data Exchanges: Google Cloud’s Updated Global Risk Exchange Assessment on ProcessUnity

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May 2026

by Kaitlyn Frank

As third-party risk management (TPRM) programs continue to evolve, organizations are under increasing pressure to assess vendors faster. To provide customers with a more scalable and transparent way to evaluate its security and compliance posture, Google Cloud released its latest annual update to its Global Risk Exchange assessment.

More than a routine update, this refreshed assessment reflects Google Cloud’s ongoing commitment to simplifying third-party risk processes while improving the quality and accessibility of risk data for its customers.

A Scalable Approach to Third-Party Risk Management

Historically, vendor assessments have been highly manual and time-intensive. By leveraging a validated assessment within ProcessUnity, Google Cloud enables customers to access a centralized, standardized, and independently reviewed view of its security and compliance posture.

“We’re focused on making it easier for our customers to understand and trust Google Cloud’s security and compliance posture at scale. By leveraging ProcessUnity’s validated assessment, we’re able to provide a consistent, transparent view of our controls, reducing friction, while helping customers access the information they need, faster,” says Thad Van den Bosch, Program Manager, Compliance at Google.

With this assessment, Google Cloud can provide a single, trusted source of truth, allowing customers to self-serve the information they need when they need it.

As a result, Google Cloud and its customers can experience:

  • Less time spent searching for critical risk and compliance data
  • Fewer manual touchpoints, audits, and follow-ups
  • Faster onboarding and vendor evaluation cycles

The Power of a Validated Assessment

At the core of this update is Google Cloud’s validated assessment data within ProcessUnity’s Global Risk Exchange, calculated to produce Google Cloud’s ProcessUnity Risk Index score.

Unlike traditional questionnaires or self-attested responses, Google Cloud’s validated assessment goes through independent control validation from experienced practitioners at Big Four consulting firms with at least 4+ years in cybersecurity audit and compliance, combined with trained AI documentation review, producing an outside-in, inside-out view of risk. This helps ensure that responses are not only complete, but also accurate and aligned with real-world control environments.

For customers, this assessment helps provide a higher level of confidence and trust. Instead of interpreting raw responses or requesting additional evidence, they can rely on vetted, standardized data that reflects how controls are actually implemented.

For Google Cloud’s customers, this means a more direct, accurate view of Google Cloud’s security posture.

Moving Beyond “Outside-In” Risk Signals with ProcessUnity Risk Index

One of the most important differentiators in ProcessUnity’s approach to assessment data, and a key point for Google Cloud customers, is the combination of “outside-in” and “inside-out” risk intelligence (also defined as “internally informed control data” and “externally observed security signals”).

Many organizations are familiar with security ratings platforms that provide an external view of risk based on observable data, such as IP reputation or exposed vulnerabilities. While useful, these “outside-in” signals only tell part of the story.

They do not fully represent an organization’s internal controls, governance, or operational maturity.
ProcessUnity Risk Index addresses this gap by combining:

  • Outside-in data from perimeter-scanning providers and external sources
  • Inside-out validation through in-depth assessments of policies, procedures, and control environments

This dual approach is important for organizations like Google Cloud, where external signals alone may not reflect the strength and sophistication of internal security controls.

“Our goal is to reduce the operational burden of third-party risk assessments for both Google Cloud and our customers,” says Van den Bosch. “With ProcessUnity’s validated assessment data behind the ProcessUnity Risk Index, we’re able to deliver a more complete and scalable view of our risk posture, combining both internal control validation and external signals in a single, trusted source.”

For Google Cloud, the ProcessUnity Risk Index reinforces the value of its validated assessment. While external signals may fluctuate or underrepresent certain environments, the inclusion of inside-out validation helps ensure that the overall score reflects the true strength of Google Cloud’s control framework.

Enhancing Usability and Mapping with Framework View

In addition to the assessment itself, ProcessUnity’s Framework View and mapping capabilities further enhance the customer experience for Google Cloud’s customer network.

Google Cloud customers often need to evaluate vendors against specific regulatory or industry frameworks, such as ISO, NIST, SOC 2, FedRAMP, and SIG, plus over 60 additional mappings available in the ProcessUnity platform. Traditionally, this requires a significant manual effort to map responses to each framework, but with framework mapping, customers can automatically align Google Cloud’s validated assessment to their required standards, helping to reduce duplication and accelerate compliance reviews.

Delivering Value Across a Global Customer Base

Google Cloud’s updated Global Risk Exchange assessment is designed with its diverse, global customer base in mind. By providing a centralized, validated, and continuously updated assessment, Google Cloud enables organizations across industries and geographies to access the information they need without delays or unnecessary complexity.

Access Google Cloud’s Updated Assessment

Google Cloud’s latest Global Risk Exchange assessment and ProcessUnity Risk Index data are now available for customers and vendors in Google Cloud’s network.

To access Google Cloud’s assessment data, visit its ProcessUnity page here: https://assess.processunity.com/access-google-cloud-assessment/

Frequently Asked Questions

A third-party data exchange is a centralized platform where vendors share validated security, compliance, and risk information to be shared with their customers. It supports vendor risk management by reducing the need for repetitive assessments and providing a consistent, trusted source of data for evaluation.

A third-party data exchange streamlines the assessment process by allowing customers to access pre-collected, standardized data instead of conducting one-off reviews. This reduces manual effort, accelerates due diligence, and minimizes back-and-forth communication between vendors and customers.

Organizations typically share validated assessment data, security and compliance documentation, control evidence, and risk scores. This information helps customers gain a comprehensive understanding of a vendor’s risk posture without needing to request additional materials.

By providing centralized access to consistent and validated data, a third-party data exchange increases visibility into a vendor’s control environment. This transparency builds trust and enables customers to make more informed risk decisions.

As vendor ecosystems grow, organizations need scalable ways to manage risk without increasing manual workload. Third-party data exchange platforms enable this by standardizing data sharing, reducing duplication, and supporting faster, more efficient risk assessments.

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ProcessUnity is the Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) company. Our software platforms and data services protect customers from cybersecurity threats, breaches, and outages that originate from their ever-growing ecosystem of business partners. By combining the world’s largest third-party risk data exchange, the leading TPRM workflow platform, and powerful artificial intelligence, ProcessUnity extends third-party risk, procurement, and cybersecurity teams so they can cover their entire vendor portfolio. With ProcessUnity, organizations of all sizes reduce assessment work while improving quality, securing intellectual property and customer data so business operations continue to operate uninterrupted.