SecurityScorecard was established in 2013 by security and risk specialists Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh. The company's patented rating technology is leveraged by a substantial number of organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting, and cyber insurance underwriting. With a mission to make the digital world safer, SecurityScorecard provides solutions for better understanding, enhancing, and conveying security risk. The company's unique offering includes instant cyber risk ratings that correspond with vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses. This allows a comprehensive view of risk and helps organizations enhance their digital security stance externally. Furthermore, the company’s risk ratings are utilized by companies globally, denoting its widespread acceptance.
Do You Manage Peer Insights at SecurityScorecard?
Access Vendor Portal to update and manage your profile.
Self guiding. It requires minimal effort to understand how to get this product up and running, providing near immediate coverage for any risk management team, regardless of how robust their program is.
Ease of use, actionable findings, seamless integration
SecurityScorecard excels in providing various reporting mechanisms (ability to generate reports for sharing and triaging with vendors; internal dashboards for tracking), prompt notification for breach detection (for monitored vendors), and the ease of use for adding/removing vendors, customizing reports, and setting up alert rules.
occasionally we do encounter false positves detected on our network. However, we can submit a request to have them evaluated with our explanation and eventually get them removed.
False positives identified that do not impact services provided by a third party, reporting capabilities have room for improvement,
The pricing is a bit high and the platform seems a little behind in end-to-end vendor risk assessment capabilities. However, it is a great, complementary tool to the vendor risk assessment process.