CloudSEK vs ZeroFox: 2026 Comparison

CloudSEK vs ZeroFox
Category	UpGuard	CloudSEK	ZeroFox
General summary	UpGuard manages cyber risk everywhere it lives: your vendors, your internet-facing attack surface, and your workforce. You get one platform that connects all three risk areas instead of separate tools and spreadsheets stitched together. A risk in one surfaces in the others automatically. A breached vendor flags your own exposure. A leaked employee credential links straight to the account and the vendor involved. AI handles the repetitive work of triaging alerts, reviewing vendor evidence, and completing questionnaires. That means lean security teams can run programs that would otherwise need much bigger teams. UpGuard fits mid-market teams, deploys quickly, and slots in without replacing what you already have.	CloudSEK uses graph-based intelligence and autonomous AI agents to map external digital risks into predictive attack path intelligence. The platform constructs an attacker's blueprint by connecting scattered signals across the surface, deep, and dark web via its XVigil and BVigil modules, and even extends monitoring to exposed AI infrastructure such as shadow AI and vector databases. Enterprises typically choose CloudSEK when they need targeted, signal-based threat intelligence to predict and disrupt chained exposures. However, while CloudSEK is good for tracing technical attack paths and dark web exposures, it treats third-party security primarily as an external threat feed rather than a complete, workflow-driven vendor risk management (VRM) platform.	ZeroFox provides external cybersecurity, brand protection, and threat intelligence through a single digital risk protection platform. It relies on AI-driven asset discovery, along with human validation, to identify brand impersonations and phishing infrastructure outside your traditional corporate network. Large enterprises and mid-market teams turn to ZeroFox when they want to automate the disruption lifecycle to dismantle malicious external profiles and domains directly. However, while ZeroFox works for threat defense and external takedowns, other platforms provide deeper security ratings and automated third-party vendor risk management solutions.
Key strengths	UpGuard unifies vendor, attack surface, and workforce risk in one console. Customers describe finally seeing the whole picture, rather than paying for three tools that each cover only part of it. UpGuard also surfaces exposures that ratings tools and scanners miss, without the multi-week delay of a typical scan cycle. Lean teams can run the entire program without expanding headcount or adding a managed service.	CloudSEK focuses on coverage of the deep, dark, and surface web, combined with managed takedown services, for a more hands-on, proactive approach. The platform has specialized scanners for different asset categories, which may appeal to technical decision-makers.	ZeroFox stops threats by combining external visibility with an automated remediation network backed by analysts. It tracks brand and corporate assets across hundreds of digital platforms, including social media, app stores, forums, and dark web channels, to catch phishing schemes and brand clones.
Key weaknesses	UpGuard focuses on managing live, connected risk, not heavy, standalone compliance software. Full governance features, including policy and controls management, arrive later this year. Teams that need a mature governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) system of record today can run UpGuard alongside one for now. UpGuard also doesn’t translate risk into dollar figures. If financial risk quantification is a must-have, factor that into your evaluation.	Each CloudSEK product is sold separately, which can lead to higher costs for customers who need the platform's full functionality. Additionally, some users report that using CloudSEK incurs operational overhead in managing high volumes of false positives. It also lacks the integrated compliance frameworks and automated security questionnaire tools available through comprehensive third-party risk management (TPRM) platforms.	As ZeroFox covers so many external threat environments, it has some operational constraints that you'd need to evaluate. Some users report false alerts and high noise, which can cause alert fatigue and require you to spend more time sorting through insignificant signals.
Usability and learning curve	Teams deploy quickly and get up and running without an extended onboarding period. New employees can learn the interface without lengthy training. A single console consolidates workflows that would otherwise require multiple tools, reducing the ongoing burden of learning and maintaining separate systems. Operating the platform doesn’t require a professional services engagement.	CloudSEK's unified platform focuses on modular dashboards and an interactive intelligence graph to centralize data across surface-, deep-, and dark-web vectors. Navigating the high-level digital assets and brand protection feeds is relatively straightforward out of the box. However, you may find that onboarding requires manual intervention to build custom keyword rules and filter out duplicate alerts.	The user interface is based on an operational command center that provides rapid visibility and streamlines workflows. It uses role-based access control (RBAC) and landing dashboards to show pre-validated external threat data directly to your security teams. While navigating the centralized alert queue is intuitive, you may find that configuring asset seed groups and dialing in specific threat thresholds requires intentional onboarding to maximize the platform's AI monitoring capabilities.
Cyber risk data accuracy	UpGuard’s data remains current. Vendor postures refresh continuously, and users can initiate a scan on demand instead of waiting for a fixed cycle. UpGuard attributes findings accurately, so teams do not spend weeks correcting assets assigned to the wrong company, a common issue with ratings tools. Threat Monitoring scans the open, deep, and dark web, along with social media, for leaked data, exposed credentials, and brand impersonation. AI filters out noise so the alerts that reach your team are worth acting on.	CloudSEK uses broad internet scanning and scraping of the dark web, forums, marketplaces, and encrypted communications like Telegram to compile its threat feeds. While this provides visibility into brand impersonation and leaked credentials, it comes with trade-offs in data accuracy. As the platform prioritizes rapid signal collection to map out predictive attack paths, its automated pipelines may surface raw, unverified data.	ZeroFox ingests billions of external data signals by continuously scanning public-facing digital platforms, app stores, domain registries, and dark web networks. This data is automatically parsed by intent-based AI models that flag unauthorized brand use and compromised credentials. As harvesting large amounts of unstructured public data surfaces noise, the software pairs its machine learning (ML) layer with its in-house security operations center (SOC) analyst network. This human validation filters out benign matches and verifies threats before they reach your dashboard, which may help lower false positives.
Vendor risk management features	UpGuard runs the complete third-party risk management (TPRM) process in one platform: onboarding, assessing, remediating, monitoring, and reporting on vendors. Each vendor’s live external exposure and any linked leaked credentials appear directly within the vendor program, so teams can act on verified risk instead of relying on paperwork. AI-powered security questionnaires read vendor evidence and complete assessments automatically, cutting completion time by up to 95%. Instant risk assessments return a point-in-time report in under a minute, mapped to frameworks like ISO 27001 and NIST CSF 2.0.	CloudSEK addresses third-party security through its software supply chain model, SVigil, which approaches VRM from an external threat intelligence perspective. The platform automatically fingerprints your digital ecosystem to discover hidden vendors and discrepancies, then continuously scans those entities for exposed assets. However, because CloudSEK treats third-party security as an external attack surface feed, it doesn't have a vendor risk lifecycle that includes tools for onboarding governance and automated compliance mapping.	ZeroFox flags supply chain vulnerabilities through its Third-Party Supplier Watch module, which expands its external attack-surface intelligence to include your partner and vendor domains. It doesn't manage the end-to-end administrative compliance lifecycle, including onboarding questionnaires and structured risk assessments. The platform focuses on continuous monitoring and the linkage of threat intelligence.
Attack surface management features	UpGuard continuously monitors your internet-facing footprint. It maps assets, flags exposures such as misconfigurations, expired certificates, and open ports, and ranks remediation priorities. The UpGuard platform also detects typosquatting and lookalike domains set up to impersonate your brand before they’re used for phishing. Because attack surface monitoring runs alongside vendor and workforce risk, an exposed asset or leaked credential automatically links to the person and vendor involved. This gives teams visibility into both external exposure and vendor risk in a single view.	CloudSEK drives its external attack surface management (EASM) with automated discovery engines and graph-based AI to map your digital footprint. By continuously scanning internet-facing infrastructure, the platform builds a dynamic inventory of active domains, subdomains, SSL certificates, cloud buckets, and open ports.	Starting with foundational seed data such as primary domains, ZeroFox uses an external attack surface management (EASM) engine to continuously scan for unknown internet-facing infrastructure, including subdomains, unassigned IP addresses, active CIDR blocks, and shadow IT cloud apps. ZeroFox feeds discovered network exposures directly into an integrated remediation path that features AI-driven mitigation advice.
Customer support	UpGuard supports every customer across all plan tiers, from the smallest plan to the largest. Support teams assist with both technical setup and larger program decisions. Customers frequently cite responsive, hands-on support as a reason they continue with UpGuard.	CloudSEK uses a tiered support framework that includes multi-channel technical assistance with dedicated account management. Enterprise packages include a standard ticketing system as well as phone, email, and live chat options. Customers also get a Client Account Manager and a dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) for routine operational guidance.	ZeroFox runs an analyst-driven support model through its 24/7/365 OnWatch managed services team. Standard platform subscriptions give your team access to cross-channel support through phone, email, and a centralized portal. ZeroFox assigns you a dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM), as well as a specialized onboarding launch team.
Workflow automation	Risk Automations turns a risk signal into action across the platform, with no code and no engineering ticket. On the vendor side, it automates onboarding from questionnaire data, triages vendor score drops, schedules recurring vendor reports, and opens remediation tickets in ServiceNow or Jira. On the threat side, a Breach Risk detection can trigger a workflow that alerts Teams or Slack and runs a system-level fix, like blocking a malicious IP or forcing a credential reset. This is the difference between a tool that reports on risk and one that resolves it.	The platform focuses its workflow automation around AI-driven correlation and graph-based analysis via Nexus AI to automatically bundle scattered threat indicators into unified attack paths. Native API integrations support connectivity across a range of applications, including security information and event management (SIEM) platforms and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) tools.	ZeroFox connects its external digital risk data directly into your internal security stack. Through its app library, the platform offers pre-built connectors and syslog data forwarding to push threat intelligence into internal security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) tools. This allows SOCs to automatically ingest dark web, domain, and social media alerts, syncing external risk data with internal engines.
Artificial intelligence features	UpGuard’s AI performs specific, defined tasks, rather than vague “AI-powered” work. The AI Threat Analyst sorts and scores incoming threats across your attack surface, the dark web, and social media. It clears out approximately 60% of alerts as noise, so your team only reviews what matters. The same triage logic extends to vendor and workforce signals as well. Every AI result carries a citation back to the source, so your team can verify it before acting.	CloudSEK is an AI-native cyber intelligence platform whose entire architecture is centered on machine learning (ML) and goal-directed AI agents. Nexus AI is a central correlation engine that ingests threat data from the platform's targeted modules. CloudSEK uses these autonomous AI agents to simulate attacker logic and construct a dynamic, graph-based digital blueprint of your organization.	ZeroFox embeds its AI across its platform to automatically ingest and analyze external datasets. The engine uses proprietary ML models, computer vision for facial and logo recognition, and specialized natural language processes (NLP) to detect impersonations and intent-based phishing narratives.
API and integrations	A well-documented REST API and webhooks let teams pull risk data into their own tools and trigger actions programmatically, without waiting on engineering support. For no-code work, Risk Automations adds more than 100 native integrations, including Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft Entra, Slack, and Cloudflare. A Universal API Connector Node extends its reach to any open API.	The platform has over 50 native applications and over 100 integrations designed to automate threat resolution and incident windows. Its API-first architecture streams data into SIEM platforms, SOAR, and ticketing systems. This allows you to transform raw external intelligence into automated defensive playbooks, ensuring vulnerabilities, credential leaks, and brand threats identified by CloudSEK are automatically enriched or escalated within the tools your team uses every day.	The platform uses a native API, streaming webhooks, and standard syslog forwarding to push external threat data across enterprise defenses. Built on a modern microservices architecture, the platform's app library connects you to hundreds of pre-built marketplace integrations and technology connectors.
Purchasing & licensing transparency	UpGuard publishes its pricing rather than hiding it behind a sales call. A free tier lets teams monitor up to five vendors and use Trust Exchange, UpGuard’s AI-powered questionnaire tool, at no cost. Paid Vendor Risk plans start at USD 1,750 per month, billed annually. Teams can start with one product and add others as they scale. One license covers both monitoring and assessments, so pricing doesn’t fragment across separate products.	CloudSEK doesn't make its pricing or packages publicly available on its website. You'd need to request a demo by filling out a standard form in order to receive details about costs and licensing.	Pricing varies by module and by the specific solutions you need. ZeroFox's website presents you with a short questionnaire before displaying recommended packages. However, while the website shows what's included in each plan, it doesn't display pricing specifically. You'd need to request pricing by entering your business email address into a form.
Customers	UpGuard customers include Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read UpGuard’s customer stories to learn more.	Notable customers include Bajaj Finserv, Flipkart, GoTo, and Swiggy. Customer logos include Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises.	Notable customers include Loveholidays, Simply Business, Nokia, and True Citrus. ZeroFox's customer base is broad, spanning education and retail.
G2 rating Accurate as of March 2025	More than 700 verified reviews give UpGuard a 4.5 out of 5 rating on G2. UpGuard also holds G2’s top ranking as the leader in Third-Party & Supplier Risk Management for 15 consecutive quarters. The 2026 G2 Best Software Awards recognized UpGuard as one of the Top 100 Global Software Companies. Among verified reviewers, 98% give UpGuard four- or five-star ratings, and 94% approve of its product direction.	4.8, based on 138 reviews.	4.4, based on 134 reviews.
Security ratings	944 / 950	811 / 950	840 / 950

General summary

UpGuard manages cyber risk everywhere it lives: your vendors, your internet-facing attack surface, and your workforce. You get one platform that connects all three risk areas instead of separate tools and spreadsheets stitched together. A risk in one surfaces in the others automatically. A breached vendor flags your own exposure. A leaked employee credential links straight to the account and the vendor involved. AI handles the repetitive work of triaging alerts, reviewing vendor evidence, and completing questionnaires. That means lean security teams can run programs that would otherwise need much bigger teams. UpGuard fits mid-market teams, deploys quickly, and slots in without replacing what you already have.

CloudSEK uses graph-based intelligence and autonomous AI agents to map external digital risks into predictive attack path intelligence. The platform constructs an attacker's blueprint by connecting scattered signals across the surface, deep, and dark web via its XVigil and BVigil modules, and even extends monitoring to exposed AI infrastructure such as shadow AI and vector databases. Enterprises typically choose CloudSEK when they need targeted, signal-based threat intelligence to predict and disrupt chained exposures. However, while CloudSEK is good for tracing technical attack paths and dark web exposures, it treats third-party security primarily as an external threat feed rather than a complete, workflow-driven vendor risk management (VRM) platform.

ZeroFox provides external cybersecurity, brand protection, and threat intelligence through a single digital risk protection platform. It relies on AI-driven asset discovery, along with human validation, to identify brand impersonations and phishing infrastructure outside your traditional corporate network. Large enterprises and mid-market teams turn to ZeroFox when they want to automate the disruption lifecycle to dismantle malicious external profiles and domains directly. However, while ZeroFox works for threat defense and external takedowns, other platforms provide deeper security ratings and automated third-party vendor risk management solutions.

Key strengths

UpGuard unifies vendor, attack surface, and workforce risk in one console. Customers describe finally seeing the whole picture, rather than paying for three tools that each cover only part of it. UpGuard also surfaces exposures that ratings tools and scanners miss, without the multi-week delay of a typical scan cycle. Lean teams can run the entire program without expanding headcount or adding a managed service.

CloudSEK focuses on coverage of the deep, dark, and surface web, combined with managed takedown services, for a more hands-on, proactive approach. The platform has specialized scanners for different asset categories, which may appeal to technical decision-makers.

ZeroFox stops threats by combining external visibility with an automated remediation network backed by analysts. It tracks brand and corporate assets across hundreds of digital platforms, including social media, app stores, forums, and dark web channels, to catch phishing schemes and brand clones.

Key weaknesses

UpGuard focuses on managing live, connected risk, not heavy, standalone compliance software. Full governance features, including policy and controls management, arrive later this year. Teams that need a mature governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) system of record today can run UpGuard alongside one for now. UpGuard also doesn’t translate risk into dollar figures. If financial risk quantification is a must-have, factor that into your evaluation.

Each CloudSEK product is sold separately, which can lead to higher costs for customers who need the platform's full functionality. Additionally, some users report that using CloudSEK incurs operational overhead in managing high volumes of false positives. It also lacks the integrated compliance frameworks and automated security questionnaire tools available through comprehensive third-party risk management (TPRM) platforms.

As ZeroFox covers so many external threat environments, it has some operational constraints that you'd need to evaluate. Some users report false alerts and high noise, which can cause alert fatigue and require you to spend more time sorting through insignificant signals.

Usability and learning curve

Teams deploy quickly and get up and running without an extended onboarding period. New employees can learn the interface without lengthy training. A single console consolidates workflows that would otherwise require multiple tools, reducing the ongoing burden of learning and maintaining separate systems. Operating the platform doesn’t require a professional services engagement.

CloudSEK's unified platform focuses on modular dashboards and an interactive intelligence graph to centralize data across surface-, deep-, and dark-web vectors. Navigating the high-level digital assets and brand protection feeds is relatively straightforward out of the box. However, you may find that onboarding requires manual intervention to build custom keyword rules and filter out duplicate alerts.

The user interface is based on an operational command center that provides rapid visibility and streamlines workflows. It uses role-based access control (RBAC) and landing dashboards to show pre-validated external threat data directly to your security teams. While navigating the centralized alert queue is intuitive, you may find that configuring asset seed groups and dialing in specific threat thresholds requires intentional onboarding to maximize the platform's AI monitoring capabilities.

Cyber risk data accuracy

UpGuard’s data remains current. Vendor postures refresh continuously, and users can initiate a scan on demand instead of waiting for a fixed cycle. UpGuard attributes findings accurately, so teams do not spend weeks correcting assets assigned to the wrong company, a common issue with ratings tools. Threat Monitoring scans the open, deep, and dark web, along with social media, for leaked data, exposed credentials, and brand impersonation. AI filters out noise so the alerts that reach your team are worth acting on.

CloudSEK uses broad internet scanning and scraping of the dark web, forums, marketplaces, and encrypted communications like Telegram to compile its threat feeds. While this provides visibility into brand impersonation and leaked credentials, it comes with trade-offs in data accuracy. As the platform prioritizes rapid signal collection to map out predictive attack paths, its automated pipelines may surface raw, unverified data.

ZeroFox ingests billions of external data signals by continuously scanning public-facing digital platforms, app stores, domain registries, and dark web networks. This data is automatically parsed by intent-based AI models that flag unauthorized brand use and compromised credentials. As harvesting large amounts of unstructured public data surfaces noise, the software pairs its machine learning (ML) layer with its in-house security operations center (SOC) analyst network. This human validation filters out benign matches and verifies threats before they reach your dashboard, which may help lower false positives.

Vendor risk management features

UpGuard runs the complete third-party risk management (TPRM) process in one platform: onboarding, assessing, remediating, monitoring, and reporting on vendors. Each vendor’s live external exposure and any linked leaked credentials appear directly within the vendor program, so teams can act on verified risk instead of relying on paperwork. AI-powered security questionnaires read vendor evidence and complete assessments automatically, cutting completion time by up to 95%. Instant risk assessments return a point-in-time report in under a minute, mapped to frameworks like ISO 27001 and NIST CSF 2.0.

CloudSEK addresses third-party security through its software supply chain model, SVigil, which approaches VRM from an external threat intelligence perspective. The platform automatically fingerprints your digital ecosystem to discover hidden vendors and discrepancies, then continuously scans those entities for exposed assets. However, because CloudSEK treats third-party security as an external attack surface feed, it doesn't have a vendor risk lifecycle that includes tools for onboarding governance and automated compliance mapping.

ZeroFox flags supply chain vulnerabilities through its Third-Party Supplier Watch module, which expands its external attack-surface intelligence to include your partner and vendor domains. It doesn't manage the end-to-end administrative compliance lifecycle, including onboarding questionnaires and structured risk assessments. The platform focuses on continuous monitoring and the linkage of threat intelligence.

Attack surface management features

UpGuard continuously monitors your internet-facing footprint. It maps assets, flags exposures such as misconfigurations, expired certificates, and open ports, and ranks remediation priorities. The UpGuard platform also detects typosquatting and lookalike domains set up to impersonate your brand before they’re used for phishing. Because attack surface monitoring runs alongside vendor and workforce risk, an exposed asset or leaked credential automatically links to the person and vendor involved. This gives teams visibility into both external exposure and vendor risk in a single view.

CloudSEK drives its external attack surface management (EASM) with automated discovery engines and graph-based AI to map your digital footprint. By continuously scanning internet-facing infrastructure, the platform builds a dynamic inventory of active domains, subdomains, SSL certificates, cloud buckets, and open ports.

Starting with foundational seed data such as primary domains, ZeroFox uses an external attack surface management (EASM) engine to continuously scan for unknown internet-facing infrastructure, including subdomains, unassigned IP addresses, active CIDR blocks, and shadow IT cloud apps. ZeroFox feeds discovered network exposures directly into an integrated remediation path that features AI-driven mitigation advice.

Customer support

UpGuard supports every customer across all plan tiers, from the smallest plan to the largest. Support teams assist with both technical setup and larger program decisions. Customers frequently cite responsive, hands-on support as a reason they continue with UpGuard.

CloudSEK uses a tiered support framework that includes multi-channel technical assistance with dedicated account management. Enterprise packages include a standard ticketing system as well as phone, email, and live chat options. Customers also get a Client Account Manager and a dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) for routine operational guidance.

ZeroFox runs an analyst-driven support model through its 24/7/365 OnWatch managed services team. Standard platform subscriptions give your team access to cross-channel support through phone, email, and a centralized portal. ZeroFox assigns you a dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM), as well as a specialized onboarding launch team.

Workflow automation

Risk Automations turns a risk signal into action across the platform, with no code and no engineering ticket. On the vendor side, it automates onboarding from questionnaire data, triages vendor score drops, schedules recurring vendor reports, and opens remediation tickets in ServiceNow or Jira. On the threat side, a Breach Risk detection can trigger a workflow that alerts Teams or Slack and runs a system-level fix, like blocking a malicious IP or forcing a credential reset. This is the difference between a tool that reports on risk and one that resolves it.

The platform focuses its workflow automation around AI-driven correlation and graph-based analysis via Nexus AI to automatically bundle scattered threat indicators into unified attack paths. Native API integrations support connectivity across a range of applications, including security information and event management (SIEM) platforms and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) tools.

ZeroFox connects its external digital risk data directly into your internal security stack. Through its app library, the platform offers pre-built connectors and syslog data forwarding to push threat intelligence into internal security information and event management (SIEM) and security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) tools. This allows SOCs to automatically ingest dark web, domain, and social media alerts, syncing external risk data with internal engines.

Artificial intelligence features

UpGuard’s AI performs specific, defined tasks, rather than vague “AI-powered” work. The AI Threat Analyst sorts and scores incoming threats across your attack surface, the dark web, and social media. It clears out approximately 60% of alerts as noise, so your team only reviews what matters. The same triage logic extends to vendor and workforce signals as well. Every AI result carries a citation back to the source, so your team can verify it before acting.

CloudSEK is an AI-native cyber intelligence platform whose entire architecture is centered on machine learning (ML) and goal-directed AI agents. Nexus AI is a central correlation engine that ingests threat data from the platform's targeted modules. CloudSEK uses these autonomous AI agents to simulate attacker logic and construct a dynamic, graph-based digital blueprint of your organization.

ZeroFox embeds its AI across its platform to automatically ingest and analyze external datasets. The engine uses proprietary ML models, computer vision for facial and logo recognition, and specialized natural language processes (NLP) to detect impersonations and intent-based phishing narratives.

API and integrations

A well-documented REST API and webhooks let teams pull risk data into their own tools and trigger actions programmatically, without waiting on engineering support. For no-code work, Risk Automations adds more than 100 native integrations, including Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft Entra, Slack, and Cloudflare. A Universal API Connector Node extends its reach to any open API.

The platform has over 50 native applications and over 100 integrations designed to automate threat resolution and incident windows. Its API-first architecture streams data into SIEM platforms, SOAR, and ticketing systems. This allows you to transform raw external intelligence into automated defensive playbooks, ensuring vulnerabilities, credential leaks, and brand threats identified by CloudSEK are automatically enriched or escalated within the tools your team uses every day.

The platform uses a native API, streaming webhooks, and standard syslog forwarding to push external threat data across enterprise defenses. Built on a modern microservices architecture, the platform's app library connects you to hundreds of pre-built marketplace integrations and technology connectors.

Purchasing & licensing transparency

UpGuard publishes its pricing rather than hiding it behind a sales call. A free tier lets teams monitor up to five vendors and use Trust Exchange, UpGuard’s AI-powered questionnaire tool, at no cost. Paid Vendor Risk plans start at USD 1,750 per month, billed annually. Teams can start with one product and add others as they scale. One license covers both monitoring and assessments, so pricing doesn’t fragment across separate products.

CloudSEK doesn't make its pricing or packages publicly available on its website. You'd need to request a demo by filling out a standard form in order to receive details about costs and licensing.

Pricing varies by module and by the specific solutions you need. ZeroFox's website presents you with a short questionnaire before displaying recommended packages. However, while the website shows what's included in each plan, it doesn't display pricing specifically. You'd need to request pricing by entering your business email address into a form.

Customers

UpGuard customers include Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read UpGuard’s customer stories to learn more.

Notable customers include Bajaj Finserv, Flipkart, GoTo, and Swiggy. Customer logos include Fortune 500 companies and global enterprises.

Notable customers include Loveholidays, Simply Business, Nokia, and True Citrus. ZeroFox's customer base is broad, spanning education and retail.

G2 rating Accurate as of March 2025

More than 700 verified reviews give UpGuard a 4.5 out of 5 rating on G2. UpGuard also holds G2’s top ranking as the leader in Third-Party & Supplier Risk Management for 15 consecutive quarters. The 2026 G2 Best Software Awards recognized UpGuard as one of the Top 100 Global Software Companies. Among verified reviewers, 98% give UpGuard four- or five-star ratings, and 94% approve of its product direction.

4.8, based on 138 reviews.

4.4, based on 134 reviews.

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CloudSEK vs ZeroFox product overview

Learn more about the products and how they compare.

We assess three breach risk solutions — CloudSEK, ZeroFox, and UpGuard — to help you make an informed decision before investing in the right solution for your needs.

CloudSEK Overview

CloudSEK is an AI-based digital risk and threat intelligence platform that uses graph-based intelligence and goal-directed AI agents to map an organization’s external exposures. The agents simulate attacker logic to build a graph of the organization’s digital footprint, which CloudSEK uses to produce what it calls predictive attack path intelligence.

The platform is made up of separately sold products: XVigil for digital risk protection across the surface, deep, and dark web, BeVigil Enterprise for external attack surface management, and SVigil for software supply chain and third-party risk from an external threat intelligence perspective. Nexus AI acts as the central correlation engine, combining threat indicators from these products into unified attack paths. Monitoring also extends to exposed AI infrastructure, including shadow AI and vector databases.

CloudSEK is known for targeted, signal-based threat intelligence, broad dark web coverage, and managed takedown services. It treats third-party security mainly as an external threat feed rather than a full vendor risk management program.

ZeroFox Overview

ZeroFox provides external cybersecurity, brand protection, and threat intelligence through a single digital risk protection platform. It combines AI-driven asset discovery with human validation to identify brand impersonations and phishing infrastructure outside the corporate network.

The platform is known for disruption: it pairs external visibility with an analyst-backed remediation network that takes down malicious profiles and domains. It tracks brand and corporate assets across hundreds of digital platforms, including social media, app stores, forums, and dark web channels, using machine learning, computer vision for logo and facial recognition, and natural language processing.

ZeroFox serves large enterprises and mid-market teams that want to automate the takedown lifecycle. Its Third-Party Supplier Watch module extends monitoring to vendor domains, but it does not manage vendor questionnaires or structured risk assessments.

UpGuard Overview

UpGuard is a third-party risk and attack surface management platform that helps global organizations prevent data breaches, monitor third-party vendors, and improve their security posture. UpGuard’s platform uses proprietary security ratings, data leak detection capabilities, and remediation workflows to proactively identify security exposures. UpGuard’s all-in-one third-party risk and attack surface management software intelligently groups risks into six categories: website risks, email security, network security, phishing & malware, reputation risk, and brand protection.

Usability and the learning curve

CloudSEK: CloudSEK uses modular dashboards and an interactive intelligence graph, and navigating its digital asset and brand protection feeds is relatively straightforward. Onboarding can require manual work to build custom keyword rules and filter duplicate alerts, and users report ongoing effort to manage false positives.

ZeroFox: ZeroFox’s interface is built around an operational command center, with role-based access control and landing dashboards that show pre-validated threat data. The central alert queue is intuitive to navigate, but configuring asset seed groups and tuning threat thresholds takes deliberate onboarding to get full value from its AI monitoring.

UpGuard: High-level summation of risk with the ability to drill down into precise technical details. Each risk is prioritized based on extensive research conducted by the in-house security team, and where possible remediation and protection suggestions are provided.

Capabilities

Both vendors monitor the dark web, discover external assets, and offer takedowns; the decision-relevant difference is that CloudSEK relies on automated AI correlation to map attack paths, while ZeroFox adds human analyst validation before alerts reach customers.

CloudSEK combines external attack surface management, covering domains, subdomains, SSL certificates, cloud buckets, and open ports, with monitoring of the dark web, forums, marketplaces, and encrypted channels such as Telegram for leaked credentials and brand impersonation. SVigil fingerprints an organization’s digital ecosystem to identify unknown vendors and scan them for exposed assets. Its main strength is attack path mapping: Nexus AI links scattered indicators into chained exposures and scores them by business impact rather than a static grade. Its main limitation is data quality: because the platform prioritizes rapid signal collection, its automated pipelines can surface raw, unverified data, which adds false-positive overhead for analysts.

ZeroFox monitors social media, app stores, domain registries, forums, and the dark web, and its EASM engine discovers subdomains, IP ranges, and shadow IT cloud apps from seed data such as primary domains. Its main strength is validated disruption: in-house SOC analysts filter benign matches before alerts are delivered, and an analyst-backed remediation network takes down impersonating profiles, phishing domains, and brand clones, with annual takedown allowances built into each package. Its main limitation is noise and integration cost: some users still report false alerts and high alert volume, and connecting to tools such as Splunk, SIEMs, or SOARs requires a separately priced API connector. Neither vendor manages the vendor risk lifecycle, such as onboarding questionnaires, compliance mapping, and structured assessments.

UpGuard: Offers real-time visibility into any third-party vendor’s risk posture and security rating along with total automation for managing vendor due diligence and remediation programs.

Community support

CloudSEK: CloudSEK uses a tiered support model, with enterprise packages including ticketing plus phone, email, and live chat support. Customers are assigned a Client Account Manager and a dedicated Customer Success Manager. The entry page does not describe a blog, webinars, academy, or events, so buyers who rely on these should ask what training and community resources are included.

ZeroFox: ZeroFox runs an analyst-driven support model through its 24/7/365 OnWatch managed services team. Standard subscriptions include support by phone, email, and a central portal, along with a dedicated customer success manager and an onboarding launch team. Buyers who rely on training or events should confirm which resources are included with their subscription.

UpGuard: 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 the breach research blog has uncovered and secured some of the largest data breaches. UpGuard’s free weekly Breach Newsletter informs 20,000+ subscribers of the latest global data breaches.

Release rate

CloudSEK: Public information on CloudSEK’s release cadence is limited, and the entry page does not reference public release notes. Because the platform spans several separately sold products and an AI correlation engine, buyers should ask how updates to each product are released and communicated.

ZeroFox: Public information on ZeroFox’s release cadence is limited, and the entry page does not reference public release notes. Because its detection relies on AI models and a growing set of monitored platforms, buyers should ask how new platform coverage and model updates are released and communicated.

UpGuard: UpGuard has adopted DevOps principles internally to develop, test, and release software continuously, ensuring fast, consistent, and safe releases. UpGuard has a regular release rate every two weeks, with all features, changes, and improvements listed under UpGuard Release Notes.

Pricing and support

CloudSEK: CloudSEK does not publish pricing or tiers, and buyers must request a demo to receive a quote. Pricing is subscription-based and varies by features, coverage, and the number of assets or users, and because each product is sold separately, costs rise for customers who need the full platform. There is no free plan or free trial. See CloudSEK pricing.

ZeroFox: ZeroFox lists its packages but provides pricing only on request, after buyers select one of five use cases. Packages include the Foundation Bundle (brand monitoring and 250 takedowns per year), the Core Bundle (500 takedowns and five on-demand investigations per year), and the Premium Bundle (five intelligence search seats, 20 investigations per year, and the OnWatch Alert managed service). Brand protection features, the platform API connector, and launch configuration are add-ons, and there is no free plan or free trial, though demos are available. See ZeroFox pricing.

UpGuard: UpGuard has a fully transparent and publicly accessible pricing model which you can view here. If you have any questions, please email sales@upguard.com.

API and extensibility

CloudSEK: CloudSEK’s API-first architecture streams its threat and exposure data into SIEM platforms, SOAR tools, and ticketing systems, where findings can be enriched or escalated automatically.

ZeroFox: ZeroFox provides a native API, streaming webhooks, and syslog forwarding to push external threat data into internal security tools. Connecting to tools such as Splunk, SIEMs, or SOARs requires the platform API connector add-on.

UpGuard: Offers a standard API to pull data from UpGuard’s platform into other enterprise applications.

Third-party integrations

CloudSEK: CloudSEK offers more than 100 integrations and over 50 native applications, covering SIEM, SOAR, and ticketing categories. Specific integration products are not named on the entry page.

ZeroFox: ZeroFox’s app library offers hundreds of pre-built connectors, including SIEM and SOAR integrations such as Splunk, so security operations teams can ingest dark web, domain, and social media alerts automatically.

UpGuard: Integrates with Zapier to enable connections to 3,000+ apps; GRC platforms, ticketing systems like JIRA; VRM solutions like ServiceNow, and more.

Customers

CloudSEK: Customers include Bajaj Finserv, Flipkart, GoTo, and Swiggy.

ZeroFox: Customers include Loveholidays, Simply Business, Nokia, and True Citrus.

UpGuard: Major customers include Accenture, DuPont, Fujitsu, GAP, McAfee.

CloudSEK vs ZeroFox

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