UpGuard

Company Overview

UpGuard is a cybersecurity platform providing Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM). Its technology assesses IT infrastructure internally and externally to determine potential risks for intrusions and outages, generating a CSTAR score that indicates risk levels for data breaches. UpGuard's products include Vendor Risk, Breach Risk, User Risk, Trust Exchange, Risk Automations, and Managed Vendor Assessments. The company serves over 50,000 organizations in more than 90 countries, with ADP, E*TRADE, Cisco Systems, NYSE, PagerDuty, IAG, Hopin, Morningstar, Riverside County, and Colorado State University listed as users.

Workplace Culture

UpGuard operates as a fully remote working environment without mandated office attendance, though it maintains physical offices in Sydney, Hobart, and Mountain View, California. The company emphasizes autonomy, development, and connection.

• Recognized as a Great Place to Work in the US, Australia, the UK, and India
• 99% of team members reportedly consider it a great place to work

Technology and Engineering

UpGuard's platform processes over 100 billion risk signals daily and has processed more than 23 billion tokens in the last 100 days for risk assessments. It has completed over 70,000 AI risk assessments and 700,000 AI autofill questionnaires. The product team utilizes React, Go, and Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform. The company also uses LastPass and Okta for single sign-on, and Duo for multi-factor authentication.

Working Conditions

The company offers a fully remote working environment. Employees are provided with top-spec laptops. Paid subscriptions for generative AI tools are available to all team members.

• Fully remote working environment
• Top-spec hardware provided
• Generative AI subsidy for team members
• Ability to cover a book of business on Eastern Time or Pacific Time for Customer Success Managers

Benefits and Perks

• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy
• WFH set-up allowance
• $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance
• Annual leave (PTO plus two additional UpGuardian leave days)
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave
• Personal Leave Allowance (sick & carer’s leave)
• Generative AI subsidy
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US employees)
• Gym reimbursement (US employees)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (US employees)