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.
Unixi is a Universal SSO platform that extends single sign-on and MFA to any browser-based application—including non-SAML and shadow SaaS—without custom integrations or the traditional SSO tax. Using a patented passwordless technology called Key Derived Authentication (KDA), it provides one-button login while eliminating passwords, closing common credential-theft paths for these apps. Beyond SSO, Unixi uncovers unmanaged apps, shared accounts, and weak credentials, enabling enforcement of baseline access governance. Its main limitation is scope: it functions strictly as an identity and access tool, offering no live threat detection, SSPM, vendor risk management, or external 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.
Unixi extends SSO and MFA to any browser-based application, including non-SAML and shadow SaaS, without custom integrations, working alongside an organization's existing IdP to eliminate the vendor SSO tax and provide an immediate cost advantage. Its patented Key Derived Authentication delivers passwordless, phishing-resistant logins by utilizing multi-key, multi-location authentication material that is never stored, effectively neutralizing credential theft and AiTM attacks at the source. Beyond authentication, Unixi discovers unmanaged apps, shared accounts, and weak passwords, while providing access governance controls such as role-based permissions, approved-app enforcement, and audit-ready compliance tracking.
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.
Because Unixi operates as a browser-based Universal SSO via an extension, its protection is naturally confined to browser-accessible apps—leaving desktop applications or users without the extension out of scope. The platform's functional footprint is also intentionally narrow, focusing purely on identity and access governance rather than full-scale SaaS security or management. Additionally, as an emerging vendor, Unixi offers limited independent third-party validation to prove its reliability at scale. Buyers should also note that its passwordless framework depends on a proprietary, patented authentication method (KDA) that requires careful evaluation against existing enterprise identity architectures.
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.
Unixi minimizes friction for both users and administrators. For end users, it provides a seamless, one-button passwordless login that reduces password resets and login fatigue. For IT teams, onboarding is significantly lighter than with legacy SSO. Because Unixi layers onto your existing IdP without requiring custom SAML configurations, administrators can pull unmanaged shadow apps under centralized control via a managed browser extension. Free trials and assessments make it easy to pilot, though its ultimate value depends entirely on the successful deployment of extensions across every user's browser. Furthermore, as an emerging vendor, Unixi's long-term usability at massive enterprise scale lacks extensive independent validation.
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.
Unixi's data is identity and login-centric. Because it sits in the authentication path via the browser, it has first-hand visibility into how users actually log in, surfacing unmanaged and non-SAML apps, shadow SaaS, shared accounts, weak or reused passwords, and places where SSO is bypassed, providing high-fidelity access and identity discovery within its scope. That said, the data is focused on identity and access rather than broader security telemetry (it is not threat-detection or posture data), its visibility is limited to browser-based logins where the extension is deployed, and, with little independent review data available, the accuracy and completeness of discovery are not yet externally validated at scale.
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.
Vendor (third-party) risk management is outside Unixi's scope. It is an identity and access tool, not a TPRM platform, and offers none of the core VRM workflows. The only tangential overlap is that, by discovering the unmanaged and shadow SaaS apps employees use, Unixi gives visibility into which third-party services are present in the environment, but that is access discovery and governance, not vendor risk assessment. Organizations that need vendor due diligence 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.
Unixi shrinks an organization's identity exposure by discovering shadow SaaS, shared accounts, weak passwords, and SSO bypasses. It then closes these security gaps by bringing unmanaged apps under MFA, eliminating passwords for those apps, and enforcing strict approved-app policies. While this directly neutralizes the credential risks behind most breaches, it remains a purely identity-centric defense. Unixi does not scan external, internet-facing assets such as domains, IPs, or certificates, so teams that require conventional attack surface management (ASM) will still need 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.
There is limited public information on Unixi's support model, and because the product has little independent review presence, no third-party data to gauge responsiveness. As a smaller, emerging vendor, Unixi engages prospects and customers through demos, a free assessment, and direct contact, typically delivering hands-on, high-touch support at this stage of a company's growth. However, Unixi does not publicly document formal support tiers, SLAs, or a self-service help center or knowledge base, so buyers should confirm support scope and response commitments during evaluation.
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.
Unixi focuses its automation strictly on access governance and identity offboarding rather than broad workflow orchestration. Administrators can leverage role-based permissions and an approved-app policy to enforce compliance, while its login restriction feature automatically blocks unsanctioned shadow IT by forcing all traffic through its universal SSO. For offboarding, Unixi streamlines user lifecycle management by centrally revoking access to both managed and unmanaged apps when an employee leaves. However, because Unixi lacks a general-purpose or no-code workflow engine, it cannot replace the comprehensive application lifecycle automation found in dedicated SaaS management platforms.
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.
While Unixi lacks native AI or machine learning capabilities, it actively delivers shadow AI governance to ensure that employee interactions with the technology are secure. The platform's core framework relies on a patented cryptographic authentication method (Key-Derived Authentication) rather than on AI copilots or automated detection models. However, by maintaining deep visibility into the login path, it successfully uncovers hidden AI tools, identifies personal AI accounts, and blocks high-risk integrations. Ultimately, Unixi governs enterprise AI use, even though the underlying defense engine is not AI-powered.
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.
Unixi inverts the traditional identity model by extending SSO and automated lifecycle provisioning to any browser-based application without requiring individual, app-by-app configurations. Built to complement rather than replace your legacy architecture, it layers seamlessly onto existing identity providers like Okta, Ping, and Microsoft Entra. The primary trade-off is the platform's closed ecosystem: Unixi lacks a broad third-party marketplace, and public documentation for open APIs or SIEM/SOAR tools is limited. Teams reliant on extensive downstream tooling or programmatic access will want to verify these capabilities directly.
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.
Unixi does not publish public pricing. There is no pricing page, tier breakdown, or per-user rate on its site. Buyers obtain pricing through a demo or by contacting the vendor, and licensing terms are not publicly documented. On the positive side, Unixi lowers the barrier to evaluation by offering a free trial and a free assessment, so teams can try it without an upfront commitment. Overall, packaging and cost are opaque and require a sales conversation, though the free trial and assessment offset this somewhat.
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.
Unixi publicly displays a Trusted by list of customers and features testimonials from security leaders. Named logos include Intuit, Paramount, Cymulate, WELL Health, LifeLabs, and Hippo (others shown include NAF, knix, Luno, and boAt). The roster spans technology, media, insurance, healthcare, and financial services, and includes some recognizable enterprise names. However, as an emerging vendor, the publicly named customer base is still relatively small and not independently corroborated.
G2 rating Accurate as of March 2025
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Living Security vs Unixi product overview
Learn more about the products and how they compare.
Overview
We assess three user risk solutions — Living Security, Unixi, 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.
Unixi Overview
Unixi is a Universal SSO platform that extends single sign-on and MFA to any browser-based application, including non-SAML and shadow SaaS, without custom integrations or the SSO tax vendors typically charge. Its patented passwordless technology, Key Derived Authentication (KDA), provides one-button login while eliminating passwords, closing off a common credential-theft path. Beyond authentication, Unixi surfaces unmanaged apps, shared accounts, and weak credentials to give teams a baseline for access governance. It operates strictly as an identity and access tool, with no live threat detection, SSPM, vendor risk management, or external attack surface management of its own.
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.
Unixi: For end users, Unixi’s one-button passwordless login cuts down on password resets and login fatigue; for IT teams, onboarding is lighter than legacy SSO since it layers onto an existing IdP without custom SAML configuration. A free trial and assessment make it easy to pilot, though value depends on deploying the browser extension across every user, and long-term usability at large enterprise scale has little independent validation yet.
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.
Unixi: Narrower in scope, Unixi is an identity-first tool: it extends SSO and MFA to browser-based apps that don’t natively support SAML, using passwordless authentication to close a specific credential-theft gap, without the custom integration work SSO vendors usually require. The trade-off is scope: coverage stops at browser-based, extension-covered apps, and as a newer vendor it has little independent review data to confirm reliability at scale.
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.
Unixi: Unixi engages prospects through demos, a free assessment, and direct contact, which tends to mean hands-on support given the company’s size and stage. There’s little independent review data to gauge responsiveness, and no publicly documented support tiers, SLAs, or self-service help center.
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.
Unixi: No changelog or release notes are published. Its blog covers identity-security topics and thought leadership rather than product updates, consistent with an early-stage vendor that hasn’t yet formalized a public release cadence.
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.
Unixi: Pricing isn’t published: no pricing page, tiers, or per-user rate appear on the site, and licensing terms are worked out through a demo or direct contact with the vendor. A free trial and a free assessment lower the barrier to evaluation, letting teams try it before any commitment. See Unixi’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.
Unixi: Unixi extends SSO and automated lifecycle provisioning to any browser-based app without app-by-app configuration, layering onto existing identity providers like Okta, Ping, and Microsoft Entra. Public documentation for open APIs or SIEM/SOAR integration is limited, and there’s no broad third-party marketplace.
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.
Unixi: Unixi connects to existing identity providers, including Okta, Ping, and Microsoft Entra, rather than offering a broad third-party integration catalog.
