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UpGuard Overview

What is UpGuard?

UpGuard provides cybersecurity risk management software (offered as SaaS) that helps organizations across the globe prevent data breaches by continuously monitoring their third-party vendors and their security posture. UpGuard is the only service that offers world-class data leak detection capabilities across an organization’s supply chain while continuously monitoring over a million companies to identify security exposures using proprietary security ratings proactively. Their expertise has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Forbes, Reuters, and TechCrunch among others. UpGuard’s powerful risk assessment workflows enable organizations to automate security questionnaires, and the identified risks from responses are automatically mapped to vendors’ security ratings providing a holistic view of risks posed by third-party vendors. Its remediation capabilities make it easier for organizations to collaborate internally and with third-party vendors to remediate the identified security risks.

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UpGuard is a cybersecurity platform that helps global organizations prevent data breaches, monitor third-party vendors, and improve their security posture. Using proprietary security ratings, world-class data leak detection capabilities, and powerful remediation workflows, we proactively identify security exposures for companies of all sizes.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

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UpGuard is the only service that offers world-class data leak detection capabilities across an organization’s supply chain while continuously monitoring over a million companies to identify security exposures. Their research has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, Forbes, Reuters, and TechCrunch among others.

UpGuard’s security ratings engine monitors millions of companies & billions of data points providing fast and accurate cyber risk identification across your web properties and third-party vendors.

UpGuard’s end-to-end risk assessment workflows and remediation capabilities make it easier for organizations to conduct assessments and collaborate internally and with third-party vendors to remediate the identified security risks without having to use spreadsheets and emails.

UpGuard also offers a custom managed service for vendor risk assessments of your critical vendors, or fully manage the third-party risk management process for all your vendors.


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UpGuard is a comprehensive cyber risk solution that combines third-party security ratings, vendor questionnaires, and threat intelligence capabilities to help businesses manage and improve their security posture.


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Lead Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

I've been using UpGuard for over 3 years now, and it has really improved our organization security posture. Easy to identify risks and vulnerabilities. The Breach risk features I use the most to work on identified vulnerability on owned domain, monitor the domain risk score and identity breach. The product is easy to use and UI is user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

Notification preference setting need to be improved. Don't have option to make setting for all user together. Domain discovery need to be more effective, missed some subdomains. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

UpGuard help us improve the security posture of the domains we own exposed publicly. We were able to improve the score a lot by working on identifying the unwanted domains exposed to public, unsed domains, vulnerabilities, unused port. We worked to remediate all the issue identified and this help us to improve the security risk score and hence reduce the overall attack surface.

It also helps us monitor any data exposure or leaks, We found multiple code leaks and Identity leak. It's allowing us to stay ahead of potential threats. The process to remediate the risk which include sending the comms to identified employee and code owners helps us reduce the time of remediation.

We've been able to improve our security risk score and maintain a strong risk rating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Julien P.
JP
Head of Information Security
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

Upguard is a great product with lot of improvements constantly added. I also had some interaction with their product team and they took in account our feedback in adding new features.

We mostly use Upguard for the Breachsight score, to keep track of our own security posture. We also use it to do vendor assessment for our critical vendors. And recently we started to use the Trust Page more often to showcase to our customers how much focus we put on security. The new features on the Trust page are great (branding, industry average score, certification logos).

The support is really good, they respond fast and usually resolve any issues very fast too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

Sometimes the speed of releasing feature mean that we miss some new functions and don't review them. For example the scoring of questionnaire had a few bugs ("not applicable" items couldn't as negative in the scoring). And then a customer asked us why our questionnaire score was low (as we leverage cloud provider we put the physical control as not applicable which made the score bad while in reality it's just irrelevant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Upguard ensure that we don't miss any security risks both about ourselves but also our vendors.

On top of that, with the trust page, it allows us to showcare our security excellence to our customers & prospect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DS
Senior Security Manager
Retail
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

I like mostly Security Ratings & Breach Incidents. With the help of UpGuard we can take action immediately & ask team to mitigate those risks on the basis of criticality & make our security posture better. UpGaurd is very easy tool to use & deployment is also a very good. It detects most of applications & domains automatically on basis of keyword & easy to add manually as well. Support after sales is also very good in terms of E-mail or via CSM, who always available to support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

Least helpful part of UpGuard is that sometime it doesn't give complete granularity actionable points, which needs attention of related team & team needs more granular report on this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

UpGuard performs scan proactively & give security rating in real time which help us customers to present to their management. UpGuard help to get Breach information accurately with artefacts to cross checking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AJ
Security Analyst
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

"Breach sight" section is quite reliable and easy to understand.

We can easily get to know the vulnerabilities and CVEs associated with these. We can re-scan the application anytime we want to validate whether the vulnerability has been addressed or not.

It is easy to implement and as we can add and scan any custom domain also.

Remediation sub section is also a great way of tracking the vulnerabilities that are currently in progress of patching.

Additional sub section of identity breaches is a great feature as we can get to know if any data has been exposed over the deep and dark web.

Customer support is the backbone of every organization and UpGuard is perfect at customer support. We get revert for our query within 2-3 minutes of sending mail.

I have been using it daily to strengthen the security posture of all the web applications by automated scanning and ad-hoc scanning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

Vendor risk module is not very useful.

Questionnaires require a lot of time to be filled up and to be checked.

It is a whole different module.

We majorly focus on the Vulnerability assessment of Web applications and vendor risk is quite out of scope thing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

UpGuard is a problem solver while we are going through the Breach sight's risk profile section and taking in use all of its sub sections.

TPRM is also a good initiative that we can use while onboarding any vendor with the help of questionnaires and we can get to know whether the vendor is compliant in a particular sense or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TB
Global Director of Cybersecurity
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

I began creating custom risk questionnaires before UpGuard came into existence and have found they are now creating solutions for me to my latest needs when addressing vendor risk. These tools include things that I did not anticipate having access to and have found them useful in other applications for the enterprise. UpGuard may focus on vendor risk, but once you get in the platform there are a number of features. The tools are easy to use and implementation is easy to understand. When the interface is confusing it is easy to setup time with the customer service team who always help me gain momentum. I use the tool at least twice a week and find it a primary tool when reviewing vendor risks and several internal company risks. They have put in a lot of work and the value can be seen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

It takes time to learn to navigate the interface. There are no wizards to walk you step by step through what you want to do. The tool offers complex solutions and has a similar complex interface. I am a little salty about the recent interface changes and the update, while good changes, they impacted my productivity to the point I reached out to the account manager to help me with navigating. Easy conversation and back on track in 30 minutes, but this tool is not a fire and forget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

UpGuard is assisting with our vendor risk assessment, is involved with the entire vendor risk management process and provides the final pieces to our risk scoring. We also utilize UpGuard to access the internal risks of individual branches using a custom-built self-attestation process within the UpGuard framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JP
Executive - IT Security &amp; Governance
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

Being a user of UpGuard I really apprciate it's user-friendly interface along with the efficient monitoring and detections.

Some key points to be noted are:

- Very much useful and easy for non-technical user too.

- Implementation of the UpGuard was easy, efficient and smooth.

- The support team makes the tasks and queries efficient and smooth for the customers.

- Along with the product itself, it also makes easy for integration of various other products to be placed and monitor.

Hence, this is used in my organization as the most frequent site for security monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

Being such strong and powerful site, it also lacks with few features as:

- Complex for the first time users

- Cost effectiveness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

UpGuard helps in addressing and resoling several problems in the domain such as:

-Contineous Monitoring

- Third party risk management

- Risk assessment

- Compliance management

- Prevention in data breach Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DB
Manager Cybersecurity
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

I really like the ease of use. It provides very details risks and vulnerabilities for your domains but also vendors. Request remediation feature is very useful to track and enforce vendors to fix critical vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

Questionnaires with AI capabilities to auto-fill out with SOC reports is a great way to save time for vendors

Identity breaches is a nice to have service to notify users abour compromised credentials.

New features are released every 2-3 weeks. They listen to their customers to offer a better experience.

Customer support is very responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

It lacks of multi language support withing the platform. I don't believe web browser built-in translation is a suitable solution as a workaround so I hope multi language support will be available in 2025.

Custom notification does not provide granularity of which risk we want to be notified (example: Expired certificate or unnecessary port open). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Vendor due diligence and compliance for NIST adoption Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SJ
IT Security Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

What isn't to love about UpGuard? From prebuilt questionnaires for practically every security standard on the planet, to at-a-glance understanding of any red flags associated with your existing vendor or one your considering doing business with, UpGuard has you covered. The ability to see your own business's risks is a great layer in you Defense In Depth and Attack Surface Management strategy.

And did I mention they have the greatest customer support of any company I've ever seen. Little chat box in the bottom right, click it, type a message, and normally Eduardo answers me in about 10 seconds. Never seen a problem this guy can't fix, whether it's odd behavior in their software, or some obscure detection in an HTTP Redirect header. He's awesome!! This is the best vendor I've ever dealt with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

Absolutely Nothing. Go try them. You will not regret it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

UpGuard finds all of the domains, websites, related brands, everything related to the vendor so you don't have to try to figure it out for yourself. Then they constantly monitor and look for risks and threats that might affect that vendor and you as a result.

They also let you know if any information related to your company or employees is disclosed in a breach, including the kind of information compromised and recommendations for next steps. You can even notify your employees directly from the UpGuard portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

S S.
SS
Senior Executive
Automotive
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

Ease of Use - User friendly, we can easily add the website and start immediate assessment.

Implementation - We can easily configure for the implentation.

Customer Support - We can reach them easily and they will respond.

We are using on daily basis to report the vulnerabilities to supplier.

We are using almost all the features in Upguard. It can be easily Integrated with other apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

This is really good tool. During the risk assessment, the remainders can be comsolidated rather than individual. Apart from that no negatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Third-Party Risk Management – UpGuard continuously monitors and assesses third-party vendors for security risks, reducing the chance of breaches through external partners.

Data Leak Prevention – Detects and alerts on exposed data, misconfigurations, and potential vulnerabilities in internal and cloud environments, preventing sensitive information leaks.

Compliance and Reporting Automation – Simplifies compliance with regulations (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001) by automating security questionnaires, audits, and reporting processes.

Real-Time Cybersecurity Ratings – Provides a clear cybersecurity score for your organization and third-party vendors, enabling better risk management and informed decision-making.

Improved Incident Response – Helps detect security incidents early and provides actionable steps for remediation, minimizing downtime and damage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RG
Compliance assurance Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about UpGuard?

What I like best is the Breach risk section as I am a red teamer, and I have the role of managing vulnerabilities and helping team to mitigate them.

UpGuard is really a very good consideration for ease of use, implementation, customer support.

Its easy integration with the help of API with jira was a good and easy task.

I use it on a daily basis.

Vendor risk assessment and identity breach sections are also very effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about UpGuard?

There is nothing that I dislike about this.

But I think there should be a customized dashboard dedicated for each country which can be easy to find out by country wise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is UpGuard solving and how is that benefiting you?

UpGuard has been a All-in-one tool to assess vulnerabilities, vendors, third party risk management.

It has easy-to-use User Interface which help us to go through every module easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.