Manage cyber risks across a large number of business partners through an established system consistently focused on supply chain risk management. TISAX is one of the world's largest assessment standards and the largest for industrial value chains. With TISAX, we create an assurance infrastructure that strengthens the resilience of supply chains in Germany, Europe, and worldwide. Become part of TISAX.
TISAX is an assessment and exchange mechanism sustainably operated by the ENX Association and its member companies. Through a central platform, participants can access the assessment results of their business partners and use them for supplier risk management.
TISAX as a tool for managing cyber risks in Business partners
Automated Integration into Your Supplier and Risk Management
Companies can automatically process information shared with them and synchronize it with their own systems. This makes TISAX a central tool for scalable digital third-party risk management, for example for status verification, validity checks, assessment objectives, or information-sharing approvals.
One Assessment Can Be Used for Many Business Relationships
Each assessment result can be shared selectively with relevant partners through the exchange mechanism. This means fewer individual audits, fewer questionnaires, and less administrative effort for both parties. Everyone who accepts TISAX results for their own partner management increases efficiency.
Business Partners Remain in Control of Their Assessment Results
Even after an assessment, business partners retain full control over who receives evidence and at what level of detail. At the same time, recipients can rely on continued access to evidence that has already been shared with them. This combination creates trust on both sides.
Standardized and Comparable Information
Comparability is achieved through the uniform definition of scope, assessment objectives, assessment methods, and result formats, as well as through a consistently defined risk appetite. The latter distinguishes TISAX's supply chain approach from other assessment standards that consider only the assessed organization in isolation.
Scalable Third-Party Risk Management with Reduced Process Effort
When an organization has hundreds or thousands of business partners, individual programs reach economic and organizational limits. The combination of a standardized assessment and automated integration enables scalable security and supplier management.
Rapid Adaptation to Cyber Risks Through an Annual Release Cycle
The underlying assessment catalog is continuously developed by the industry through an annual release cycle and adapted to the current threat landscape. As a result, companies benefit from new risks, technological developments, and regulatory requirements being incorporated into assessments in a timely manner.
Early Preparation for Regulatory Requirements
Early assessment in accordance with TISAX has helped many organizations meet regulatory requirements such as NIS 2. The required measures had already been assessed and verified within the TISAX framework. As a result, the German automotive industry was broadly prepared for regulatory requirements.
Proven and Applicable Across Industries
TISAX has been successfully used for years by thousands of partners from a wide range of industries, including universities, engineering and development companies, mechanical engineering, raw materials, logistics, electronics, major cloud providers, market research organizations, and marketing agencies.
Global Use and Strong Adoption in Germany
More than 21,000 sites in over 90 countries have been assessed worldwide, including 7,000 sites in Germany, more than the combined number of ISO 27001-certified sites and critical infrastructure organizations. This allows companies to build on an existing security assessment already held by many current and potential business partners.