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The Best IT and Cyber Risk Management Software

Sep 3, 2026 By Cassy van Eeden In UpGuard
When you search for IT risk management software, the results rarely agree on what the category is. Product pages pitch enterprise governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) suites. Tool roundups mix project trackers with cyber platforms, and review aggregators combine tools that solve different problems. If you're a security analyst or CISO trying to shortlist platforms, that ambiguity costs you weeks and often ends in a proof of concept with the wrong vendor.
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Cybersecurity Leaders React to OpenAI's Hugging Face Breach UpGuard

Sep 2, 2026 By UpGuard In UpGuard
In July 2026, OpenAI's own AI agents escaped their sandbox and reached Hugging Face's production systems during an internal cybersecurity evaluation. In its latest report, OpenAI called the incident "a warning shot for us and for the world." We asked cybersecurity leaders for their reactions to the breach and what it signals for every team racing to deploy AI. One detail stands out. Hugging Face's own systems detected the attack and traced its full shape, but the alert never escalated high enough for a human to act on it.
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Introducing Subprocessor listing in Trust Center profiles

Sep 2, 2026 By Edward Kost In UpGuard
At UpGuard, we believe your Trust Center should be the single place your prospects and customers go to get their trust questions answered. Today, we're excited to announce subprocessor listing in the Trust Center. This capability lets you publish your subprocessors directly where buyers already look for trust signals. You can also keep that list up to date and enable customers to subscribe to updates.
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How to Choose Trust Center Software

Sep 1, 2026 By Edward Kost In UpGuard
Trust center software is what helps you publish a branded, access-controlled security page so buyers can self-serve certifications, policies, and answers to previously completed questionnaires. The tool helps vendors proactively share their security posture with potential customers and efficiently address common security concerns that block sales. Don't confuse this with Microsoft Office Trust Center. That's an entirely different tool that governs macros and active content in Excel and Word.
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Biggest Data Breaches in Telecommunications (Updated September 2026)

Sep 1, 2026 By Lance Turner In UpGuard
Telecommunications providers sit at the center of modern life, carrying the calls, messages, locations, account credentials, and identity data that connect billions of people and businesses. Which makes them uniquely valuable targets: criminals want subscriber records they can monetize, while nation-state actors want access to the networks themselves. The biggest telecom data breaches show how quickly weak security measures can escalate from a customer privacy incident into a national security event.
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Human Risk Management Platforms: How to Choose the Right Software

Aug 28, 2026 By Shane Moosa In UpGuard
Security leaders can no longer treat workforce cyber risk as a quarterly phishing campaign. Shadow AI, sprawling SaaS adoption, generative AI-assisted social engineering, and siloed alerts leave many teams unable to answer a basic board question: which users and apps matter most this week? Answering that question is the job of the human risk management (HRM) software category, which is young and crowded.
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Jira + UpGuard: Automating Risk Management Together

Aug 27, 2026 By Revashni Moodley In UpGuard
If your security team runs on Jira, sprints and backlog included, UpGuard plugs straight into it: vendor findings, breach alerts, and user risk signals can all surface as issues your team is already triaging. With this integration, you can: Set the trigger once: a new risk detected for a monitored vendor, a risk score dropping below a threshold you’ve set, a credential breach turning up on a watched domain, or a questionnaire response coming in.
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ServiceNow + UpGuard: Automating Risk Management Together

Aug 27, 2026 By Revashni Moodley In UpGuard
UpGuard connects to ServiceNow across the whole platform. Vendor risk findings, breach alerts, and user risk signals all land in the same ticket queue your team already works from, not a separate, siloed risk dashboard. With this integration, you can: Risk Automations makes this possible. You define the events that matter: a monitored vendor picks up a new risk, a risk score drops below a threshold you set, a credential breach turns up on a watched domain, or a questionnaire response comes in.
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AI Assurance: The Third Head of Your AI Governance Watchdog

Aug 26, 2026 By Shane Moosa In UpGuard
In July 2026, two AI stories broke that appeared unrelated on the surface. But were they really? The first was an AI product's shared conversation links, meant for specific people, turning up in Google searches, some holding sensitive personal and company data. The second was a frontier AI lab's own model escaping a security sandbox during an internal evaluation and spending four and a half days inside three companies' systems. One involved ordinary users making a common mistake.
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Left Unsupervised: 10 Times Access Outlived Its Authorization

Aug 25, 2026 By Revashni Moodley In UpGuard
September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month, and most of the advice out there is about spotting a person. The insider here is rarely a person. It’s a credential nobody rotated, or an agent nobody kept watching. Each was access granted on purpose, then left unmonitored. The only question that matters afterward is whether anyone would have known.
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