The Competition vs. SecurityScorecard
Trying to choose between companies like BitSight, UpGuard, RiskRecon, and SecurityScorecard? The best way to be sure is to create a free account. Yes, free. Here is a little information to get you started:
- Gain a holistic view of your cybersecurity posture and your vendors.
- Integrate ratings into your workflows with the largest Marketplace of apps and integrations.
- Collaborate seamlessly with your vendors to improve your security posture together.
- Join 98% of the Fortune 500 who trust SecurityScorecard.
 | BitSight | RiskRecon | UpGuard | CyberGRX | Black Kite | Panorays | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of companies scored | 12,000,000+ | 540,000+ | 46,000+ | 2,000,000+ | 100,000+ | Not reported | 100,000+ |
| Risk Mitigation Services | |||||||
| Full range offering of TPRM services | |||||||
| Award-winning Customer Success Manager for every customer | |||||||
| Data Forensics, Investigation, and Response | |||||||
| Intelligence as a Service | |||||||
| Automatic Vendor Detection (AVD) | |||||||
| 3rd party monitoring | |||||||
| 4th party monitoring | |||||||
| Automatic detection | |||||||
| Data collection, attribution, fast scoring | |||||||
| Time to produce a rating | Minutes | Months | Days | Minutes | Near real-time | Minutes | Within hours |
| Monthly scoring updates | |||||||
| Machine learning-driven algorithm | |||||||
| Predictive of breach likelihood | |||||||
| Ability to interact and refine digital footprint | |||||||
| Data transparency and easy remediation | |||||||
| Public Trust Portal with real-time platform information | |||||||
| In-platform resolution process | |||||||
| Fast resolution turnaround | |||||||
| Proprietary in-house data collection | |||||||
| Risk contextualization | |||||||
| Easy to understand A to F scoring | |||||||
| Historical audit log | |||||||
| Risk asset matrix | |||||||
| Meaningful performance metrics and analytics | |||||||
| Ease of Use | |||||||
| Automatically build a plan to improve your score | |||||||
| Invite and onboard vendors with unlimited access to their Scorecard | |||||||
| Build custom workflows based on score changes | |||||||
| Compliance mapping with 20+ frameworks | |||||||
| Customer community & thought leadership | User Academy, Connect Online Customer Community | BitSight Training Academy | RiskRecon Academy | UpGuard Summit | CyberGRX Community | ||
| Award winning Customer Success and Support | |||||||
| API and extensibility | API-first platform with REST API, easy-to-use Developer Hub, and guides to build custom apps | Standard API | Fully functional bidirectional API | ||||
| Marketplace of Integrations & Apps | 60+ | 7 | 29 (CyberGRX) | 2 | 4+ | 2 | 5 |
| Customers | |||||||
| Number of customers (paid + free) | 15,000+ | 2,000+ | 3,400+ | 100s | Unknown | 300+ | 200+ |
| Gartner Peer Insights rating (from customers) | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| Gartner Peer Insights (% of customers likely to recommend) | 88% | 83% | 86% | 87% | 81% | 98% | 92% |
The Forrester New Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Rating Platforms, Q1 2021 report has recognized SecurityScorecard as a leader in cybersecurity risk ratings.
SecurityScorecard earned a differentiated rating (the highest rating possible) in the following evaluation criteria:
- Data accuracy
- Process transparency
- Dispute resolution
- Integration
- Breadth of use case
- Commercial strategy
Download your report today to see the new Cybersecurity Risk Rating Landscape and how each provider measures up.
The industry’s most expansive data set provides in-depth insights to make faster, smarter business decisions.
- 12+ Million Companies continuously monitored
- Over 50 Billion Vulnerabilities and attributions published weekly
- 10+ Million Infected IPs over 200 malware families identified daily
Get a unified view of any company’s risk posture—through SecurityScorecard’s platform, APIs, or integrations—with security ratings data automatically validated against questionnaire responses.
- Accelerate the vendor risk assessment process by 75% and cut the questionnaire cycle in half
- 60+ out-of-the-box integrations with leading industry solutions
Transparent scoring methodology behind SecurityScorecard’s comprehensive A-F grades is fair and 100% verifiable via the industry’s first public Trust Portal.
- Trusted by 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, banking institutions and telecommunications companies
- Trusted by all of the top 8 insurance companies
- Awarded Best Product in Security Ratings
- Founder-led with 40+ years of security experience
Hands-on customer support to maximize investment with a flexible fair use policy and open access to view and improve cybersecurity posture.
- Best-In-Class customer success team highly rated for “ease-of-setup”and “quality customer service”
- Over 98% satisfaction rate for customer service and support
- Winner of Best Customer Service by SC Media
I can base all my assessments off the security ratings because they’re very accurate. I have no part to play in assessing what score they should be. I trust SecurityScorecard to do it properly.