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Introducing UpGuard's New SIG Lite Questionnaire

Whether you're expanding use cases, adding new vendors, or scaling the scope of your offerings, you need to keep apprised of potential security risks impacting your organization. UpGuard has added the SIG Lite questionnaire to our Questionnaire Library, making SIG available to help UpGuard customers evaluate third-party risks and potential vulnerabilities in your vendors' security policies.

What is the Probability of a Data Breach?

Cybercrime is on the rise. By 2025, the cost of cybercrime around the world is estimated to escalate to $10.5 trillion, based on a year-over-year increase of 15%. This number represents the potential for the largest transfer of economic wealth in history and exceeds even the total global profits from the illegal drug trade.

Secure Third-Party Connections

Riscosity has joined forces with SecurityScorecard! This new partnership enables SecurityScorecard and Riscosity users to scale their business using only trusted vendors and ensuring that the right data is going to the right place. Together we’re helping compliance and security teams scale their programs, and significantly reduce their applications' attack surface.

Navigating the Challenges of Enterprise Vulnerability Management

When you’re managing cybersecurity at the enterprise level, it’s crucial to have a full breadth of understanding of the ins-and-outs of your enterprise vulnerability management program — including all of the challenges that come along with it. Only then can you begin to effectively prioritize risks and get ahead of vulnerabilities as quickly as possible. In this webinar, join our panelists of cybersecurity experts as they discuss.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) FAQ

FedRAMP, which stands for Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, is a U.S. government-wide program that standardizes the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring processes for cloud products and services used by federal agencies. The goal of FedRAMP is to ensure the security of cloud-based systems and protect sensitive government data. Key objectives of FedRAMP include.

Why every security team needs to be prepared for the unexpected

The traditional enterprise risk model is a thing of the past. Cybersecurity risk cascades into almost every part of an organization, triggering legal fallout, technology risk, compliance issues, and more. Bottom line, third-party cyber risk is a material business risk. A recent report found that 80% of organizations experienced at least one data breach caused by a third party last year.

SecurityScorecard Achieves FedRAMP 'Ready' Designation

SecurityScorecard is proud to announce that it has achieved the Ready Designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). This designation demonstrates SecurityScorecard’s commitment to the rigorous security standards required by the U.S. government for cloud service providers, and it will enable the company to meet growing demand from U.S. federal agencies for its Third-Party Cyber Risk Management Platform. U.S.

SecurityScorecard Research Investigates Chinese Threat Actor Group

In late August, Microsoft published its analysis of espionage activity tied to a new threat actor group called Flax Typhoon, which is believed to operate on behalf of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The group mainly targets Taiwanese critical infrastructure, including: government, education, manufacturing, and information technology sectors.

Vendor Offboarding: Best Practices for Ensuring Security

When organizations hear “third-party risk management,” they often consider the processes needed to mitigate risks when working with a third-party vendor. These can include procurement risks and risks associated with starting new vendor relationships, often referred to as "onboarding,”—but what about when a working relationship ends?

CISA KEV's Known Ransomware Attribution

This past week, Patrick Garrity, Security Researcher at Nucleus, spent a lot of time exploring Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's update the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which now includes attribution to vulnerabilities associated with ransomware campaigns. In this short video, he explores this new addition and walks through the data visualizations he created to provide broader visibility into this new addition.