VendorShield is the complete build-to-launch blueprint for a lightweight SaaS security posture monitor built specifically for small businesses — discovery, transparent risk scoring, plain-English alerts, and a full technical and go-to-market plan, grounded in verified breach data, not guesswork.
Every connected app is a small risk. Across dozens of employees and years of adoption, those risks accumulate into serious, invisible exposure.
Sources: Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (April 2025); Identity Theft Resource Center 2025 Business Impact Report. Full source list, with links and publication dates, inside the book.
Everything you need to answer: if I wanted to turn this into a real company, what exactly would I need to build first?
How to find every third-party app connected to a Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 tenant, with what permissions and which user.
A full 0-100 scoring formula across 8 weighted factors — with worked examples and an honest heuristic disclaimer.
Least-privilege scopes, encrypted token storage, rotation, and revocation — explained in plain English and in full technical detail.
An 18-alert library plus the hard boundaries that keep an AI security assistant honest and evidence-based.
Stack recommendations, a complete database schema, an API blueprint, and a system diagram — explained, not just listed.
Encryption, secrets management, RBAC, incident response, and a simplified threat model built for a product that itself must be trustworthy.
Four pricing tiers benchmarked against real competitor pricing, plus conservative/base/aggressive financial scenarios.
ICP and persona definitions, a full sales script and objection library, and why MSPs are the highest-leverage distribution channel.
A prioritized backlog, a full REST API design, and a day-by-day 30-day launch plan through a 90-day growth plan.
Wants simplicity, low cost, peace of mind.
Wants visibility, alerts, remediation workflows.
Wants app and employee accountability.
Wants a multi-client monitoring dashboard.
Priority segment #1 — highest app density.
Priority segment #1 — client trust pressure.
The book includes a full sample dashboard layout and the exact data model behind it.
Authorize a read-only OAuth connection to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 — no passwords, ever.
VendorShield lists every third-party application with standing access, who connected it, and when it was last used.
Every OAuth scope is normalized and evaluated across ten risk categories, from file access to admin privileges.
A transparent 0-100 score, built from eight weighted, disclosed factors — never a black box.
Every finding states what was detected, why it matters, and what to do — in plain English.
Resolve, snooze, accept, or assign every finding, with a full audit trail of who did what.
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Engineering, risk-content, sales, SEO, and financial prompts — organized by use case and ready to paste into any AI assistant.
The lead-magnet worksheet used to drive free-scan signups, ready to use as your own self-assessment tool.
A manual scoring template matching the book's own formula — usable for a manual, no-code MVP.
A checklist version of the full launch and growth plan for tracking real progress.
A fair, sourced comparison against enterprise SSPM and prosumer SaaS-security tools.
Every major business risk with a specific, concrete mitigation.
A full 10-slide outline with exact talking points, traceable to the book's own sourced data.
Plain-English definitions for every security term, plus a ready-to-build customer Trust Center structure.
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This is a complete written blueprint — product spec, technical architecture, business model, and launch plan. It is not source code or a working application.
No. The book is written for a non-technical or semi-technical founder, and it specifies what to build clearly enough to brief a developer, security consultant, or contracted team.
No — the design principle throughout the book is metadata-only access: which app, which scope, which user, when. The book is explicit that a security product should collect the minimum data necessary (Chapter 18).
No — the book is explicit that risk scores are a heuristic, not a guarantee, and dedicates a full chapter (48) to what a security product should never promise.
Every statistic attributed to Verizon's DBIR, the Identity Theft Resource Center, or the SBA is verified as of publication, with source, report name, and date. Financial projections are clearly labeled as illustrative assumptions.
An instant-download PDF and DOCX, 119 pages, delivered immediately after checkout.
No. The book explicitly recommends engaging qualified legal counsel before launching a real product that handles OAuth access to customer systems.
If VendorShield: The SMB Guide to Preventing Third-Party SaaS Security Risks isn't useful to you, email sales@viralbydesign.co within 7 days of purchase for a full refund — no questions asked.
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