Name: UpGuard Vendor Risk
Rating: 4.6 (243 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on UpGuard Vendor Risk

Updated 13th October 2025

What is UpGuard Vendor Risk?

UpGuard Vendor Risk is a software designed to help organizations assess, monitor, and manage risk related to their third-party vendors. The software provides tools for evaluating vendor security posture, tracking compliance, and automating risk assessments. Users can leverage questionnaires, automated workflows, and continuous monitoring to identify vulnerabilities and maintain oversight of vendor performance. UpGuard Vendor Risk supports reporting and remediation activities, helping businesses address regulatory requirements and reduce potential risk exposure from external relationships. It enables centralized visibility into the risk status of vendors, aiding organizations in making informed decisions while maintaining consistent security standards across their supply chain.

Overall experience with UpGuard Vendor Risk

Manager, IT Security and Risk Management

250M - 500M USD, Software

FAVORABLE

“Improving security posture”

5.0

Dec 10, 2025

Good product giving up to date security ratings. Other tools like to hold onto bad news for several weeks even after issues have been fixed. Really good support from the team. It's given us motivation to constantly improve our security posture.

IS Security Architect

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education

CRITICAL

“Decent UI and API, scoring, but missing bulk/mass Vendor Reporting”

3.0

Apr 11, 2023

Decent UI, responsive & professional support. Straightforward, basic logic; wished it had better options for mass actions in terms of report generation of Vendors' reports.

About Company

Company Description

UpGuard helps businesses manage cybersecurity risk. UpGuard's integrated risk platform combines third-party security ratings, security assessment questionnaires, and threat intelligence capabilities to give businesses a full and comprehensive view of their risk surface.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2012

Head office location

Mountain View, United States

Number of employees

201 - 500

Website

https://www.upguard.com

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UpGuard Vendor Risk Likes & Dislikes

Ease of calling out poor configuration. Excellent QA tool to audit administrators of certificates and domains ensuring they don't expire or are removed when no longer needed. Fantastic and timely support for removal or addition of domains or for helping to manage false positives.

Transparent about the weights used in scoring model, so even if I disagree w/ the approach, I can still compensate in my understanding.

I like the adaptability of the platform to align the features and capabilities to what my organization needs. I like being able to scale our use case with automation, reducing the amount of time that would be needed to complete and organize a risk assessment.

Some domains are associated with our company which don't appear to be true. Sometimes some evidence is needed, which is not visible to us, for why the domain was attributed to us.

Mass/bulk action not available through the UI or through the api for vendor reporting.

I wish that the platform had more automation associated with it, rather than automation that had to be built in by my team. I would love for the ability to upload evidence from a vendor and have it accurately scan the information and extract responses to incorporate into a risk assessment.

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Recommended Gartner Insights

Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Risk Management Technology Solutions (Transitioning to Third-Party Risk Management Tools for Assurance Leaders)

50M-1B USD

Software

Review Source

Improving security posture

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

<50M USD

IT Services

Platform Offers Adaptable Features and Automation for Streamlined Risk Assessment

4.0

Jan 29, 2026

Overall, my experience with the vendor has been outstanding. The vendor provides opportunities to meet with a representative to discuss interests in enhancing the features and maximizing the capabilities of using the platform.

INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGER

Construction

SOC Reports and Quick Submission Praised, Costly Product

Dec 16, 2025

It is a great product; we've picked vendors entirely on the outcome of this product and recognised both good and bad choices, it has been very valuable.

DIRECTOR, LOGISTICS & DOCUMENTS SERVICES

Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Know Them - Know Yourself

Feb 26, 2026

Upguard has taken favorable steps to accommodate the needs of our K-12 district. They have done some special pricing to ensure we can continue to use the product.

Finance Associate

Banking

Streamlined Vendor Assessments With Easy Interface but Involved Initial Setup Process

Mar 27, 2026

UpGuard has been great for easily completing our vendor assessments.