BreachSight Evaluation Guide

Written by David Cook
 

UpGuard BreachSight identifies the cyber-related risks that your company is directly exposed to.


Follow these steps in UpGuard BreachSight for a robust security posture and risk mitigation.

Step 1 Gain an overview of your security posture

  • Click on the Executive Summary to understand the security score of your organization. Filter the score based on the past 3, 6, or 12 months.

  • Monitor competitors by clicking "Add competitor" and entering their name or URL.

  • Customize the data according to your requirements using the “Customize page“ option.

Step 2 Review your risks

  • Navigate to your Risk Profile

  • Investigate the risks that have been identified across your external attack surface

  • Learn how these risks are affecting your score and take corrective action against them

Step 3 Review your Domains and IPs

  • Click on Domains and IP Addresses to view your Domains and IPs.

  • Use labels to tag and segregate your critical assets.

  • Investigate the individual scores and risks of each domain and IP.

  • Add any missing domains using the "Add domain" or "Add IP" option

    ⭐️ Tip: Reach out to our Support team for bulk uploads of domains

Step 4 Use Detected Products to identify shadow IT

  • Build out your technology inventory through Detected Products.

  • Identify products running on your domains and IPs.

  • Choose "View By Vendor" to understand your technology dependency on specific vendors

Step 5 Create a Remediation ticket

  • Determine risks that need to be remediated using the Remediation feature.

  • Click on “Request Remediation” and select risks to remediate

  • Use the remediation planner to create an improvement plan.

Step 6 Review your Vulnerabilities

Step 7 Review your Identity Breaches

Step 8 Monitor Typosquatting domains

  • Identify typosquatting risks by exploring permutations of your domains.

    ⭐️ Tip: Proactively block suspicious domains in your web and email filtering

Step 9 Publish your Trust Page

  • Navigate to the "Trust Page".

  • Add your security-related information such as security ratings, security contracts, completed security questionnaires, and supporting documents.

    ⭐️ Tip: Proactively share this information with your customers through the “Share” button in the top-right corner.

Step 10 Export and share reports

  • Head to the Reporting Hub to view a range of generatable reports

  • Alternatively, download each section in Excel or PDF format by clicking the "Export" option at the top right corner of each page.

  • Aggregate data from various sections and obtain a comprehensive overview report of your attack surface.

  • Use filters to identify specific trends across various labels, tiers, portfolios, and other attributes.

Step 11 Additional: Monitor your Subsidiaries

  • Monitor the attack surface of your subsidiaries individually for risk identification and mitigation.

  • Reach out to our Support team to add any additional subsidiaries.