UpGuard vs Whistic

UpGuard is a cloud platform for managing cyber risk across an organization’s vendors, digital footprint, and workforce. Vendor Risk supplies continuous vendor insights, assessments, and AI-powered workflows. Attack Surface Management monitors an organization’s digital footprint to help detect threats, while Trust Exchange provides questionnaire automation, a Trust Page, and collaboration features. The platform supports remediation tracking and advanced risk prioritization, with access through web and API. Listed integrations include Jira Cloud, Slack, and ServiceNow, plus connections to more than 4,000 apps through Zapier. Vendor Risk tiers list API access and SSO. Standard covers 50 vendors; Enterprise+ includes unlimited vendors and platform users. The free plan is available, and paid plans start at $250/mo. Standard is listed at $1,750 a month when billed annually. UpGuard says customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit, and its security program aligns with ISO/IEC 27001; it also reports SOC 2 Type II compliance and annual attestation.

Whistic is a third-party risk platform for vendor assessments, vendor monitoring, internal control testing, and customer security requests. Whistic Assess gathers vendor evidence, maps it to controls, identifies gaps, catalogs issues, and supports documented risk decisions. Vendor Monitoring displays severity-rated events with evidence and context, from which teams can create issues or launch targeted assessments. The Compliance product supports control definitions, manual tests or tests with the Browser Agent, and evidence history. Its Trust Center provides a self-service security profile, controlled access to approved evidence, and questionnaire responses based on reviewed content. Integrations listed include Jira, Salesforce, Slack, and BitSight; APIs synchronize risk-management data with enterprise systems. Whistic says it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and working toward ISO 27001. Pricing is customized, and the Core package lists 25 assessments, five Smart Responses, five Assessment Copilot uses, five Vendor Insights uses, and one Trust Center. Vendors can create a free Basic Whistic Profile for the Whistic Network. The platform is available on web and through an API.