# Welcome to CISAPP

Understand the main workspaces and choose your first guide.

> **Access:** member.

CISAPP connects vendors, business activities, assessments, risks and compliance evidence. Start with a vendor to understand its exposure, or with a business activity to identify dependencies.

## Before you start

You need an activated account attached to your organization. Visible menus depend on your plan and permissions. A missing menu does not mean your data has disappeared.

## Your first journey

1. [Sign in](https://docs.cisapp.eu/en/getting-started/sign-in) with the email address used for your invitation.
2. Check your organization’s name in the interface.
3. Discover [navigation and search](https://docs.cisapp.eu/en/getting-started/navigation).
4. Open **Suppliers** and select a record you can access.
5. Follow [Onboard a vendor](https://docs.cisapp.eu/en/guides/onboard-vendor) to add a third party, or [Answer a questionnaire](https://docs.cisapp.eu/en/guides/respond-questionnaire) if you are a respondent.

![CISAPP home page and reporting indicators](https://docs.cisapp.eu/images/en/dashboard.webp)

*Home displays the indicators available to your organization. The illustrated data is fictional. · [Open full-size screenshot](https://docs.cisapp.eu/images/en/dashboard.webp)*

## Understand the objects

| Object | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Business activity | Describe what your organization needs to keep doing. |
| Vendor | Identify a third party and centralize its information. |
| Assessment | Examine a scope using questionnaires. |
| Risk | Describe a scenario and track its treatment. |
| Control | Describe a mitigating action and its progress. |
| Evidence | Support a response or control with a document. |

## If your workspace looks empty

Check your [permissions](https://docs.cisapp.eu/en/organization/permissions), then [feature availability](https://docs.cisapp.eu/en/help/availability). An external respondent does not necessarily have the same workspaces as an administrator.