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By Cassy van Eeden
Most teams that assess cloud vendors already have a general idea of the Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) and Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). However, you may not have a good answer for what it takes to run that assessment. Turning a vendor's trust center page, SOC 2 report, and security policy into a structured, defensible view of CCM control coverage is a different problem entirely.
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By Revashni Moodley
Most vendor onboarding and app access work is waiting and follow-ups. Waiting for someone to notice a form came in, assign a tier, chase a questionnaire, or dig up the context behind a Slack request. Risk Automations workflows remove that wait and automate the follow-up. A trigger fires, and the workflow runs to a concrete outcome: a ticket created, a message sent, a risk tier assigned. To make those workflows easier to launch, Risk Automations includes an ever-expanding template library.
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By Shane Moosa
You approve five AI tools; your employees use 20. According to UpGuard's State of Shadow AI report, 81% of the workforce is already bringing unmonitored AI tools to work, and legacy security tools are leaving massive gaps in workforce Shadow AI and regulatory compliance. Modern AI governance platforms give you real-time visibility and runtime guardrails to close that gap. They back it up with automated auditing, so you have evidence when someone asks for it.
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By Lance Turner
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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By Cassy van Eeden
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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By Revashni Moodley
“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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By Greg Pollock
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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By Shane Moosa
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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By Shane Moosa
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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By Greg Pollock
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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By 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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By UpGuard
Eliminate manual handoffs. Learn how to build a self-executing third-party risk program that synchronizes internal teams across your organization’s tools and workflows to drive immediate, policy-aligned outcomes. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The browser is the primary attack surface of 2026. See how to enforce real-time Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and credential integrity to neutralize unauthorized data egress and password reuse in-session. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The Onboarding Blueprint: Engineering a Gold-Standard Process Learn how to leverage the Vendor Onboarding Portal to stop chasing shadow IT and mitigate risk before exposure. Our Customer Education team will provide a tactical framework to automate vendor tiering and transform manual bottlenecks into a self-executing intake engine. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The Supply Chain Uplift: Driving Ecosystem Maturity Stop acting as an auditor and start acting as a partner. Learn how Combe Inc. uses real-time telemetry to identify vendor risks before they are reported, creating a positive feedback loop that hardens the entire supply chain. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The MCP Exposure: Governing the Newest Entry Point, MCP has created a silent governance gap in the AI ecosystem. Learn how to gain the visibility needed to detect brand impersonation, identify malicious servers, and vet AI agent connections to prevent unauthorized data access. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The MCP Exposure: Governing the Newest Entry Point MCP has created a silent governance gap in the AI ecosystem. Learn how to gain the visibility needed to detect brand impersonation, identify malicious servers, and vet AI agent connections to prevent unauthorized data access. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
The MCP Exposure: Governing the Newest Entry Point MCP has created a silent governance gap in the AI ecosystem. Learn how to gain the visibility needed to detect brand impersonation, identify malicious servers, and vet AI agent connections to prevent unauthorized data entry.
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By UpGuard
The Zero-Lag Posture See how UpGuard is moving beyond static defense to a model that identifies emerging vectors like MCP servers and neutralizes browser-based threats in real time. Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?
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By UpGuard
In 2026, a slow assessment is a security risk. Every day spent in manual handoffs is a day of exposure for your organization. Join us at UpGuard Summit to see how our new Risk Automations engine transforms TPRM from a static checklist into an autonomous system. We will show you how to automate everything from vendor follow-ups to instant Jira routing for IT and Legal.
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By UpGuard
You understand the risks that third party vendors pose to your business, and you're ready to do something about it. What are the capabilities you need to understand your cyber risk, manage your vendors, and avoid data breaches?
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By UpGuard
The fact that one has to "make a case" for Microsoft in the DevOps sphere puts them at a disadvantage, especially competing against major open source options with large community bases and proven performance. But, moving forward, one can expect the gap between Microsoft and other tools to close further, as they continue pressing their business in this direction.
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By UpGuard
Perhaps your organization is looking to make a transition from traditional IT operations and development practices to DevOps, or you're looking to realign your career path with DevOps to position yourself more favorably to future opportunities. Whatever your motivations are, this eBook will provide you with foundation knowledge for boosting your career with DevOps.
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By UpGuard
ServiceNow® customers optimizing their IT service delivery and management processes require deeper context and detail level behind IT asset changes--information the leading help desk automation and incident reporting platform does not provide. In this report you'll learn how UpGuard fills this visibility and awareness gap, keeping ServiceNow® in line with the true state of your environment.
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By UpGuard
Cybersecurity is officially dead. Worldwide spending on security-related hardware, software and services rose to $73.7 billion in 2016 from $68.2 billion a year earlier, according to researcher IDC. This number is expected to approach $90 billion in 2018.
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By UpGuard
Selecting a security provider is no easy feat-it includes months of designing a company's security strategy, evaluating different solutions, budgeting accordingly, and assuring stakeholders the investment will pay off by keeping their business safe.
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By UpGuard
DevOps and ITIL should be compared with an eye towards the problem you're trying to solve, with a focus on the tangible benefits you and your team would see from using each.
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By UpGuard
With the enterprise so dependent on technology and digitized assets, how can it prevent data-related disasters from sinking the business? The answer is by taking a new approach to managing cyber risk as a function of business risk at large. McKinsey calls this "Digital Resilience", but it can simply be thought of as conducting business safely in today's connected environments.
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By UpGuard
Software engineering is changing and DevOps is at the heart of it. An organization's ability to be responsive to the business requires better collaboration, communication, and integration across IT.
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By UpGuard
There is no doubt that the DevOps movement has gone mainstream. When even IBM and HP are dedicating sites to it there is no longer any question. If we were to place it on the Gartner Hype Cycle even the most devoted proponents would have to admit that it's rapidly approaching the "Peak of Inflated Expectations".
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