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Modernizing Vendor Risk for the AI Era

See how Riverside County transformed vendor risk from a manual, time-consuming process into a streamlined, data-driven operation that speeds decision-making, reduces risk, and enables innovation. Also hear about their approach to managing emerging AI risks, with practical, actionable lessons other security teams can apply. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?

Flying blind on workforce security? Let User Risk be your co-pilot.

What we heard loud and clear from security teams is that they’re flying blind when it comes to securing their workforce. In fact, companies often have more SaaS applications than they do employees. They just don’t realize it. Secondly, there’s a tremendously long tail of SaaS applications only being used by one person in the organization. Imagine trying to imagine that manually. User Risk, solves this visibility gap by giving organizations visibility into your human risk, enabling safe AI adoption, and driving a security-first culture.

Shadow SaaS IS lurking in your organization. Here's what you need to know.

Is shadow SaaS lurking in your organization? The answer is "yes". Now, what do you do about it? User Risk gives security teams complete visibility into their human risk, enabling safe AI adoption, and driving a security-first culture. Discover more of what User Risk can do for you.

Solving Human Risk: Close the Visibility Gap

The modern cybersecurity landscape is being redefined by the human element. With every individual user accessing your network, tools, and sensitive data, managing your human attack surface is growing more critical than ever. Yet, as user autonomy increases and AI erupts, this task has become increasingly difficult, if not impossible, with yesterday's tools.

Attack Surface Discovery: A Quick Overview

Hybrid clouds, rapid development, and Shadow IT have expanded the modern attack surface, making complete visibility both crucial and more difficult than ever. Attack surface discovery offers a means of addressing these visibility gaps by continuously mapping all digital assets — internal, external, and hidden. This guide covers the fundamentals, best practices, and top tools for effectively discovering the attack surface.

Trust Exchange Paid: Scaling Security Communication

Today, Trust Exchange stands tall as a platform used by thousands of customers to communicate their security posture. Now we are introducing the new Trust Exchange Paid tier. This tier is designed to help you eliminate bottlenecks, accelerate deal cycles, and maintain top-tier security communication. For high-growth organizations, scaling communication means that security requests escalate rapidly. With UpGuard’s mission to drive proactive cybersecurity protocols, this is our next step.

Supply Chain Cybersecurity Strategies for Modern Business

The widening attack surface signals a critical risk, and your supply chain is the prime target. Attackers exploit vulnerabilities that were inserted long before the system was onboarded. This enables them to infiltrate data or disrupt systems at any stage, making supply chain attacks a direct and growing risk. A third-party breach compromises your vendor, but a supply chain attack targets you, which is why organizations need to make supply chain cybersecurity a business priority.

Risk Automations: The Shift From Catch-Up to Command

What if your security operations team could reduce the time from risk discovery to resolution, from hours to seconds? 64% of analysts spend more than half of their time on manual tasks. It’s a sobering reality, considering how accelerated detection has become, and the contrast couldn’t be sharper. There are tools that detect zero-day vulnerabilities, map complex attacks, and identify vendor risk exposures, but remediation is still stuck in the age of manual mitigation.

Lookalike Domain Attacks Explained

Your potential customers could be interacting with a malicious website that resembles your company's website. This dangerous cyber risk, known as a lookalike domain, is on the rise, with 80% of registered web domains in 2024 resembling 2000 global brands. This article explains what lookalike domains are, their impact on your brand, and why these attacks are increasing, providing real-time strategies to protect your business from domain spoofing.

The Shadow AI Disconnect CISOs Need to Know

Our new State of Shadow AI Report has just uncovered a critical disconnect that all security leaders need to be aware of. We all know shadow AI is exploding, and that blocking is the most logical response. How else are you going to regain control? But our data shows this is backfiring: This is where blocking can get dangerous. It doesn't stop AI; it just limits your visibility. Download the full (ungated) shadow AI report to see all the data.

Uncovering the Shadow AI Paradox

Does the world really need another study of shadow AI? That was my first thought going into this project. Reading dozens of previous reports did not change that impression: there's a lot of shadow AI out there, and a lot of reports saying so. But the more I read, the more apparent it became that something important was missing. This endless supply was not meeting what was actually in demand.

It's time to rethink shadow AI.

It's time to rethink shadow AI. We've been told it's a fringe activity. A risk from rogue employees. Our new research proves that wrong. This is, ironically, no longer a "shadow" problem. It's a universal workflow hiding in plain sight. The question is no longer "how do we stop it?" It's "how do we manage it?" Our new report lands next week with the date you need to start answering that important question.

A CISO's Guide to Defending Against Social Media Impersonation

The platforms your customers trust to connect with your brand are now being weaponized to destroy its reputation. AI is equipping cybercriminals with industrial-scale operations that can replicate your brand presence across all major social platforms in just minutes. This guide provides a CISO's framework for moving from reactive brand monitoring to proactive threat disruption, detailing a four-pillar plan to neutralize these threats before they impact your business.