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What is UpGuard?

What is the difference between UpGuard Vendor Risk and UpGuard BreachSight?

Learn about the difference between UpGuard Vendor Risk, UpGuard BreachSight, and how they can work together.

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Notifications

What are notifications in UpGuard?

Notifications within UpGuard let you know when significant events occur or when you need to take some specific action.

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Security ratings

What happens if UpGuard scans a website that is in maintenance mode or unavailable?

Learn about how UpGuard treats domains that are in maintenance mode or unavailable.

Written by Abi Tyas Tunggal
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What services does UpGuard identify with port scanning?

Learn about the services that UpGuard can detect and monitor with its port scanning functionality.

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What are Security Ratings?

Learn about security ratings, their common use cases, and why security and third-party risk teams are adopting them.

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How does UpGuard collect data for its security ratings?

Learn how the data behind UpGuard's security ratings are collected.

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How are UpGuard's Security Ratings Calculated?

Learn how UpGuard's security ratings are calculated and why they are an accurate measure of your external security posture.

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How to improve your security rating

Learn how to improve your security rating in the UpGuard platform.

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How frequently does UpGuard scan websites?

Learn about UpGuard's scanning frequency and how quickly we add updated data to the UpGuard platform.

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Why do some risks appear as informational?

Learn more about how UpGuard classifies risks and why some of our risks appear as informational.

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User management

What user permissions does UpGuard have?

UpGuard offers granular user permissions to help you control access to your account.

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What is UpGuard’s Audit Log?

Learn about UpGuard’s Audit Log and the events that are captured by it.

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How to export your audit log

Learn how to export your audit log from the UpGuard platform

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How to add a user

Learn how to invite a user to the UpGuard platform.

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How to remove a user

Learn how to remove a user from the UpGuard platform.

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What SSO solutions does UpGuard support?

Learn about the SSO options that the UpGuard platform supports.

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How to edit the permissions or change the role of a user

Learn how administrators can manage the permissions of users

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How to create and manage custom roles

Learn how to use UpGuard's roles-based access control feature to create and manage custom roles.

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Templates and co-branding

How to set up templates

How to set up templates for remediation requests, risk assessments, questionnaires, and identity breach notifications in UpGuard

Written by Abi Tyas Tunggal
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How to enable custom branding

Learn how to add your company branding to any external communications and vendor risk reports generated in UpGuard.

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What are recurring reports?

Learn about how UpGuard can help automate your cybersecurity reporting

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What is the maximum upload file size for UpGuard?

Learn about the file upload limit in the UpGuard platform.

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How does UpGuard determine the ownership of my or my vendor's domains?

Learn how UpGuard determines ownership of a domain.

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How to manage your labels

Learn how to manage your domain and IP labels, as well as your vendor labels in UpGuard.

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How to manage your Home screen

Learn about how to use the Home screen to stay on top of what has happened in your UpGuard account since you last logged in

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How can I modify my existing labels?

Custom labels are a great way to sort your Domains or Vendors, but sometimes you may want to modify labels or remove one that's not in use.

Written by Meghan McCann
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What browsers work with UpGuard?

Learn about the browsers that are supported by the UpGuard platform

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What is Incidents & News?

Learn how UpGuard can help you stay on top of important security trends and news related to your industry and your vendors.

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What are UpGuard's password requirements?

Learn about the password requirements UpGuard has put in place to ensure your information remains secure.

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Resolving risks

Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities detection

Check if your organization or vendors have been exposed to the Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft on March 2, 2021.

Written by Abi Tyas Tunggal
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What's the difference between using HSTS and doing a 301 redirect?

Learn why you should use HSTS even if you have a 301 redirect from all HTTP pages to HTTPS

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How to create a DMARC policy

Learn about how to implement and manage your DMARC policy to resolve DMARC-related risks in the UpGuard platform.

Written by Andie Ryan
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Resolving "Domain was not found on the HSTS preload list" risk

Learn how to resolve this risk to prevent vulnerabilities to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Written by Andie Ryan
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The HTTP Still Available Check

This article covers the technical details, with examples, of why you might be failing the HTTP Still Available check.

Written by Steve Cossell
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