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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    UpGuard Vendor Risk

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AUpguard automates third party risk assessment workflows, and sends instant notifications about vendors’ security in one centralized dashboard with UpGuard’s Vendor Risk.N/A

    Vanta

    Score1 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Vanta is an automated security and compliance platform. Vanta helps businesses get and stay compliant by continuously monitoring people, systems and tools to improve security posture.N/A
    Pricing
    UpGuard Vendor RiskVanta
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    UpGuard Vendor RiskVanta
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    UpGuard Vendor RiskVanta
    Considered Both Products
    UpGuard
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    Vanta
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    80%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    78%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    80%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    UpGuard Vendor RiskVanta
    Governance, Risk & Compliance
    Comparison of Governance, Risk & Compliance features of UpGuard Vendor Risk and Vanta
    Feature
    UpGuard Vendor Risk
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    Ratings
    Vanta
    1.0
    9 Ratings
    152% below category average
    Common repository of GRC items00 Ratings1.09 Ratings
    Risk management00 Ratings1.08 Ratings
    Integration with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) systems00 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    GRC policy management00 Ratings1.06 Ratings
    Incident management00 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    User Ratings
    UpGuard Vendor RiskVanta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
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    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    UpGuard Vendor RiskVanta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    UpGuard
    UpGuard Vendor Risk is great when we need a quick view of a vendor’s external security posture, especially during fast-paced onboarding. It’s also very useful for continuous monitoring with visibility into changes at Vendor's side without repeatedly chasing vendors for updates. The only scenario it is not very helpful, is small vendors / start ups that dont have an external footprint, but in that case the questionnaire's can be used.
    Incentivized
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    Vanta
    Vanta seems excellent for startups, but I expect that they would be even more useful at bigger companies. I think it really helps people that haven't done SOC2 before. I also think it would help in monitoring compliance across teams with many users. If the budget is extremely tight, I think it would be possible to save money by not using it.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    UpGuard
    • Helped us automate our vendor risk questionnaires
    • Helps us continuously monitor our high-risk vendors
    • All vendor risk data is in one place, organized by risk level, criticality, and status
    Incentivized
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    Vanta
    • API driven capabilities offer a very easy way to connect your systems to their application.
    • It was mostly intuitive to figure out what needed to be configured.
    • I like how responsive they have been and how they have been able to outline the entire process for us from the start to the end.
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    Cons
    UpGuard
    • Integration with GRC systems, ticketing platforms could be stronger
    • More configurable dashboards will be helpful
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    Vanta
    • In my opinion, they make it very hard to contact them when you need something.
    • In my experience, they write their contracts to make it difficult to cancel service.
    • In my experience, they have no policy for refunds in addition to their [...] contacts.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    UpGuard
    No answers on this topic
    Vanta
    Great to maintain for our SOC2 compliance and further compliance evolutions
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    UpGuard
    It gives overall risk visibility into our supply chain
    Incentivized
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    Vanta
    In my experience, the sheer volume of tasks and to do items is a bit inundating.
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    Reliability and Availability
    UpGuard
    No answers on this topic
    Vanta
    Always available
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    Performance
    UpGuard
    No answers on this topic
    Vanta
    Fast although the agent may take some time to reping on checks
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    Support Rating
    UpGuard
    No answers on this topic
    Vanta
    Direct support and replies in a timely manner to tickets submitted
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    UpGuard
    No answers on this topic
    Vanta
    Pretty straight forward
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    UpGuard
    No answers on this topic
    Vanta
    Straight Forward
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    UpGuard
    No answers on this topic
    Vanta
    Pretty seemless and did it almost entirely myself
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    UpGuard
    We’ve evaluated other third-party security rating platforms, including those which focus heavily on questionnaires, self-assessments, and point-in-time reviews.
    UpGuard's usp is continuous monitoring and external risk visibility, automated questionnaires, which reduced our reliance on manual follow-ups. That said, most tools in this space still need to be complemented with internal reviews and contract-level risk assessments, depending on the vendor and use case.
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    Vanta
    Vanta's reporting was far superior, the price was competitive but my engineers running the project said that working with vanta would save them significant amount of time. Secondly vanta had more integrations so they could plug directly into the systems we use!
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    UpGuard
    No answers on this topic
    Vanta
    Works as intended
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    Return on Investment
    UpGuard
    • reduce the time and effort spent on vendor due diligence
    • it has improved our ability to identify higher-risk vendors early and focus remediation efforts where they matter most, rather than treating all vendors the same
    • more informed risk decisions
    Incentivized
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    Vanta
    • We were able to close contracts because we had our SOCII compliance in place
    • SOCII certification process was reduced by at least 80%
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Vanta Screenshots

    Screenshot of Vanta's task management, used to monitor a control system and take action on outstanding configuration issues, security issues, and required compliance tasks.Screenshot of the results of a risk assessment and identified risks to a business.Screenshot of policy that can be generated from templates or by uploading a company's existing policies that describe the business' internal and external commitments to security and compliance.Screenshot of vendor assessments.Screenshot of employee and contractor task completion status monitoring. Take action to flag ex-employee accounts to be deprovisioned or service accounts that are not included in onboarding processes.Screenshot of Vanta's monitoring, used to take action to remediate package vulnerabilities that have been detected on a company servers.