You're not the charity. You're the attack surface for 70 of them.
As a fundraising agency, donor-management platform, payment processor, or grants platform, you sit inside the vendor layer the sector has learned to scrutinise directly. Pareto Phone cascaded across up to 70 charities and collapsed its own business owing $17.3 million. FIA Code expectations are sharpening. Charity procurement is asking harder questions about third-party security — and SOC 2 reports on their own are increasingly treated as insufficient.
Your specific challenges
The Pareto Phone collapse is the direct peer reference
A shared telemarketing vendor ran a cascade event across up to 70 charities, then collapsed owing $17.3M. The OAIC dropped its investigation because there was nothing left. The sector remembers.
Data retention is both a compliance and attack-surface issue
Pareto retained donor data from 2007 onward — far beyond operational need. Many vendor platforms carry similar legacy retention. The data you hold is the data you'll lose.
Charity procurement is sharpening its vendor assurance
FIA Code developments and post-Pareto charity procurement expectations mean a SOC 2 Type II alone is increasingly insufficient. Sector customers want structured third-party testing evidence.
Built for your situation
Pareto-pattern coverage
AD Password Audit, Phishing Impact, and credential-reuse testing target the attack paths LockBit (Pareto) and Akira actors exploit. External and Cloud Pentesting cover the integration surface donor data flows through.
Third-party evidence charity customers can use
NodeZero findings provide structured third-party evidence your charity customers can include in their own Governance Standard 5 and APP 11 due diligence — going beyond a point-in-time SOC 2.
Data retention reach assessment
NodeZero findings reveal what data is actually accessible from a compromised vendor account. Informs retention policy enforcement — the specific failing that amplified the Pareto breach impact.
Give charity customers post-Pareto assurance
Book an assessment of your fundraising, donor CRM, or payment platform against the Pareto attack pattern