Release notes # Introducing AI-Powered Security Profile and Instant Risk Assessments Toby Roger February 26, 2025 Supercharge your vendor assessments in UpGuard Vendor Risk with AI-powered Security Profiles and Instant Risk Assessments—faster, smarter, and more efficient than ever. Here’s how these features take your vendor risk assessments to the next level: * **AI-powered analysis:** Automatically uncover security control alignment, risks, and compliance gaps—insights that once required manual effort, now fully automated with AI. * **Complete security profile visibility:** Gain instant clarity on a vendor’s compliance, risk exposure, and security posture with the new security profile—visibility that was previously difficult to achieve, now delivered in one streamlined profile. * **Proactive vendor engagement:** Easily request supplementary evidence from vendors to determine security posture and compliance gaps—removing guesswork and ensuring more comprehensive assessments. * **Smarter, faster reporting:** AI Assess converts all evidence and findings into structured, insightful risk narratives—seamlessly transforming scattered information into clear, actionable intelligence. * **Comprehensive risk assessment:** Generate and publish a point-in-time risk assessment report with AI Assess’s contextual commentary in mere minutes—providing a level of depth and clarity that once took hours to achieve. To learn more see [How to assess your vendors using AI-powered Security Profile and Instant Risk Assessments](https://help.upguard.com/en/how-to-assess-your-vendors-using-ai-powered-security-profile-and-instant-risk-assessments). These features have been released as beta with the objective of gathering feedback to drive ongoing improvements. We’re committed to refining their usability and value, and your input will help shape their future direction. Please share your feedback with your UpGuard Customer Success Manager. ### Other improvements * We’ve added [new badges to Trust Pages](https://help.upguard.com/en/articles/4148498-how-to-publish-your-trust-page), to include HITRUST r2, NIST CSF v1.1 and v2.0, and PIPEDA in the set of badges you can add to your page. * We’ve made performance enhancements to the questionnaire viewer and questionnaire builder. * This release includes a number of bug fixes. [View all release notes](/releases) ## UpGuard Release Notes Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard. ### PHP2Shell detection now live in UpGuard Mark Barber October 21, 2026 [Read more](/releases/php2shell-detection-now-live-in-upguard) ### Close related exposed credential threats in one step Mark Barber October 20, 2026 [Read more](/releases/close-related-exposed-credential-threats-in-one-step) ### Security Profile citations now include source control references Mark Barber October 6, 2026 [Read more](/releases/security-profile-citations-now-include-source-control-references) ### Threat Posture: an executive view of external threat activity Mark Barber September 22, 2026 [Read more](/releases/threat-posture-an-executive-view-of-external-threat-activity) ### Brand impersonation detection across mobile app stores Mark Barber September 9, 2026 [Read more](/releases/brand-impersonation-detection-across-mobile-app-stores) ### Clearer citations and timeline for Security Profile checks Mark Barber August 26, 2026 [Read more](/releases/clearer-citations-and-timeline-for-security-profile-checks) ### Subprocessors in Trust Center Mark Barber August 12, 2026 [Read more](/releases/subprocessors-in-trust-center) ### Cloud and core infrastructure frameworks in Security Profile Mark Barber July 29, 2026 [Read more](/releases/cloud-and-core-infrastructure-frameworks-in-security-profile) [View all release notes](/releases) ### See UpGuard In Action Book a free, personalized onboarding call with one of our cybersecurity experts. [Free trial](https://www.upguard.com/demo) [Get a demo](https://www.upguard.com/contact-sales) Free instant security score ## How secure is your organization? Request a free cybersecurity report to discover key risks on your website, email, network, and brand. * Instant insights you can act on immediately * Hundreds of risk factors including email security, SSL, DNS health, open ports and common vulnerabilities [Free score](https://www.upguard.com/instant-security-score?)