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.
Living Security is an AI-native human risk management (HRM) platform that continuously measures, prioritizes, and reduces cybersecurity risk across an organization's workforce, including employees, contractors, and AI agents. Its Intelligence Engine correlates 300+ behavioral, identity, and threat signals from an organization's existing security stack, and its Human Risk Index (HRI) sorts individuals and groups into five distinct risk levels. Teams use these insights to focus on the small share of users driving most of the exposure and to trigger targeted action plans such as training, nudges, and automated controls. Because the platform is an analytics-and-orchestration layer that depends on integrations to generate signals, visibility is only as complete as the connected stack, and it does not provide external attack surface, vendor risk, or security ratings capabilities of its own.
Torii is primarily a SaaS management and governance platform designed to curb software and AI sprawl. By continuously tracking applications, desktop software, and shadow AI, it maps assets to human and machine identities, enabling teams to optimize spend, manage renewals, and automate offboarding workflows. While it includes identity governance (IGA) and an AI dashboard for tracking tokens and keys, its core focus remains operational. Torii is built for cost control and access management rather than deep security, meaning it provides no true threat detection, SSPM, or attack surface management.
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.
Living Security's core strength is data correlation. Its Intelligence Engine aggregates siloed signals from across an organization's existing security, identity, and training tools and connects them into a single, individual-level risk picture. The Human Risk Index translates that data into prioritized risk tiers, allowing teams to focus effort on the small percentage of users who drive the majority of exposure. The company also pairs this analytics layer with gamified and AI-personalized training content, which it positions as a driver of stronger completion and behavior-change rates. Backing all of this is a large, multi-year behavioral dataset drawn from 100+ enterprises and independently analyzed by the Cyentia Institute.
Torii's strength is application discovery: it positions itself as a top app-discovery platform, continuously finding SaaS, AI, and even desktop applications, including shadow IT, through a broad set of methods and a deep integration catalog spanning HRMS, finance, contract management, and identity providers. It pairs this with strong cost optimization and license management capabilities, helping teams reclaim unused licenses (with ~25% cost savings) and stay ahead of renewals. Torii is also known for a powerful no-code workflow automation engine that orchestrates app-lifecycle tasks, particularly automated employee onboarding and offboarding/deprovisioning, across connected systems. Backing this is enterprise-grade maturity (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, SSO-only access).
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.
The most significant consideration is that Living Security depends on integrations with an organization's existing security tools to generate its risk signals, so its insights are only as complete as the connected stack. Organizations with a thin or poorly integrated toolset will see reduced value. Some users have also noted reporting limitations, such as the lack of an out-of-the-box view for tracking metrics against an exact training start date.
A few product limitations stand out for buyers. Reviewers cite gaps in integration coverage: while Torii's catalog is broad, certain tools lack direct integrations, which can limit functionality. The workflow engine, though powerful, has editing limitations: the absence of branching/merging logic and of import/export for workflows, and complex scenarios such as detailed user provisioning or license reconciliation sometimes require manual adjustment. Reporting depth is another recurring request, with some wanting richer insights and a more complete view of usage and access changes across all apps.
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.
Living Security emphasizes a low-friction onboarding experience, with a quick-start path to get a tenant up and running in minutes, along with a step-by-step guide for setting up an organization. The interface centers on visual, real-time dashboards that present risk at the organization, segment, department, and individual levels, and an embedded AI assistant (Livvy) is available throughout the platform to answer questions and surface insights, which lowers the learning curve for new users. The onboarding effort is the upfront integration work of connecting identity, training, phishing, and email security tools so the platform has the data to begin correlation.
Torii is generally regarded as intuitive and easy to use, with a clean interface and strong day-to-day usability scores. Initial onboarding centers on connecting integrations to build a complete app and identity inventory. The no-code automation builder is approachable for common tasks like onboarding and offboarding, though building more complex, branching workflows carries a steeper learning curve. Overall, the learning curve is moderate and well-supported, with the main effort being the upfront work of integrating the SaaS estate.
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.
Living Security's data accuracy is anchored in its Human Risk Index, a dynamic score (1–1000, each identity starting at 500) built from both risky and vigilant user behaviors plus external threat signals. Rather than an additive tally, the HRI is a probabilistic model that weighs risks and correlations across 250+ measured behaviors drawn from three pillars: employee actions (phishing and training results), identity and access signals, and real-time threat intelligence. Because these signals are pulled directly from an organization's own systems of record through integrations, the data tends to be high-fidelity for behavioral and user-risk context, though it is behavior- and identity-based rather than independent external scanning, and the exact HRI weighting is proprietary.
Torii excels at discovery by combining signals from direct integrations, a browser extension, SSO, finance systems, and email to uncover shadow IT and map it to human and machine identities and entitlements. While automated ingestion keeps these logs current, data depth drops significantly for applications lacking direct API connections. Furthermore, the data itself remains structurally tailored for IT operational management, tracking spend and ownership rather than security telemetry.
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.
Dedicated vendor (third-party) risk management is outside Living Security's scope. While the platform extends its human-risk monitoring to contractors and other extended-workforce identities, this coverage applies to individuals, not to company-level third-party risk management. It does not provide the core TPRM workflows (vendor security questionnaires, compliance assessments, remediation tracking, or continuous vendor monitoring) that define a dedicated VRM platform, so organizations needing third-party risk management would require a separate tool.
Dedicated third-party/vendor risk management is not a core function of Torii, and it lacks TPRM lifecycle workflows such as security questionnaires, formal vendor security assessments and scoring, and continuous vendor posture monitoring. Its vendor-related capabilities are operational rather than security-focused: it manages SaaS vendor contracts, renewals, spend, and ownership, and can assign basic risk scores and owners to discovered apps to flag shadow IT. This helps teams keep an inventory of which vendors are in use and govern access to them, but organizations needing vendor security due diligence and risk assessments would require a dedicated VRM/TPRM tool.
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.
Attack surface management is not a function of Living Security. The platform does not discover, inventory, or monitor an organization's external-facing digital assets (domains, IPs, exposed services, or certificates) the way a dedicated ASM or security-ratings tool does. Its Intelligence Engine ingests public OSINT and external threat-intelligence signals, but these serve as contextual inputs for individual human risk scoring rather than for mapping or continuously monitoring an external attack surface. Organizations requiring ASM capabilities would need a separate solution.
Torii does not perform external attack surface management and is not a security-focused attack-surface tool. What it provides is visibility into the SaaS and identity attack surface from a management lens: a continuous inventory of every app (including shadow SaaS and AI), the human and machine identities that can access them, and their entitlements and ownership. This inventory helps teams understand and shrink unmanaged apps and access sprawl, but it stops short of security-oriented attack-surface analysis and offers no internet-facing ASM. Teams needing security attack-surface management would pair Torii with a dedicated tool.
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.
Self-service options include the "Support Garden" knowledge base, a ticket-based support request system, and a customer community for submitting ideas and feedback. Support is structured around an always-on AI chat assistant that serves as the first line of help and escalates unresolved issues to the support team, backed by a standard ticket queue that aims to respond within 48 business hours. For time-sensitive issues, a separate critical-support path handles urgent needs outside standard business hours (Monday–Friday, 8 am–5 pm CT). In-product guidance is delivered through an embedded Resource Center offering walkthroughs and quick access to the knowledge base and community.
Customers are paired with a dedicated Customer Success Manager and supported by a customer-experience team that emphasizes onboarding, education, and ongoing partnership, backed by a dedicated onboarding portal and a regularly updated help center. Torii reports strong, quantified metrics: roughly 90% of requests are answered in under two hours, and about 80% are resolved on first contact. A regular webinar series and customer education round out the experience, and support is cited as one of Torii's best attributes.
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.
Living Security's Actions framework lets teams build playbooks that trigger automatically when an individual's risk rises, deploying targeted training, nudges, manager alerts, access-control changes, and ITSM tickets without manual intervention. The company positions this as automating 60–80% of remediation while keeping a human in the loop for oversight, with just-in-time coaching delivered directly in Slack and Teams. Tailored, risk-based action plans are generated and executed from within the platform itself. As with its risk signals, the reach of automated controls depends on the upstream and downstream tools an organization has integrated.
Torii's no-code automation engine lets teams build custom workflows that orchestrate the full app lifecycle: automating user onboarding (provisioning access to the right apps), access requests and approvals, license reclamation and budget enforcement, renewal management, and especially employee offboarding, where it deprovisions access across connected apps the moment someone leaves. Actions execute across integrated systems, with audit evidence streamed to SIEM and APIs/IaC available to automate at scale. The limitation is the workflow editor itself as it lacks branching/merging logic and import/export, so the most complex provisioning or reconciliation scenarios can still require manual adjustment.
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.
Artificial intelligence is central to Living Security's current positioning as an "AI-native" platform. Its AI engine, branded Livvy, is trained on what is described as the industry's largest HRM dataset and unifies 300+ behavioral, identity, and threat signals into a Human Risk Index for every identity. Livvy spans prediction (flagging risk before it becomes an incident), guidance (surfacing prioritized recommendations with stated reasoning, confidence scores, and predicted impact), and action (driving automated remediation playbooks). AI is also applied to content creation, generating risk-aligned, hyper-personalized training.
Torii markets an always-on agentic AI that continuously monitors the SaaS estate, surfaces real-time alerts, and proposes fixes while keeping changes human-approved, positioning itself as a SaaS governance copilot. AI also supports its core discovery and prioritization, helping classify discovered apps and rank recommended actions based on a team's goals. Separately, its AI Dashboard governs the organization's AI usage, forecasts AI spend, and monitors API keys, tokens, and agents. These capabilities are useful and expanding, but Torii's AI is oriented toward SaaS governance, discovery, and automation rather than security detection or a deeply branded analyst copilot.
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.
Through its Technology Alliance Program, Living Security maintains pre-built connectors to dozens of widely used security, identity, and HR systems, including Microsoft (Azure, Defender, Intune), Okta, SailPoint, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Mimecast, Abnormal, Cofense, KnowBe4, Netskope, Zscaler, Rapid7, and Workday. Its Entity Graph unifies identity data across HRIS, SSO, endpoint, and email sources into a single user profile, and integrations also support outbound actions such as ITSM ticketing and access-control changes. Living Security publishes technical documentation that includes APIs for programmatic access, though detailed API references are gated.
Integrations are central to Torii as it offers a broad catalog of deep, direct integrations spanning identity providers (Okta, Google, Entra), HRMS, finance and expense systems, contract management, and core SaaS apps (Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Workato, and Vanta). Discovery also draws on a browser extension, SSO, and email signals, and Torii provides an open API and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) support, enabling teams to automate governance and move data at scale. For apps without a native connector, custom integrations and the API help fill gaps. The main caveat is that coverage is not exhaustive, and some tools still lack direct integrations, which can require custom work.
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.
Living Security publishes its packaging structure but not its prices. The platform is sold as a required base (the "Living Security Platform") plus one of three Action Packages: Train, Engage, or Adapt. Buyers are directed to "contact us for enterprise pricing." Several capabilities (phishing simulations, Cybersecurity Awareness Month, CyberEscape Online, AI content generation, and professional services) are priced separately as add-ons. There is no free plan or free trial; evaluation runs through a sales-led demo environment.
Torii does not have public pricing. Plans are quote-based and tailored by company size; its site frames offerings around Scale-up and Enterprise segments, and prospective buyers obtain pricing through a personalized demo. There is no publicly advertised free plan or self-service free trial; evaluation runs through sales-led demos and proofs of concept. Third-party review data points to negotiated annual enterprise contracts, reinforcing that cost depends on a sales conversation rather than published rates.
Customers
UpGuard customers include Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read UpGuard’s customer stories to learn more.
Living Security publicly references a roster of large, recognizable enterprise customers across multiple regulated industries. Examples include Verizon, JPMorgan, CVS Health, Lockheed Martin, and Ford. The customer base skews toward Fortune 500 and large enterprises in finance, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing.
Torii publicly cites a roster of mid-market and enterprise customers. Examples include Instacart, Palo Alto Networks, Bumble, Carrier, and Pipedrive (others cited include Payoneer, SimilarWeb, and monday), and published case studies feature Rock Content (which saved over $1M), AppsFlyer (managing 300+ apps), and HiBob (cutting roughly 25% of SaaS spend). The customer base skews toward technology and internet companies, as well as mid-to-large enterprises managing sprawling SaaS estates.
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.
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Living Security vs Torri (Torii) product overview
Learn more about the products and how they compare.
Overview
We assess three user risk solutions — Living Security, Torri (Torii), and UpGuard — to help you make an informed decision before investing in the right solution for your needs.
Living Security Overview
Living Security is an AI-native human risk management (HRM) platform that measures and reduces risk across an organization’s workforce, including employees, contractors, and AI agents. Its Intelligence Engine correlates 300+ behavioral, identity, and threat signals from a customer’s existing security stack into a Human Risk Index (HRI) that sorts individuals into five risk tiers. It backs this with a multi-year behavioral dataset from 100+ enterprises, analyzed by the Cyentia Institute. It pairs that with gamified, AI-personalized training and an embedded assistant, Livvy.
Torii Overview
Torii is a SaaS management and governance platform that helps IT and finance teams take control of SaaS and AI sprawl. It continuously discovers every application in use, from shadow SaaS to AI tools and desktop apps, and maps each to the human and machine identities behind it. That inventory lets teams reclaim unused licenses (Torii cites ~25% cost savings), cut renewal waste, and revoke access at offboarding. Alongside core SaaS management, it adds identity governance and administration (IGA) and an AI dashboard for forecasting AI spend and monitoring keys, tokens, and agents.
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
Living Security: Onboarding centers on a quick-start path that stands up a tenant in minutes, with visual dashboards at the organization, segment, department, and individual level. An embedded AI assistant (Livvy) lowers the learning curve, though most of the effort is upfront: connecting identity, training, phishing, and email security tools so the platform has data to correlate.
Torii: Generally regarded as intuitive, Torii offers clean dashboards and strong day-to-day usability scores. Onboarding centers on connecting integrations to build the app and identity inventory, with G2 data putting typical time-to-implement at around two months. Its no-code automation builder is approachable for common tasks like onboarding and offboarding, though building more complex, branching workflows carries a steeper learning curve.
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
Living Security: Living Security works from the inside out, correlating signals from an organization’s existing security, identity, and training tools into a per-person risk score, then driving targeted training, nudges, and automated controls at the individuals who account for most exposure. Its value depends entirely on the integrations connected to it; a thin toolset limits what it can see, and it doesn’t address vendor risk or external attack surface.
Torii: Built for operational control, Torii discovers the full SaaS, AI, and desktop footprint and turns that into license optimization, renewal management, and no-code lifecycle automation for onboarding and offboarding. Its strength is breadth of discovery paired with automation; its limitation is that it provides no threat detection, SSPM, or attack-surface management, and some integrations require manual work where native connectors don’t exist.
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
Living Security: Day-to-day support runs on an always-on AI chat assistant that escalates to a ticket queue targeting a 48-business-hour response, with a separate critical-support path for urgent issues outside standard hours.
Torii: Support is a repeated strength in reviews: Torii pairs customers with a dedicated Customer Success Manager and customer-experience team, with reported metrics of roughly 90% of requests answered in under two hours and about 80% resolved on first contact. Self-service runs through a help center, a dedicated onboarding portal, and a regular webinar series, though formal support tiers and SLAs aren’t publicly documented.
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
Living Security: Does not maintain a public changelog or version-by-version release notes. Product news surfaces instead through its blog and Newsroom, including milestone announcements like the launch of its AI-native platform, and it publishes no fixed release schedule.
Torii: Torii maintains a public Product Updates feed that ships regular, feature-level updates. Recent additions include automated remediation in Access Reviews, new integrations, and workflow enhancements. Torii also recently added a separate developer changelog tracking API versions (for example, v1.1) and endpoint improvements. Updates are tied to feature launches rather than a fixed release schedule.
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
Living Security: Pricing isn’t published. It’s sold as a required base subscription plus one of three Action Packages (Train, Engage, Adapt), with phishing simulations, AI content generation, and professional services priced as separate add-ons. There’s no free plan or trial; evaluation runs through a sales-led demo. See Living Security’s pricing.
Torii: Pricing isn’t published either; plans are quote-based and tailored by company size, framed around “Scale-up” and “Enterprise” segments, with cost obtained through a personalized demo. There’s no advertised free plan or self-service trial; evaluation runs sales-led, and G2 data points to negotiated annual contracts (roughly a 14% average discount and ~2-month implementation). See Torii’s 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
Living Security: Technical documentation covers APIs for programmatic access to risk data and platform actions, though detailed references are gated behind a customer login. Its Entity Graph unifies identity data pulled from HRIS, SSO, endpoint, and email sources into a single profile per person, and integrations extend to outbound actions like opening ITSM tickets or triggering access-control changes based on a person’s risk score.
Torii: Torii runs an open developer platform (developers.toriihq.com) with public, OpenAPI-documented REST APIs, explicit versioning (v1.0/v1.1), and a developer community offering sample apps and guides for custom integrations and custom actions. Beyond the API, its no-code automation engine and infrastructure-as-code support let teams automate governance and provisioning at scale, and custom integrations cover apps that lack a native connector.
UpGuard: Offers a standard API to pull data from UpGuard’s platform into other enterprise applications.
Third-party integrations
Living Security: Its Technology Alliance Program connects the platform to Microsoft (Azure, Defender, Intune), Okta, SailPoint, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Mimecast, KnowBe4, Netskope, Zscaler, Rapid7, and Workday.
Torii: Torii offers a broad catalog of deep, direct integrations across identity providers (Okta, Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra), HRMS, finance and expense systems, contract management, and core SaaS apps (Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Workato, Vanta, ServiceNow), with custom integrations via its API for apps that lack a native connector.
