UpGuard is trusted by hundreds of companies worldwide
Trusted by hundreds of companies worldwide
Capabilities
Offers cybersecurity ratings and deep reporting capabilities to help businesses surface and manage cyber risks
2,000,000+ organizations scanned daily. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in just 24 hours.
170,000 supported organizations.
Provides security ratings that aggregate different risks into a single score, allowing for the comparison of different third-party vendors and service providers. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in 10 days.
Provides a security questionnaire and vendor due diligence information exchange to help reduce the operational overhead of traditionally manual and point in time assessments.
Usability and the learning curve
Provides dashboard visibility for risk prioritization based on configured policy. Cloud based platform offers minimal need for installation.
High-level summation of risk with the ability to drill down into precise technical details.
Provides views of identified vendor risks enabling detailed reporting of vendors.
Simple interface for quick grade reports and charts.
Risks detailed on point-in-time vendor assessment coupled with continuous monitoring of inherent risk, threat intelligence, and risk scoring. The exchange model forces more frequent point in time assessments, as many as 2-3 times each year.
Community support
Offers a customer user academy, consistently updated company blog, coverage of critical global security events, and a regular webinar schedule for sharing best practices.
UpGuard Summit brings together a community of security leaders from leading companies, explores the future of security and helps businesses stay secure. The UpGuard cybersecurity and risk management blog is updated four times a week and our breach research blog has uncovered and secured some of the largest data breaches.
Bitsight maintains regular blog posts and webinars covering security incidents, feature updates, and industry developments.
SecurityScoreCard offers a user Academy for customer users along with a regularly updated company blog, webinar series, and resource center.
ProcessUnity (formerly CyberGRX) offers extensive community support sharing best platform and program practices via regularly updated podcasts, webinars, whitepapers, and strategic partnerships.
Release rate
RiskRecon does not appear to publicly share regular release rates, roadmaps, or documentation for solution updates.
UpGuard has adopted DevOps principles internally to develop, test, and release software continuously, ensuring fast, consistent, and safe releases.
Bitsight does not publicly disclose product release cycle periods but does provide overviews of significant platform updates via their corporate blog.
Makes releases as needed throughout the year, consistently enabling customer users to access information logs of beneficial changes.
ProcessUnity (formerly CyberGRX) makes product releases throughout the year as needed and documents release notes monthly to help users understand and make use of beneficial changes.
Pricing and support
Public pricing information is not available. Pricing is reported to start at $10,000 and increases based on the number of vendors monitored.
UpGuard has a transparent pricing model which you can view here. UpGuard pricing starts at $5,999/year and scales with your company.
Public pricing information is not available. Pricing is reported to start at $20,000 plus $2,000-$2,500 per vendor per year.
Public pricing information is not available. Reports say pricing starts at $16,500 for self-assessment plus five vendors, and additional vendors cost $1,500-$2,000 per vendor per year.
ProcessUnity (formerly CyberGRX) lists typical engagements as starting at around $120,000 USD. This includes validated assessments data, and unlimited access to the CyberGRX Exchange.
API and extensibility
Offers a standard API to create extensibility for RiskRecon cybersecurity ratings.
UpGuard offers a standard API to pull data into other enterprise applications.
SecurityScoreCard offers API connections for users seeking greater security ratings extensibility.
SecurityScoreCard offers API connections for users seeking greater security ratings extensibility.
ProcessUnity (formerly CyberGRX) offers a fully functional bidirectional API.
Third-party integrations
Offers integrations with GRC platforms, such as RSA Archer, Sigma Ratings, Whistic, and more.
Connect UpGuard with over 4,000+ apps using our Zapier integration.
Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Offers integrations with several third party platforms, such as RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and more.
Integrates with multiple GRC platforms, visualization tools, ticketing systems, and SOC tools.
Customers
Major customers include Informatica, Tufts Health Plan, University of San Francisco, and Sentara.
The New York Stock Exchange (ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read our customer stories.
Major customers include Optus / Singtel, The University of North Florida, Snam, and PROSA.
Major customers include Symantec, Pepsico, Two Sigma, and Stony Brook University.
Major customers include Medibank Private, Mass Mutual, QBE, Solix, and McAfee.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.5, based on 2 reviews.
4.5, based on 164 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
4.6, based on 35 reviews.
4.3, based on 68 reviews.
4.5, based on 19 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Allows users to implement a baseline configuration within the RiskRecon portal to match risk structures being used to manage enterprise and third-party risk. Risks monitored provide visibility into email security, application security, network filtering, and more.
As UpGuard checks for misconfigurations across your Internet footprint, many important breach vectors are covered, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data leaks are automatically surfaced by the platform for your team to assess and close before they become breaches.
The IP reputation methodology helps catch active malware installations, but that’s only one possible way a data breach can occur.
SecurityScorecard utilizes active and passive data collection methods that are publicly available. The data collected provides indicators of risk relating to open ports, DNS, HSTS, SSL (and more) that are processed via their proprietary algorithm to produce individual security ratings.
Checks identified risk vectors such as phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data breach incidents are captured, and notice is provided via the exchange.
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Capabilities
Offers cybersecurity ratings and deep reporting capabilities to help businesses surface and manage cyber risks
Usability and the learning curve
Provides dashboard visibility for risk prioritization based on configured policy. Cloud based platform offers minimal need for installation.
Community support
Offers a customer user academy, consistently updated company blog, coverage of critical global security events, and a regular webinar schedule for sharing best practices.
Release rate
RiskRecon does not appear to publicly share regular release rates, roadmaps, or documentation for solution updates.
Pricing and support
Public pricing information is not available. Pricing is reported to start at $10,000 and increases based on the number of vendors monitored.
API and extensibility
Offers a standard API to create extensibility for RiskRecon cybersecurity ratings.
Third-party integrations
Offers integrations with GRC platforms, such as RSA Archer, Sigma Ratings, Whistic, and more.
Customers
Major customers include Informatica, Tufts Health Plan, University of San Francisco, and Sentara.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.5, based on 2 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Allows users to implement a baseline configuration within the RiskRecon portal to match risk structures being used to manage enterprise and third-party risk. Risks monitored provide visibility into email security, application security, network filtering, and more.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Capabilities
2,000,000+ organizations scanned daily. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in just 24 hours.
Usability and the learning curve
High-level summation of risk with the ability to drill down into precise technical details.
Community support
UpGuard Summit brings together a community of security leaders from leading companies, explores the future of security and helps businesses stay secure. The UpGuard cybersecurity and risk management blog is updated four times a week and our breach research blog has uncovered and secured some of the largest data breaches.
Release rate
UpGuard has adopted DevOps principles internally to develop, test, and release software continuously, ensuring fast, consistent, and safe releases.
Pricing and support
UpGuard has a transparent pricing model which you can view here. UpGuard pricing starts at $5,999/year and scales with your company.
API and extensibility
UpGuard offers a standard API to pull data into other enterprise applications.
Third-party integrations
Connect UpGuard with over 4,000+ apps using our Zapier integration.
Customers
The New York Stock Exchange (ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read our customer stories.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.5, based on 164 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
Predictive capabilities
As UpGuard checks for misconfigurations across your Internet footprint, many important breach vectors are covered, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data leaks are automatically surfaced by the platform for your team to assess and close before they become breaches.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Capabilities
170,000 supported organizations.
Usability and the learning curve
Provides views of identified vendor risks enabling detailed reporting of vendors.
Community support
Bitsight maintains regular blog posts and webinars covering security incidents, feature updates, and industry developments.
Release rate
Bitsight does not publicly disclose product release cycle periods but does provide overviews of significant platform updates via their corporate blog.
Pricing and support
Public pricing information is not available. Pricing is reported to start at $20,000 plus $2,000-$2,500 per vendor per year.
API and extensibility
Bitsight offers the ability for customers to extend security ratings through a Developer API.
Third-party integrations
Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Customers
Major customers include Optus / Singtel, The University of North Florida, Snam, and PROSA.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.6, based on 35 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
The IP reputation methodology helps catch active malware installations, but that’s only one possible way a data breach can occur.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Capabilities
Provides security ratings that aggregate different risks into a single score, allowing for the comparison of different third-party vendors and service providers. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in 10 days.
Usability and the learning curve
Simple interface for quick grade reports and charts.
Community support
SecurityScoreCard offers a user Academy for customer users along with a regularly updated company blog, webinar series, and resource center.
Release rate
Makes releases as needed throughout the year, consistently enabling customer users to access information logs of beneficial changes.
Pricing and support
Public pricing information is not available. Reports say pricing starts at $16,500 for self-assessment plus five vendors, and additional vendors cost $1,500-$2,000 per vendor per year.
API and extensibility
SecurityScoreCard offers API connections for users seeking greater security ratings extensibility.
Third-party integrations
Offers integrations with several third party platforms, such as RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and more.
Customers
Major customers include Symantec, Pepsico, Two Sigma, and Stony Brook University.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.3, based on 68 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
SecurityScorecard utilizes active and passive data collection methods that are publicly available. The data collected provides indicators of risk relating to open ports, DNS, HSTS, SSL (and more) that are processed via their proprietary algorithm to produce individual security ratings.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Capabilities
Provides a security questionnaire and vendor due diligence information exchange to help reduce the operational overhead of traditionally manual and point in time assessments.
Usability and the learning curve
Risks detailed on point-in-time vendor assessment coupled with continuous monitoring of inherent risk, threat intelligence, and risk scoring. The exchange model forces more frequent point in time assessments, as many as 2-3 times each year.
Community support
ProcessUnity (formerly CyberGRX) offers extensive community support sharing best platform and program practices via regularly updated podcasts, webinars, whitepapers, and strategic partnerships.
Release rate
ProcessUnity (formerly CyberGRX) makes product releases throughout the year as needed and documents release notes monthly to help users understand and make use of beneficial changes.
Pricing and support
ProcessUnity (formerly CyberGRX) lists typical engagements as starting at around $120,000 USD. This includes validated assessments data, and unlimited access to the CyberGRX Exchange.
API and extensibility
ProcessUnity (formerly CyberGRX) offers a fully functional bidirectional API.
Third-party integrations
Integrates with multiple GRC platforms, visualization tools, ticketing systems, and SOC tools.
Customers
Major customers include Medibank Private, Mass Mutual, QBE, Solix, and McAfee.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.5, based on 19 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Checks identified risk vectors such as phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data breach incidents are captured, and notice is provided via the exchange.
Security rating
950
/ 950
RiskRecon Pricing
RiskRecon does not offer transparent pricing information on its website, which forces prospects to engage with sales staff to determine if the product aligns with their budget. However, pricing is reported to start at $10,000 and increases based on the number of vendors monitored.
RiskRecon Features
RiskRecon offers cybersecurity ratings and deep reporting capabilities to help businesses surface and manage cyber risks.
RiskRecon Use Cases
RiskRecon identifies risks using passive scans on a third party’s public-facing attack surfaces. The platform primarily focuses on security risk ratings as a third-party risk mitigation strategy.
RiskRecon Demo / Trial
Potential RiskRecon customers can request a personalized demo on the website to learn how the platform can help manage third-party cyber risk at scale.
RiskRecon API
Offers a standard API to create extensibility for RiskRecon cybersecurity ratings.
RiskRecon Reviews
The general sentiment of RiskRecon users based on multiple review sources is summarized below:
Key Pros:
1. Effective Security Management:
RiskRecon is commended for its continuous monioring capabilities and risk management across general IT security requirements. The platform is also said to promptly detect third-party security risks that could facilitate unauthorized access.
2. Comprehensive Visibility and Risk Assessment:
Users appreciate the tool's ability to provide visibility into the third-party threat landscape.
3. Customer Support:
RiskRecon's support team is highly rated for its responsivness, solving many issues within hours. The support team also provides ongoing assistance after purchase to ensure implementation is completed seamlessly.
4. User-Friendly and Intuitive:
RIskRecon's platform is consider to be very-user friendly easy to navigate even for novice users. Many users highlight the platform's ease of implementation.
Key Cons:
1. Customization Complexity:
Whie the platform is generally commended for its ease of use, some users have reported frustrations with the tools ability to adapt to speccific Vendor Risk Management needs.
2. Not a complete VRM solution
RiskRecon does not support the complete Vendor Risk Management lifecycle, as evidenced by its lack of a native vendor risk assessment workflow. RiskRecon is primarily focused on external risk scanning, which is just a single component of the vendor risk management process.
3. Lack of Advanced Features
Users have reported the platform's lack of advanced features and general reluctance to add more features to its product. RIskRecon doesn't seem to innovate its product in line with increasing requirements in the VRM industry.
4. Limited Remediation Workflow
RiskRecon's remediation workflow is reported to provide limited value in terms of crafting remediation plans for detected vendor security risks. The tool also has limited security information exchange capabilities, an essential feature for effective vendor due diligence.
Gartner Peer Insights
Overall ratings for the IT VRM Solutions market. Accurate as of January 2024
UpGuard
4.4, based on 160 reviews. Named a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for IT VRM Solutions
RiskRecon
4.5, based on 52 reviews.
G2
Accurate as of January 2024
UpGuard
4.5, based on 164 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
RiskRecon
4.5, based on 2 reviews.
Glassdoor
Accurate as of January 2024
UpGuard
4.6
RiskRecon
3.8
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