Release notes
New and improved risk assessments and more
Chris Schubert December 22, 2021
Over 60% of cyber security incidents come from trusted vendors. Secure your data and prevent this from happening to your business with our new and improved risk assessments. You can now send questionnaires, request or use shared questionnaires and add additional evidence from inside a risk assessment. When the assessment is completed, set a reassessment date to make sure that you stay up to date with your vendor’s risk profiles. Check out ‘How to complete a risk assessment’ for assistance in completing a risk assessment.
Control your Log4J critical vulnerability risk by sending your vendors our new Log4J questionnaire. We’ve also added an automated scan and verified vulnerability for Log4j CVE-2021-44228. This uses a basic detection mechanism as part of a GET request to a scanned domain, in order to keep our scanning as non-invasive as possible. It is important to note that the absence of this verified vulnerability does not mean that you or your vendors are 100% safe from this vulnerability, but the presence of the vulnerability means that you are likely exposed. Please see our blog post for more information on CVE-2021-44228 (Log4Shell) and how you can minimize your exposure.
Tailor your workflow notifications to best represent your business, improving your vendors confidence and diligence at opening/fulfilling your requests. By default, notifications and invites to outside parties come from an UpGuard email address. Now customers with co-branding can set up a customized mailing address such as UpGuard@yourbusiness.com or set notifications to come directly from their own email address wherever possible. For help setting this up, check out the knowledge base article ‘Sending outbound emails from a custom address’.
