UpGuard

UpGuard is a third-party risk and attack surface management platform, built to let a security team monitor, assess and reduce vendor risk alongside its own external exposure. Its current positioning singles out a problem most vendor risk tools do not address: 62 percent of security leaders cannot prove their programme is reducing risk.

That framing shapes the product. UpGuard's answer is evidence, turning a security decision into something with citations attached that can be defended to a board, auditors, compliance and customers. For a security leader whose difficulty is justifying spend rather than finding issues, that is a meaningfully different proposition from a scoring dashboard.

AI risk is the newest area and is treated as two distinct problems. The AI Security Center governs the AI a workforce is already using rather than pretending adoption has not happened, and separate capability surfaces shadow AI and human risk hiding inside an organisation. Alongside that, the platform monitors an attack surface and AI threats with the aim of catching exposure before compromise.

The core platform covers security ratings, continuous monitoring, assessment, reporting and integrations, with managed services available for teams without the capacity to run the programme themselves. Industry-specific material addresses higher education security teams needing continuous automated visibility, and financial services firms securing customer data. UpGuard publishes ongoing research on cyber security issues and runs virtual summits for practitioners. Pricing is not published on the site.