SecurityScorecard performs deep analysis over the exposed view of data. It creates an external IT assessment of the company in terms of domain and vendor reports. Essentially, it scans the company's landscape, trying to find vulnerabilities and exposed data that may cause digital risks.
We were asked by a customer to respond to issues raised on the platform regarding our security score. We are using the free offering at the moment. For something that was not part of our selection, I would like to have more features available. In that context, a paid subscription is way out of line for an organization of our size. As the approach is widely automated information gathering, there is a wide gap from free to paid which makes it hard for smaller organizations to get better security awareness. There is always the notion that a breach is expensive, however, that does not mean vendors can collect anything they like in terms of pricing. It has to be reasonable.
Funded by world-class investors including Evolution Equity Partners, Silver Lake Partners, Sequoia Capital, GV, Riverwood Capital, and others, SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings with more than 12 million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for enterprise risk management, third-party risk management,...
SecurityScorecard is primarily used for supply chain risk management.
SecurityScorecard performs deep analysis over the exposed view of data. It creates an external IT assessment of the company in terms of domain and vendor reports. Essentially, it scans the company's landscape, trying to find vulnerabilities and exposed data that may cause digital risks.
The primary use case for SecurityScorecard is to assess and manage third-party cybersecurity risks within organizations.
This tool is a platform for monitoring and assessing the security posture of organizations and also helps to improve the posture by recommendations
We use SecurityScorecard for reporting.
We were asked by a customer to respond to issues raised on the platform regarding our security score. We are using the free offering at the moment. For something that was not part of our selection, I would like to have more features available. In that context, a paid subscription is way out of line for an organization of our size. As the approach is widely automated information gathering, there is a wide gap from free to paid which makes it hard for smaller organizations to get better security awareness. There is always the notion that a breach is expensive, however, that does not mean vendors can collect anything they like in terms of pricing. It has to be reasonable.