UpGuard

UpGuard Inc. is a cybersecurity company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2012. The company offers a platform that provides comprehensive assessments of an organization's IT infrastructure, both internally and externally, to calculate potential risks for data breaches and outages. Its key offering, the CyberSecurity Threat Assessment Report (CSTAR), delivers a straightforward score reflecting an organization’s risk level, which is useful for IT teams and executives alike. UpGuard's solutions include integrity monitoring, configuration differencing, advanced vulnerability analytics, and automated runbook generation. These tools enable clients to identify security gaps, streamline compliance testing, and enhance visibility into their infrastructure's true state. The company's services are utilized by thousands of organizations, including major firms like ADP, E*TRADE, and Cisco Systems, to validate their infrastructure, continuously detect risks, and manage cybersecurity insurance needs. UpGuard was previously known as ScriptRock Inc. before its rebranding in January 2016.