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December 2024

UpGuard's Updated Cyber Risk Ratings

Each year, we revisit our risk rating system to ensure it best reflects the needs of security practitioners safeguarding their organizations and supply chains. For our recentupdate, we’ve made two closely related changes: we’ve recategorized some of our existing findings to make an organization’s risk profile more understandable and recalibrated our scoring algorithm to more clearly illustrate the impact of specific risks.

Human Factors in Cybersecurity in 2025

Humans are often regarded as the weakest link in a cybersecurity program. Whether resulting from manipulative cybersecurity tactics or limited cybersecurity awareness, human errors remain the most prevalent attack vectors in every information security program, no matter how sophisticated your cybersecurity stack may be.

Critical Features Your Attack Surface Management Tool Must Have

Attack surface management (ASM) is becoming a vital tool for any organization that utilizes digital assets or is undergoing digital transformation. Whether it’s web applications, IoT devices, or endpoint entry points, every digital asset escalates an attack surface in complexity and size.

What is Enterprise Attack Surface Management?

The rapid expansion of the digital landscape adds increasing complexity to cybersecurity, especially for enterprises that could have up to 100,000 vendors in their supply chain. Addressing these challenges requires implementing an Attack Surface Management (ASM) strategy tailored to enterprise businesses' unique risk profiles. This post outlines the importance of ASM for enterprises and offers a strategy for ensuring its effective implementation.

What is Cyber Threat Detection and Response?

To compete in an era of dynamic, multimodal cyberattacks, cybersecurity programs must become multidimensional, capable of simultaneously contending with a wide range of cyber threats. In this post, we explain how your organization can develop such a multipronged approach with a branch of cybersecurity known as cybersecurity threat detection.