UpGuard is trusted by hundreds of companies worldwide
Trusted by hundreds of companies worldwide
Capabilities
Provides security certification and framework compliance services along with broad risk visibility. Does not provide security ratings, data leak detection, continuous monitoring, or external scanning.
2,000,000+ organizations scanned daily. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in just 24 hours.
Helps organizations automate their third-party risk assessment and vendor compliance due diligence processes.
170,000 supported organizations.
Provides security ratings that aggregate different risks into a single score, allowing for the comparison of different third-party vendors and service providers. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in 10 days.
Usability and the learning curve
Simple dashboard for viewing compliance progress with audit standards and other key risks.
High-level summation of risk with the ability to drill down into precise technical details.
A fully cloud-based service with minimal installation criteria required. The Panorays platform is an easy-to-use navigation interface and reporting functionality.
Provides views of identified vendor risks enabling detailed reporting of vendors.
Simple interface for quick grade reports and charts.
Community support
Offers a Vanta Academy for customers, website blog, webinar series, eBooks, and help education resources.
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 our breach research blog has uncovered and secured some of the largest data breaches.
Panorays engages their user community with regular blog posts on topics covering relevant security incidents, new feature updates, and industry developments. Panorays also offers live and recorded webinars to help viewers align their programs to best security practices.
Bitsight maintains regular blog posts and webinars covering security incidents, feature updates, and industry developments.
SecurityScoreCard offers a user Academy for customer users along with a regularly updated company blog, webinar series, and resource center.
Release rate
Vanta does not disclose product release cycles, but does provide monthly product updates on their website.
UpGuard has adopted DevOps principles internally to develop, test, and release software continuously, ensuring fast, consistent, and safe releases.
Panorays’ support pages do not currently appear to document release notes about changes to the platform’s functionalities.
Bitsight does not publicly disclose product release cycle periods but does provide overviews of significant platform updates via their corporate blog.
Makes releases as needed throughout the year, consistently enabling customer users to access information logs of beneficial changes.
Pricing and support
Vanta pricing is not publicly available but have many lower-level offerings as part of various packages.
UpGuard has a transparent pricing model which you can view here. UpGuard pricing starts at $5,999/year and scales with your company.
Public-facing pricing is not available. Prospective customers must engage with a Panorays representative to receive pricing quotes for different subscription tiers, with higher tiers allowing for a greater number of monitored vendors and customer users.
Public pricing information is not available. Pricing is reported to start at $20,000 plus $2,000-$2,500 per vendor per year.
Public pricing information is not available. Reports say pricing starts at $16,500 for self-assessment plus five vendors, and additional vendors cost $1,500-$2,000 per vendor per year.
API and extensibility
Vanta uses Connectors API to allow developers to send information to Vanta or pull data from third-party services.
UpGuard offers a standard API to pull data into other enterprise applications.
Bitsight offers the ability for customers to extend security ratings through a Developer API.
Bitsight offers the ability for customers to extend security ratings through a Developer API.
SecurityScoreCard offers API connections for users seeking greater security ratings extensibility.
Third-party integrations
Offers 100+ third-party integrations, but not all are mapped to specific use cases.
Connect UpGuard with over 4,000+ apps using our Zapier integration.
Offers out-of-the-box integrations with a limited number of third-party platforms such as ServiceNow and RSA Archer. However, most alerting connections to third-party platforms will require development support for custom integrations available via the standard webhook connector available in the platform.
Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Offers integrations with several third party platforms, such as RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and more.
Customers
Notable customers include: Quora, Autodesk, Gusto, and Chili Piper.
The New York Stock Exchange (ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read our customer stories.
Features most of their customers as belonging in the mid-market segment, such as Mixpanel, WalkMe, and Zerto.
Major customers include Optus / Singtel, The University of North Florida, Snam, and PROSA.
Major customers include Symantec, Pepsico, Two Sigma, and Stony Brook University.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.6, based on 859 reviews.
4.5, based on 164 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
5, based on 2 reviews.
4.6, based on 35 reviews.
4.3, based on 68 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Does not provide continuous monitoring or scanning capabilities for external and internal security postures, and no data leak detection.
As UpGuard checks for misconfigurations across your Internet footprint, many important breach vectors are covered, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data leaks are automatically surfaced by the platform for your team to assess and close before they become breaches.
Reviews many important breach vectors to assess the supply chain attack surface, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility, man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. However, threat and risk intelligence enabling greater visibility into supply chain data leakages, compromised corporate identities, and brand fraud is not currently supported.
The IP reputation methodology helps catch active malware installations, but that’s only one possible way a data breach can occur.
SecurityScorecard utilizes active and passive data collection methods that are publicly available. The data collected provides indicators of risk relating to open ports, DNS, HSTS, SSL (and more) that are processed via their proprietary algorithm to produce individual security ratings.
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Capabilities
Provides security certification and framework compliance services along with broad risk visibility. Does not provide security ratings, data leak detection, continuous monitoring, or external scanning.
Usability and the learning curve
Simple dashboard for viewing compliance progress with audit standards and other key risks.
Community support
Offers a Vanta Academy for customers, website blog, webinar series, eBooks, and help education resources.
Release rate
Vanta does not disclose product release cycles, but does provide monthly product updates on their website.
Pricing and support
Vanta pricing is not publicly available but have many lower-level offerings as part of various packages.
API and extensibility
Vanta uses Connectors API to allow developers to send information to Vanta or pull data from third-party services.
Third-party integrations
Offers 100+ third-party integrations, but not all are mapped to specific use cases.
Customers
Notable customers include: Quora, Autodesk, Gusto, and Chili Piper.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.6, based on 859 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Does not provide continuous monitoring or scanning capabilities for external and internal security postures, and no data leak detection.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Capabilities
2,000,000+ organizations scanned daily. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in just 24 hours.
Usability and the learning curve
High-level summation of risk with the ability to drill down into precise technical details.
Community support
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 our breach research blog has uncovered and secured some of the largest data breaches.
Release rate
UpGuard has adopted DevOps principles internally to develop, test, and release software continuously, ensuring fast, consistent, and safe releases.
Pricing and support
UpGuard has a transparent pricing model which you can view here. UpGuard pricing starts at $5,999/year and scales with your company.
API and extensibility
UpGuard offers a standard API to pull data into other enterprise applications.
Third-party integrations
Connect UpGuard with over 4,000+ apps using our Zapier integration.
Customers
The New York Stock Exchange (ICE), Morningstar, TDK, PagerDuty, Hopin, and IAG. Read our customer stories.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.5, based on 164 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
Predictive capabilities
As UpGuard checks for misconfigurations across your Internet footprint, many important breach vectors are covered, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility (like WannaCry), man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. Data leaks are automatically surfaced by the platform for your team to assess and close before they become breaches.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Capabilities
Helps organizations automate their third-party risk assessment and vendor compliance due diligence processes.
Usability and the learning curve
A fully cloud-based service with minimal installation criteria required. The Panorays platform is an easy-to-use navigation interface and reporting functionality.
Community support
Panorays engages their user community with regular blog posts on topics covering relevant security incidents, new feature updates, and industry developments. Panorays also offers live and recorded webinars to help viewers align their programs to best security practices.
Release rate
Panorays’ support pages do not currently appear to document release notes about changes to the platform’s functionalities.
Pricing and support
Public-facing pricing is not available. Prospective customers must engage with a Panorays representative to receive pricing quotes for different subscription tiers, with higher tiers allowing for a greater number of monitored vendors and customer users.
API and extensibility
Offers a JSON-based REST API, that customers can use to build the connections needed to transmit Panorays elements into third-party applications.
Third-party integrations
Offers out-of-the-box integrations with a limited number of third-party platforms such as ServiceNow and RSA Archer. However, most alerting connections to third-party platforms will require development support for custom integrations available via the standard webhook connector available in the platform.
Customers
Features most of their customers as belonging in the mid-market segment, such as Mixpanel, WalkMe, and Zerto.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
5, based on 2 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
Reviews many important breach vectors to assess the supply chain attack surface, including phishing, ransomware susceptibility, man-in-the-middle attacks, DNSSEC, vulnerabilities, email spoofing, domain hijacking, and DNS issues. However, threat and risk intelligence enabling greater visibility into supply chain data leakages, compromised corporate identities, and brand fraud is not currently supported.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Capabilities
170,000 supported organizations.
Usability and the learning curve
Provides views of identified vendor risks enabling detailed reporting of vendors.
Community support
Bitsight maintains regular blog posts and webinars covering security incidents, feature updates, and industry developments.
Release rate
Bitsight does not publicly disclose product release cycle periods but does provide overviews of significant platform updates via their corporate blog.
Pricing and support
Public pricing information is not available. Pricing is reported to start at $20,000 plus $2,000-$2,500 per vendor per year.
API and extensibility
Bitsight offers the ability for customers to extend security ratings through a Developer API.
Third-party integrations
Offers integrations with RSA Archer GRC, CyberGRX, OneTrust Vendorpedia, ProcessUnity, MetricStream, and more.
Customers
Major customers include Optus / Singtel, The University of North Florida, Snam, and PROSA.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.6, based on 35 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
The IP reputation methodology helps catch active malware installations, but that’s only one possible way a data breach can occur.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Capabilities
Provides security ratings that aggregate different risks into a single score, allowing for the comparison of different third-party vendors and service providers. Non-intrusive scans of IPv4 web space completed in 10 days.
Usability and the learning curve
Simple interface for quick grade reports and charts.
Community support
SecurityScoreCard offers a user Academy for customer users along with a regularly updated company blog, webinar series, and resource center.
Release rate
Makes releases as needed throughout the year, consistently enabling customer users to access information logs of beneficial changes.
Pricing and support
Public pricing information is not available. Reports say pricing starts at $16,500 for self-assessment plus five vendors, and additional vendors cost $1,500-$2,000 per vendor per year.
API and extensibility
SecurityScoreCard offers API connections for users seeking greater security ratings extensibility.
Third-party integrations
Offers integrations with several third party platforms, such as RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and more.
Customers
Major customers include Symantec, Pepsico, Two Sigma, and Stony Brook University.
G2 rating
Accurate as of January 2024
4.3, based on 68 reviews.
Predictive capabilities
SecurityScorecard utilizes active and passive data collection methods that are publicly available. The data collected provides indicators of risk relating to open ports, DNS, HSTS, SSL (and more) that are processed via their proprietary algorithm to produce individual security ratings.
Security rating
950
/ 950
Vanta Pricing
Vanta pricing has not been released publicly. Users note that Vanta pricing models have been quickly pricing them out of the competition.
Vanta Features
Vanta’s main offerings are:
- Helping businesses establish and demonstrate compliance with security regulations and frameworks, such as SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, and USDP
- Vendor risk management using acquired third-party service, TrustPage, to ensure third parties are also meeting compliance requirements
- Automated questionnaire, documentation, and security review management
- Vanta Trust Reports demonstrating current security postures and security compliance progress to prospective and existing customers and vendors
Vanta Use Cases
Vanta is a U.S. startup based in San Francisco, CA, offering security monitoring, cybersecurity assessment, and certification solutions services for businesses. They help organizations achieve compliance with auditing standards and security frameworks through automated processes and some risk visibility.
Vanta's capabilities are heavily focused on providing security certification and framework compliance services, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or HIPAA. They also offer simple risk management services but do not incorporate data leaks, security ratings, or risk scoring for external or internal attack surfaces into their assessment and security monitoring.
Vanta Demo / Trial
Vanta offers a customized demo to allow potential customers to get full visibility into the Vanta platform.
Vanta API
Vanta uses Connectors API to pull security information and allow for compliance automation.
Gartner Peer Insights
Overall ratings for the IT VRM Solutions market. Accurate as of January 2024
UpGuard
4.4, based on 160 reviews. Named a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for IT VRM Solutions
Vanta
4, based on 3 reviews.
G2
Accurate as of January 2024
UpGuard
4.5, based on 164 reviews. Named a G2 Market Leader for Third Party & Supplier Risk Management Software.
Vanta
4.6, based on 859 reviews.
Glassdoor
Accurate as of January 2024
UpGuard
4.6
Vanta
4.2
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