SecurityScorecard
IT risk management software
Vendor security and privacy assessment software
Risk assessment software
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What is SecurityScorecard
SecurityScorecard is a third-party cyber risk ratings and vendor assessment platform that helps organizations monitor the security posture of suppliers, partners, and their own external-facing assets. It is used by security, risk, and procurement teams to support vendor due diligence, continuous monitoring, and risk reporting. The product emphasizes outside-in measurement using observable internet signals, combined with workflows for questionnaires, evidence collection, and remediation collaboration.
Outside-in security ratings
The platform provides security ratings based on externally observable signals such as network configuration, exposed services, and indicators of compromise. This supports rapid initial triage of large vendor populations without requiring agent deployment or internal access. It also enables ongoing monitoring to detect changes over time that may affect vendor risk.
Vendor risk workflow support
SecurityScorecard includes capabilities to manage vendor assessments, including questionnaires and collaboration with vendors to address findings. Teams can centralize assessment artifacts and track remediation activities tied to identified issues. This helps operationalize third-party risk processes beyond one-time reviews.
Reporting for stakeholders
The product supports risk reporting that can be used by security leadership, procurement, and compliance stakeholders. Score-based views help communicate relative risk and prioritize follow-up actions across many third parties. This is useful when organizations need consistent, repeatable reporting across business units.
Limited view of internal controls
Outside-in ratings cannot directly validate internal security controls, governance practices, or the effectiveness of policies and procedures. Organizations often still need questionnaires, attestations, or audits to confirm control implementation. As a result, ratings should be treated as one input rather than a complete vendor security assessment.
Potential signal interpretation issues
Externally derived findings can be affected by shared infrastructure, subsidiaries, managed service providers, or complex domain ownership. This can lead to disputes about attribution or the relevance of certain observations to a specific vendor entity. Additional validation and vendor engagement may be required to reduce false positives or mis-scoped issues.
May not replace GRC tooling
While it supports vendor assessment workflows, it may not cover broader enterprise GRC needs such as comprehensive control libraries, policy management, internal audit management, or multi-framework compliance programs. Organizations with mature governance requirements may need complementary systems for enterprise-wide risk and compliance management. Integration and process alignment can add implementation effort.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 (Free) | Access to your own SecurityScorecard rating at no cost; includes a 14-day trial of the Business edition; no credit card required; view your organization’s internet-facing assets and basic self-monitoring features. |
| Business | Contact Sales (not publicly listed) | Free Plan benefits plus: continuously monitor up to 5 companies, daily alerts and API access for vendor monitoring, automated vendor ecosystem and board reports, integrations (Slack, JIRA, 50+), advanced vendor management and compliance file management. (Pricing: contact sales.) |
| Enterprise | Contact Sales (not publicly listed) | Business benefits plus: custom number of monitored scorecards, proactive automated alerting, custom compliance frameworks, dedicated Customer Success Manager and priority support. (Pricing: contact sales.) |
| MAX (Managed Service) | Contact Sales (not publicly listed) | Managed service delivered by SecurityScorecard experts to assess, monitor, and respond to supply-chain cyber risk; professional services and managed offerings. (Pricing: contact sales.) |
Seller details
SecurityScorecard, Inc.
New York, NY, USA
2013
Private
https://securityscorecard.com/
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