"2024 continues to be a pivotal year of investment for UpGuard," declared Mike Baukes, CEO and co-founder of UpGuard. "We take great pride in expanding our product capabilities, and the expertise of Fifita and Chuang has been vital as we've embarked on our next phase of growth." Post thisDetected Products expands UpGuard's scanning engine to automatically identify over 23,000 technologies and provides a 23% improvement in scanning year over year. The technologies this feature identifies include network devices, Javascript plugins, and hosting providers–all of which can pose significant security concerns that need to be addressed by an organization's TPRM program.EPSS is a public quantitative vulnerability score that uses data on actual vulnerability exploitations to derive risk and likelihood scores for known vulnerabilities. Compared to a common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS), a qualitative scoring system, EPSS is 10 times more efficient, harnessing the predictive power of its quantitative scoring method.By augmenting its suite of offerings with these cutting-edge enhancements, UpGuard reaffirms its unwavering commitment to alleviate the complexities of cybersecurity for security teams worldwide, tackling emerging challenges such as the prevalence of Shadow IT. As UpGuard forges ahead in its mission, it has also continued to appoint esteemed leaders to its executive team, ensuring the company is perpetually poised to drive innovation and resilience across the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.Mary Fifita joined UpGuard as Vice President of Corporate Development, harnessing her vast experience in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and business development. Fifita has already spearheaded strategic initiatives in her new role to accelerate growth, cultivate critical partnerships, and shape UpGuard's vision to expand its global presence.joined UpGuard as Vice President of Corporate Development, harnessing her vast experience in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and business development

Developers have a problem. It used to be the case that only large enterprises needed to worry themselves with security, but today, every startup is capable of holding huge amounts of customer data. That means developers across the board have to worry about how secure their platform is, and they often find themselves grappling with complicated tools to manage security.Now, Aikido, a small startup in Ghent, Belgium, thinks it has an answer to that dilemma: A no-nonsense, open source, developer-facing security platform. And the startup has just raised a $17 million Series A to further build out its product.“There have been security tools for three decades, but I think we’re the first where the buyer is the user. With other tools, the CSO is the buyer, but then some poor developer is the user. We are the ‘no BS’ platform,” Aikido’s founder and CTO, Willem Delbare, told TechCrunch.He has a point.Aikido’s main competitors tend to make tools that are aimed at larger enterprises than the people who actually have to deploy the tools

UpGuard, the third-party risk and attack surface management platform, has been recognized as the #1 Third Party and Supplier Risk Management software in G2's Winter 2024 reports, regaining its position as a leader in this category for the sixth consecutive quarter.