Third-Party, API & Open-Source Risk Execution

TOP SUMMARY

This is a closed-room, execution-focused Industry Lab designed for in-house Technology and SaaS practitioners operating under sustained delivery, security, and regulatory pressure across third-party services, APIs, and open-source dependencies.

Execution challenges are examined through how dependency approvals, risk ownership, escalation decisions, and override judgments are actually made and defended in practice across modern SaaS architectures.

The Lab is peer-led and example-driven, with no presentations, no theory, and no vendor pitches, enabling safe peer-level exchange to reduce execution risk, shorten decision cycles, and validate actions internally with confidence.

WHAT THIS LAB IS ABOUT

Modern SaaS platforms operate as interconnected ecosystems where third-party services, APIs, SDKs, and open-source components form deep and often opaque dependency chains.

What remains difficult is executing defensible third-party and open-source risk decisions consistently across:

• External API and service dependencies 
• Open-source licensing and security exposure 
• Shared responsibility and ownership boundaries 
• Release pressure and exception approvals 
• Ongoing audit, incident, and regulator scrutiny

This Industry Lab examines how SaaS organisations execute third-party, API, and open-source risk decisions in practice when delivery velocity collides with security, legal, and governance obligations.

KEY EXECUTION AREAS COVERED

This session focuses on real execution pressure points and decision moments, including:

• Approving third-party services and APIs under delivery pressure 
• Assigning ownership across product, security, and legal teams 
• Governing open-source usage, licensing, and vulnerabilities 
• Executing exception and override decisions defensibly 
• Managing inherited risk through downstream dependencies 
• Shortening decision cycles during dependency risk escalation

All content is example-driven, execution-focused, and usable from the next day.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This session is designed for in-house professionals with direct responsibility for executing and defending third-party, API, and open-source risk decisions, including:

• Senior in-house legal leaders 
• Product security and application security leaders 
• Privacy and Data Protection Officers 
• GRC, risk, or compliance leaders 
• Engineering, platform, or technology governance leaders

Participants may span experience levels, but all participants share accountability for execution under security, regulatory, and audit scrutiny, not academic or theoretical interest.

FORMAT & DELIVERY

• Format: Live virtual session (secure, enterprise-accessible) 
• Duration: 90 minutes 
• Interaction: High — peer discussion and live problem solving 
• Confidentiality: No requirement to disclose proprietary or sensitive information

IMPORTANT BOUNDARIES

GC360 Industry Labs operate with strict execution boundaries:

• No vendor-led agendas or sales pitches 
• No marketing, demos, or lead generation 
• GC360 does not sell or share attendee data 
• Contributions are experience-based and anonymised

These boundaries preserve a high-trust, execution-focused environment.

MEMBERSHIP VALUE NOTE

For professionals participating in multiple GC360 sessions annually, membership provides consistent access to execution-focused peer exchange.