Top 10 Safe Security Alternatives for Third Party Risk Management

Looking for an alternative to Safe Security? This post outlines the top 10 alternate options to Safe Security’s Third-Party Risk Management solution, SAFE.

1. UpGuard

Overview of UpGuard

With the platform named the #1 leader in third-party risk and supplier risk management by G2 for eight consecutive quarters, UpGuard is the leading cybersecurity solution for Third-Party Risk Management.

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UpGuard is an all-in-one TPRM solution, offering complete third-party risk detection, assessment, and management workflows natively integrated into a single intuitive platform.

Here’s how UpGuard compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features:

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • UpGuard: Uses automated attack surface scanning techniques to detect third-party cyber risks at scale, quantifying vendor security postures with one of the industry’s most accurate risk rating solutions. With its IPv4 web space scans completed in just 24 hours, UpGuard offers one of the fastest third-park risk scan refresh rates in the industry, providing security teams with the most accurate window into the states of their third-party attack surface. UpGuard also offers point-in-time risk identification with a comprehensive library of security questionnaires mapping to regulations and cyber frameworks. These customizable questionnaires are available as part of a complete third-party risk assessment workflow.
   • SAFE TPRM: Identifies third-party risks through outside-in security ratings, zero-trust, and inside-out scans. Offers a holistic outlook into supply chain cyber risks by consolidating threat feed and third-party vendor risk data.

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2. Risk Analysis:
   • UpGuard: Offers remediation impact projections for selected remediation tasks to help security teams prioritize actions with the greatest potential security posture impacts. Also offers a third-party vulnerability module providing details about specific vendor risk exposures and their remediation steps.
   • SAFE TPRM: Utilizes zero-trust principles and provides real-time visibility into internal resiliency controls, enabling businesses to minimize the impact of potential breaches. It includes financial impact analysis of potential risks and helps in prioritizing third-party risks based on their business impact.

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3. Risk Management:
   • UpGuard: Offers a Trust Exchange platform for streamlining third-party risk assessment data collection and management, a solution that could rapidly accelerate security questionnaire completions. 
   • SAFE TPRM: Provides control recommendations based on cyber attack research. Consolidates research feeds data with third-party risk data to provide a unified view of recommended risk management steps.

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4. Risk Monitoring:
   • UpGuard: Combines point-in-time risk assessment with continuous attack surface monitoring to offer real-time awareness of third-party risks. This approach ensures ongoing risk visibility even between assessment schedules.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers continuous monitoring of emerging third-party risks. Uses a combination of a outside-in and inside-out approaches to enhance its scope of third-party risk monitoring.
5. Process Automation:
   • UpGuard: Offers an AI toolkit automating the most time-consuming processes associated with security questionnaires and risk assessments, with the resulting streamlined TPRM processes producing a scalable and cost-effective TPRM program. In addition to its AI toolkit, UpGuard's Trust Exchange platform automates evidence-collection processes to expedite vendor risk assessment completions.
   • SAFE TPRM: Combines various cyber risk data sources and automates vendor risk assessment evidence collection processes to streamline risk assessments.
6. User Friendliness:
   • UpGuard: The UpGuard platform is well-known for its user-friendly interface, allowing users to instantly leverage its complete TPRM features with little to no onboarding support. With the platform specifically developed to require minimal implementation guidance, UpGuard accelerates the return on investment new users experience.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers a user-friendly platform that simplifies third-party risk management navigation, making it easier for users to manage and mitigate risks efficiently, making it easier for new users to manage and mitigate risks efficiently.

"We found UpGuard’s design very clean and very intuitive – more intuitive than the UI of its competitors, making it an easy decision to go with UpGuard."

- 7 Chord

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7. Customer Support:
   • UpGuard: Continuously praised for the responsiveness of its customer support team. WIth users having continuous access to professional support services, UpGuard ensures minimal downtime for third-party risk management operations, while ensuring users leverage the maximum value from their TPRM platform investment.
   • SAFE TPRM: Noted for its excellent customer support. Safe Security's support team helps users address platform issues promptly.
     
8. Risk Scoring Accuracy:
   • UpGuard: Adheres to the Principles for Fair and Accurate Security Ratings, providing objective and accurate weightings of detected third-party risks and third-party security postures.
   • SAFE TPRM: Provides high-confidence risk scores based on scanning and risk assessment results.

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2. SecurityScorecard

Overview of SecurityScorecard

SecurityScorecard is a well known contender in the Third-Party Risk Management space. It's TPRM processes are centered around its most promiment feature - a security rating solution representing each vendor's security posture and level of cyber threat resilience.

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Here’s how SecurityScorecard compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features:

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • SecurityScorecard: Through active and passive data collection methods offers indicators of risks relating to open ports, DNS, HSTS, SSL, and more. The platform also monitors "hacker chatter" for indicators of compromise to support premptive risk mitigation actions..
   • SAFE TPRM: Consolidates its security ratings into third-party cyber risk feeds for a holistic view of supply chain risk exposures.
2. Risk Analysis:
   • SecurityScorecard: Aggregates multiple cyber risk feeds into a single security rating to simplify security posture benchmarking in the competitor landscape. SecurityScorecard's risk ratings allows risk management teams to simplify the impact measurement for completed remediation tasks..
   • SAFE TPRM: Combines zero-trust principles with real-time third-party attack surface visibility to provide accurate insights for security control efficacy and the potential impacts of data breaches. Also offers financial impact analsysis for potential third-party cyber risks to support intelliigent remeidation prioritization.
     
3. Risk Management:
   • SecurityScorecard: Supports continuous monitoring of evolving venndor security postures through its risk rating feature. Security Scorecard's risk rating also support proactive risk management practices to enhance the overall efficiency of a TPRM program.
   • SAFE TPRM: Consolidates third-party risk data to provide a unified vendor cyber risk view in a single TPRM platform.
4. Risk Monitoring:
   • SecurityScorecard: Completes non-intrusive scans across the entire IPv4 web space in 10 days.‍
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers real-time visibility into third-party risks by aggregating data from risk assessments and security ratings. It uses both outside-in and inside-out assessments for comprehensive monitoring.

In comparison, UpGuard completes its non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space in just 24 hours.

5. Process Automation:
   • SecurityScorecard: Offers API connections for users to automate risk management processes. Also offers tntegrations with third-party workflow management solutions such as ServiceNow and RSA Archer.
   • SAFE TPRM: Automates key TPRM processes to streamline risk assessment and remediation workflows.
6. User Friendliness:
   • SecurityScorecard: Known for its simple UI with quick report generation features, making the platform workflows easy to navigate and its insights readily sharable with stakeholders.
   • SAFE TPRM: Its user--friendly platform is easy to navigate, even for novice users.
7. Customer Support:
   • SecurityScorecard: Offers a responsive customer support team in addition to an online academy platform and how-to resources.
   • SAFE TPRM: Praised for its excellent customer support offering.
8. Risk Scoring Accuracy
   • SecurityScorecard: Provides security ratings on a numerical scale from 0 to 100 with letter scale breakdowns ranged within an A to F report card based scale. 
   • SAFE TPRM: Provides high-confidence security risk scores based on risk assessment data.

3. Bitsight

Overview of BitSight

BitSight quantifies third-party cybersecurity postures by referencing publicly accessible data to produce security ratings to support Third-Party Risk Management efforts. 

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Here’s how Bitsight compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features:

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • BitSight: Combines publicly accessible data and proprietary algorithms to produce vendor security ratings supporting due diligence processes and ongoing third-party risk management.
   • SAFE TPRM: Uses security rating technology to produce a holistic view of third-party cyber risk exposure.
2. Risk Analysis:
   • BitSight: Simplifies risk exposure comparison between third-party vendor and service providers by aggregating multiple third-party risk indicators into a single risk rating. The resulting quantification of overall third-party cyber risk exposure simplifies risk management decisions. 
   • SAFE TPRM: Combines third-party risk data with financial impact analysis to help security team prioritze remediation tasks with the greatest potential negative impact on an organization.
3. Risk Management:
   • BitSight: Supports ongoing vendor risk management by aggregating security scores that are updated with emerging third-party risks.
   • SAFE TPRM: Recommends security control best practices based on third-party risk data.
4. Risk Monitoring:
   • BitSight: Monitors third-party attack surface through passive scans of public-facing third-party assets. Incorporates IP reputation methodology to detect active malware installations. 
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers continuous and real-time detection of emerging third-party risks, providing complete vendor risk visibility.
5. Process Automation:
   • BitSight: Offers an API to offset TPRM processes to third-party platforms, such as RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, and MetricStream.
   • SAFE TPRM: Automates routine TPRM tasks.
6. User Friendliness:
   • BitSight: Offers a dashboard aggregating the most critical risk insights for a TPRM program. Simplified UI helps users understand their third-party risk data for simplified management.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers a user-friendly dashboard that simplifies the management of third-party cyber risk data.
7. Customer Support:
   • BitSight: Prompt customer support in addition to a regularly maintained blog showcasing emerging updates in the TPRM industry.
   • SAFE TPRM: Recognized for its excellent customer support and willingness to help users navigate product-related issues. 
8. Risk Scoring Accuracy:
   • BitSight: Quantifies third-party security postures with a rating scale ranging from 250-900, where the higher the rating, the more likely a third-party entity is resilient to cyber threats and data breach risks..
   • SAFE TPRM: Utilizes high-confidence scoring methods to evaluate a vendor's susceptibility to being impacted by cyber threats.

4. OneTrust

Overview of OneTrust

OneTrust supports its users with the ongoing assessment and management of third-party cyber risks within their supply chain.

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Here’s how Onetrust compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features:

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • OneTrust: Combines ad-hoc and document exchange models to improve due diligence and third-party risk management efficiency. Third-party risk data is collected through security questionnaires and automated security scans capable of detecting security misconfigurations.
   • SAFE TPRM: Aggregates automated security scanning data and threat feeds to form a holistic view of a company's third-party risk exposure.
2. Risk Analysis:
   • OneTrust: Aggregates third-party risk insights across privacy, security, and governance risk categories. Also considers questionnaire responses to produce more contextualized third-party risk insights.
   • SAFE TPRM: Also considers cyber risk insights from automated scans and completed questionnaires, with the added Integration of  financial impact analysis to help security teams also consider the potential financial impacts of detected third-party risks. 
3. Risk Management:
   • OneTrust: Offers additional data points to enhance risk management efforts, such as risk tiers, service types, and commercial timeframes.
   • SAFE TPRM: Consolidates third-party risk data sources into a single unified view, helping security teams make the most efficient risk management decisions.
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   • OneTrust: Primarily focuses on internal questionnaire responses to evaluate and organization's overrall data breach risk, with limited consideration of the influence of third-party attack vectors. 
   • SAFE TPRM: Considers internal and external attack surface in its risk assessment processes to form a more accurate and comprehsive measurement of data breach susceptibility..
5. Process Automation:
   • OneTrust: Leverages AI to expedite the completion of repetitive security questionnaires. AI is also integrated in to the dashboard to aggreagte relevant risk insights across privacy, security, and governance risks.
   • SAFE TPRM: Automates common user processes to streamline TPRM workflows.
6. User Friendliness:
   • OneTrust: Easy-to-navigate user interface offering workflow customization. A fully cloud-based service with minimal installation effort.
   • SAFE TPRM: User-friendly platform, allowing even novice users to begin effectively managing third-party risks shortly after implementation.
7. Customer Support:
   • OneTrust: Responsive customer support team.‍
   • SAFE TPRM: Noted for its excellent customer support.‍
8. ‍Risk Scoring Accuracy:‍

• ‍OneTrust: Utilizes a three tier risk categorization system for detected cyber risks  - Critial, High, Medium, and Low. Unfortunately, the platform's risk scoring methodology offers limited consideration of external attack vector insights.
• ‍SAFE TPRM: Provides high-confidence risk scores for third-party vendors in the supply chain.

5. Panorays

Overview of Panorays

Panorays is a US-incorporated company operating primarily out of Tel Aviv, Israel. The Panorays platform helps users discover, assess, and monitor their cybersecurity risk exposure from third-party vendors in their digital supply chain. Here’s how Panorays compares to Safe Security's SAFE TPRM solution across several key features:

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Here’s how Panorays compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features:

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • Panorays: Aggregates insights from security rating, questionnaire responses and completed risk assessments for a holistic evulation of third-party risk exposure.
   • SAFE TPRM: Integrates zero-trust principles into its risk detection feeds for a more risk-averse outlook into supply chain risk exposure.
2. Risk Analysis:
   • Panorays: Through non-intrusive methods evaluates an organization''s third-party risk exposure across three primary risk sources - network and IT, application and the human attack surface.
   • SAFE TPRM: Combines multiple third-party cyber risk feeds to provide a comprehensive evaluation of an organization's data breach potential.
3. Risk Management:
   • Panorays: Detects hidden n-th parties to streamline third-party risk detection during vendor onboarding - leading to positive impacts toward overall risk management efficiency.
   • SAFE TPRM: Recommends security control best practices based on third-party risk data feeds
4. Risk Monitoring:
   • Panorays: Performs passive scans on third-party public-facing attack surfaces. Incorporates IP reputation methodology to detect potential malware installations.
   • SAFE TPRM: Supports continuous real-time monitoring of the third-party attack surface.
5. Process Automation:
   • Panorays: Offers questionnaire templates mapping to popular standards to streamline questionniare, and therfore, third-party risk assessment completions.
   • SAFE TPRM: Integrates automation technology into third-party risk evidence collection processes to expedite risk assessment completions.
6. User Friendliness:
   • Panorays: Highly intuitive platform interface that's open to workflow customization.
   • SAFE TPRM: Very user-friendly and adaptable to common TPRM workflows.
7. Customer Support:
   • Panorays: Responsive customer support team. Also offers certifications and training programs to support the further development of TPRM knowledge.
   • SAFE TPRM: Noted for its excellent customer support.
8. Risk Scoring Accuracy:
   • Panorays: Assigns a risk weighting to third-party risks detected through questionnaire responses. Unfortunatly, considertation of third-party attack vectors is limited in the platform's risk scoring methodology.
   • SAFE TPRM: Provides high-confidence risk scores based on vendor security questionnaire responses.

6. Prevalent

Overview of Prevalent

Prevalent offers a 360-degree third-party risk management platform, helping organizations manage and monitor cyber risks associated with third and fourth-party vendors. 

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Here’s how Prevalent compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features:

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • Prevalent: Pulls data from security questionnaires and automated scanning results to form a comprehensive view of each vendor's cyber security posture.
   • SAFE TPRM: Defines third-party security postures through point-in-time and continuous monitoring efforts.
2. Risk Analysis:
   • Prevalent: Offers a workflow for users to share risk assessment data to complement integrated point-in-time and security rating risk analysis methods.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers real-time visibility into security controls to provide the most up-to-date risk data for risk analysis.t.
3. Risk Management:
   • Prevalent: Manages risks by providing a comprehensive view of vendor security posture through aggregated scores. It supports ongoing risk management practices and helps identify areas needing improvement.
   • SAFE TPRM: Recommends elite controls for vendors based on research of cyber attacks, consolidates third-party risk data, and provides a unified risk view. It enables businesses to manage third-party risks effectively using a single platform.
4. Risk Monitoring:
   • Prevalent: Combines point-in-time risk assessments with automated monitoring for cyber threats to produce security ratings. It does not offer continuous monitoring like SAFE TPRM.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers continuous and real-time assessment of third-party risks.
5. Process Automation:
   • Prevalent: Automates some components of the risk assessment process. Also offers an exchange for streamlining the evidence-gathering phase of risk assessments. 
   • SAFE TPRM: Integrates automation into remediation and risk assessment processes.
6. User Friendliness:
   • Prevalent: Known for its simple implementation and easy-to-understand interface.
   • SAFE TPRM: Clean dashboards that can be easily understood even by novice users.
7. Customer Support:
   • Prevalent: Very responsive customer support team.
   • SAFE TPRM: Noted for its excellent customer support.
8. Risk Scoring Accuracy:
   • Prevalent: Provides a risk rating between 0 and 100 based on data from point-in-time assessments and security ratings.
   • SAFE TPRM: Provides high-confidence risk scores

7. RiskRecon

Overview of RiskRecon

RiskRecon helps users gain deep, risk-contextualized insights for third-party vendors.

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Here’s how RiskRecon compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features:

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • RiskRecon: Uses passive scans of third-party public-facing attack surfaces to identify cyber risks.
   • SAFE TPRM: Also measures vendor security postures with a security rating methodology.
2. Risk Analysis:
   • RiskRecon: Aggregates insight from a range of attack vector categories into a single security rating, allowing for a comparison of cybersecurity performance between service providers.
   • SAFE TPRM: Combines insight from point-in-time assessments and security ratings to support effective analysis of third-party risk exposure.
3. Risk Management:
   • RiskRecon: Helps users manage third-party risks with a scoring feature representing risk exppsure at a given point in time.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers risk management suggestions based on risk insights gathered from questionnaire responses.
4. Risk Monitoring:
   • RiskRecon: Continuously monitors third-party security postures to provide ongoing visibility into third-party risk exposure.
   • SAFE TPRM: Also offers continuous third-party security posture monitoring.
5. Process Automation:
   • RiskRecon: Automates risk assessment processes in addition to offering APIs for streamlining data integration between services supporiting TPRM objectives.
   • SAFE TPRM: Automates some TPRM processes to enhance TPRM program scalability.
6. User Friendliness:
   • RiskRecon: Features an intuitive interface.
   • SAFE TPRM: Provides a unified platform that simplifies third-party risk management processes.
7. Customer Support:
   • RiskRecon: Responsive and helpful customer support team.
   • SAFE TPRM: Noted for its excellent customer support.
8. Risk Scoring Accuracy:
   • RiskRecon: Security ratings are calculated based on 11 security domains and 41 security criteria for greater risk insight accuracy.
   • SAFE TPRM: Provides high-confidence risk scores for third-party security postures.

8. Black Kite

Overview of Black Kite

Black Kite is a cyber risk rating platform. By leveraging open-source threat intelligence and non-intrusive cyber reconnaissance, Black Kite aims to provide a scalable framework for tracking third-party security risks.

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Here’s how Black Kite compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features:

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • Black Kite: References public vulnerability databases and reputation sites in addition to advanced techniques such as honeypots...
   • SAFE TPRM: Identifies third-party risks through questionnaire response.
2. Risk Analysis:
   • Black Kite: Aggregates different third-party risk categories into a single security rating.
   • SAFE TPRM: Also utilizes a security rating solution to simplify risk analysis and vendor security posture tracking.
3. Risk Management:
   • Black Kite: Manages risks by providing a comprehensive view of vendor security posture through aggregated security scoring.
   • SAFE TPRM: Recommends controls for vendors based on research of cyber attacks.
4. Risk Monitoring:
   • Black Kite: Performs non-intrusive checks, including passive DNS, attack surface detection, passive vulnerability scanning, DNS health, SSL/TLS strength, and email security. It also monitors asset reputation, credential compromises, hacktivist shares, social media, dark web, cloud delivery network security, fraudulent apps, and DDoS detection.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers continuous and real-time monitoring of third-party risks.
5. Process Automation:
   • Black Kite: Provides standard APIs for seamless communication with other internal systems. It integrates with Supply Wisdom and VendorInsight for enhanced functionality.
   • SAFE TPRM: Automates and scales third-party security programs, streamlining processes from risk assessment to remediation. It integrates various risk data sources and automates evidence collection and risk assessments.
6. User Friendliness:
   • Black Kite: The platform is known for its steep learning curve and unintuitive user workflow, making it challenging for first-time users to navigate.
   • SAFE TPRM: Clean UI with intuitive TPRM workflows.
7. Customer Support:
   • Black Kite: Responsive customer support team.
   • SAFE TPRM: Noted for its excellent customer support.
8. Risk Scoring Accuracy:
   • Black Kite: Provides risk ratings on a letter grade scale from A to F based on ten risk categories and 250+ control items. However, some security risk categories discovered in scans have questionable accuracy.
   • SAFE TPRM: Provides high-confidence risk scores based on risk assessments and completed questionnaires.

9. Whistic

Overview of Whistic

Whistic helps organizations conduct security reviews and streamlines risk assessment processes with an exchange for collecting vendor security posture data,

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Here’s how Whistic compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features::

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • Whistic: Relies on standardized security questionnaires and point-in-time risk assessments to identify cyber risks. Also provides a platform for vendors to publish their complete questionnaires and any supporting documentation that could aid risk exposure undertanding for prospective partners.
   • SAFE TPRM: Provides outside-in security ratings and inside-out scans to identify third-party cyber risks.
2. Risk Analysis:
   • Whistic: Uses vendor questionnaires, documentation, and metadata to assess and compare third parties against predefined cyber risk criteria. The platform primarily relies on point-in-time assessment methods. However, these insights could become outdated between assessment schedules.
   • SAFE TPRM: provides real-time visibility into internal and third-party resiliency controls.
3. Risk Management:
   • Whistic: Pulls data from completed questionnaires and risk assessments to form a basis for risk management plans.
   • SAFE TPRM: Recommends remediation and management actions based on continuous monitoring and point-in-time methods.
4. Risk Monitoring:
   • Whistic: Relies on point-in-time assessments, which means new risks are only detected during each assessment schedule. This approach can lead to a lag between risk assessment results and actual cyber risk exposure.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers continuous and real-time third-party risk monitoring.
5. Process Automation:
   • Whistic: Automates the risk assessment process by allowing vendors to publish their security profiles, including questionnaires and documentation, which can be shared with prospective partners. This reduces the time spent on conducting vendor risk assessments.
   • SAFE TPRM: Automates some TPRM processes across remediation and risk assessment workflows
6. User Friendliness:
   • Whistic: Features an easy-to-understand interface, but it may take some time to completely master.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers a clean and intuitive TPRM dashboard.
7. Customer Support:
   • Whistic: Helpful customer support team.
   • SAFE TPRM: Noted for its excellent customer support.
8. Risk Scoring Accuracy:
   • Whistic: Risk exposure tracking is based on data pulled from completed point-in-time assessments, which can quickly become outdated as new risks emerge between assessment schedules. 
   • SAFE TPRM: Utilizes a high-confidence risk scoring methodology for measuring vendor security posture.

10. Vanta

Overview of Vanta

Vanta is predominantly focused on managing the compliance risk aspect of TPRM. The patforms helps users achieve complete compliance across popular standards, including GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001.

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Here’s how Vanta compares to Safe Security's key TPRM features:

Key Features Comparison

1. Risk Identification:
   • Vanta: Primarily focuses on compliance-related risk identification, using security questionnniares as a primary medium for surfacing these risks.
   • SAFE TPRM: Also surfaces compliance-related risks through security questionnaires, in addition to other cybersecuirty categories of third-party risks.
2. Risk Analysis:
   • Vanta: Does not incorporate security scores, data leaks or other similar categories of the external attack surface in its risk analsys.
   • SAFE TPRM: Amalgamates third-party risk feeds from security scores and questionnaire responses to inform its risk analysis processes.
3. Risk Management:
   • Vanta: Helps users with achieving security certifications and complete regulatory complaince with compliance risk management worflows for internal and third-party compliance risks.
   • SAFE TPRM: Streamlines internal and third-party risk management into a single unified view.
4. Risk Monitoring:
   • Vanta: Does not offer internal and third-party security posture monitoring. Focuses on the discovery and management of compliance-related risks.
   • SAFE TPRM: Offers continuous and real-time assessment of third-party risks, providing high accuracy and complete risk visibility. It uses both outside-in and inside-out assessments for comprehensive monitoring.
5. Process Automation:
   • Vanta: Leverages automation technology to streamline compliance and certification workflows.
   • SAFE TPRM: Incorporates automation into all stages of the TPRM workflow, including remediation and risk assessment workflows.
6. User Friendliness:
   • Vanta: Offers a clean dashboard for tracking compliance progress against audit standards.
   • SAFE TPRM: User-friendly dashboard simplifying third-party risk tracking.
7. Customer Support:
   • Vanta: Some users have reported limited customer support availability, contributing to a slightly steep learning curve during implementation, despite the platform's user-friendly design.
   • SAFE TPRM: Noted for its excellent customer support.
8. Risk Scoring Accuracy:
   • Vanta: Does not provide security ratings.
   • SAFE TPRM: Measures third-party security postures with high-confidence risk scoring.