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Best Digital Risk Protection (DRP) Software, Platforms, and Solutions

Aug 7, 2026 By Lance Turner In UpGuard
Most teams shopping for digital risk protection solutions already run three tools at once: one for brand monitoring, one for dark web monitoring, and another for social media defense. The signals don't line up, the alerts pile up, and there’s no single view to show what's exposed. Attackers keep wearing a trusted brand's face, which is why fragmentation matters.
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The Vendor Assurance Confidence Gap: Why It's Widest With Your Most Critical Vendors

Aug 4, 2026 By Cassy van Eeden In UpGuard
Vendor assurance efforts are increasing, but risk leaders don’t trust the results of that effort. In KPMG’s Global Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Survey, only 15% of risk leaders said they have high confidence in the data that underpins their TPRM program. Only 17% rate their data quality as excellent. Security teams are running more assessments and sending more questionnaires than ever, but fewer than one in five leaders trust what any of that produces.
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How to have an epic lunch break (UpGuard edition)

Jul 30, 2026 By UpGuard In UpGuard
Chris O'Brien, Head of Sales Engineering at UpGuard, spent his lunch break at his local fair — carnival games, rides, and all. When we say work-life balance matters to us, we mean it. Sometimes that looks like stepping away from back-to-back meetings to grab a corn dog and a life-size plushie. UpGuard helps organizations manage third-party risk and monitor their attack surface — but great security work starts with a team that's supported enough to log off, recharge, and show up sharp.
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No Hackers Required: 10 Shadow AI Leaks Hiding in Plain Sight

Jul 29, 2026 By Revashni Moodley In UpGuard
“The call is coming from inside the house.” It’s one of horror’s oldest lines, and you already know how the scene goes. The team scrambles, rechecks every firewall, audits every login, hunting for an intruder. Then the trace comes back, and there isn’t one because there is no malware or forced entry. Just an employee, at their own desk, with their own login, who pasted a confidential spreadsheet into an unapproved AI tool to save 10 minutes before a deadline.
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Oracle Just Shipped 1,449 Security Patches in One Quarter. We Checked How Much of It Is Actually New.

Jul 22, 2026 By Greg Pollock In UpGuard
Oracle's July 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) is nearly three times larger than any release in the company's history. To understand it, we parsed all 23 of Oracle's quarterly advisories going back to 2021, matched them against the official CVE record, and compared Oracle against eight other major vendors. We set out to answer three questions: How much of this is genuinely new? Does it really reflect AI-accelerated patching? And how unusual is it?
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Best Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) Platforms

Jul 20, 2026 By Shane Moosa In UpGuard
The modern security landscape is an unfair fight. The perimeter is gone—replaced by a borderless terrain where a team of one to 10 is expected to defend the same footprint as a 50-person security operations center (SOC). Attack surface. Vendor ecosystem. Workforce identity. Even fully-staffed teams struggle to cover them all. For a lean team, that coverage fractures almost instantly.
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Best Dark Web Monitoring Tools, Software, and Services in 2026

Jul 16, 2026 By Shane Moosa In UpGuard
Confidential and sensitive data moves across the dark web every second of every day, and that stolen data has become a reliable fuel source for breaches. In 2025, reports from Cybernews revealed that researchers had uncovered roughly 16 billion exposed credentials and that artificial intelligence (AI) now accelerates what attackers can do with that data once they have it.
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Data leakage risks with DBHub MCP servers

Jul 13, 2026 By Greg Pollock In UpGuard
Organizations keep their databases behind firewalls for a reason: the data inside is the data they can least afford to lose. A new class of AI middleware–Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers–exists specifically to reach into those protected systems on an AI model's behalf. One of them, DBHub, connects directly to SQL databases.
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Best Tools for Securing MCP and LLM Integrations

Jul 10, 2026 By Lance Turner In UpGuard
Shadow IT used to mean employees spinning up unsanctioned software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps that stored company data without approval. Today, shadow MCP and unsanctioned LLM integrations represent the next evolution, and they're more dangerous. Model context protocol (MCP) servers don't merely store data; they act on it, executing code, calling APIs, and accessing internal tools on behalf of AI agents that developers connect with a config file.
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Higher Education TPRM in 2026: New Research Maps the Vendor Visibility Gap

Jul 3, 2026 By Cassy van Eeden In UpGuard
Higher education institutions are the most targeted sector for cyberattacks. Yet the teams responsible for managing that risk often face a structural disadvantage: they’re accountable for a vendor ecosystem they can’t fully see. Academic autonomy and the scale of university operations mean that vendors enter the institution through departments, research groups, and administrative teams before InfoSec has full visibility. This challenge is built into how higher education operates.
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