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RiskRecon vs SecurityScorecard

RiskRecon sells vendor security monitoring that is custom-tuned to match a customer's risk policy. SecurityScorecard sells a platform for continuous vendor monitoring, automated assessments and risk intelligence. CISO Tribune files both under Third-party risk and security ratings. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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RiskRecon vs SecurityScorecard: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
RiskReconRiskRecon sells vendor security monitoring that is custom-tuned to match a customer's risk policy.riskrecon.comSecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard sells a platform for continuous vendor monitoring, automated assessments and risk intelligence.securityscorecard.com
What it sells
  • RiskRecon[2][3][5][6][7][8][9][10][15]Vendor security monitoring that is custom-tuned to match a customer's risk policy.
  • RiskRecon Privacy Risk Rating[10]RiskRecon Privacy Risk Rating gives insights into a vendor's privacy practices.
  • Cyber Quant[5][11]Cyber Quant translates technical cybersecurity data into financial and business metrics.
  • Cyber Crisis Exercise[12]Cyber Crisis Exercise combines Mastercard cybersecurity expertise, threat intelligence and realistic simulation technology to help organizations evaluate and strengthen their crisis response capabilities.
  • TITAN AI[3][4][5][6][8][13][17][18]A platform that unifies threat intelligence and third-party data to deliver real-time visibility.
  • TITAN Assess[19]Automates both sides of the security questionnaire with AI-powered workflows and expert human verification.
  • TITAN MAX[20]A managed service built on the SecurityScorecard platform.
  • ChatSSC[16]An agentic AI-powered assistant for questions about SecurityScorecard data.
  • RespondAI[19]Drafts questionnaire answers from a centralized Knowledge Base.
Categories
Headquarters
Salt Lake City, United States[4]New York, United States[2]
Founded
Not stated on its pages2013[2]
Ownership and funding
Owned by Mastercard[5][9]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
Not stated on its pages
  • September 9, 2026SecurityScorecard announced that Sarah Walker has joined the company as President, working alongside its founder and CEO.[11]
  • September 9, 2026SecurityScorecard named Sarah Walker as its President.[12]
  • August 26, 2026SecurityScorecard announced that Sami Khoury, a former Government of Canada cyber security official, has joined its Public Sector Advisory Board.[14]
  • May 14, 2026SecurityScorecard announced its acquisition of Driftnet, whose internet discovery engine is to be brought into the TITAN AI platform.[13]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[15]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
Not written yetFrom its own pages, the company addresses CISOs and risk and compliance professionals. It also has pages for information technology organizations, hospitality and gaming, and critical infrastructure. The critical infrastructure page names energy grids, transportation networks, and public utilities. The hospitality page refers to a lean internal security team, and the information technology page refers to tech companies with SaaS sprawl and developer ecosystem risks.
Last verified
November 2, 2026September 27, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Third-party risk and security ratings is the primary category of both RiskRecon and SecurityScorecard.
  • Both are headquartered in the United States.

Where they differ, field by field

  • SecurityScorecard is also filed under Threat intelligence.
  • RiskRecon lists RiskRecon, RiskRecon Privacy Risk Rating, Cyber Quant and Cyber Crisis Exercise. SecurityScorecard lists TITAN AI, TITAN Assess, TITAN MAX, ChatSSC and RespondAI.
  • RiskRecon is headquartered in Salt Lake City, United States. SecurityScorecard is headquartered in New York, United States.
  • SecurityScorecard was founded in 2013.
  • RiskRecon is owned by Mastercard.

How they differ

RiskRecon sells vendor security monitoring that is tuned to a customer's risk policy, and it monitors third-party cyber risk based on a vendor's Internet presence. It also sells Cyber Quant, which translates technical cybersecurity data into financial and business metrics, and Cyber Crisis Exercise, a crisis response simulation.

SecurityScorecard sells TITAN AI, a platform that unifies threat intelligence and third-party data for real-time visibility. Its other products include TITAN Assess for security questionnaires, TITAN MAX, a managed service, ChatSSC, an AI assistant, and RespondAI, which drafts questionnaire answers.

RiskRecon is headquartered in Salt Lake City, United States, and is owned by Mastercard. SecurityScorecard is headquartered in New York, United States, and was founded in 2013. SecurityScorecard has pages for CISOs, risk and compliance professionals, hospitality and gaming, and critical infrastructure. On May 14, 2026, SecurityScorecard announced its acquisition of Driftnet, whose internet discovery engine is to be brought into the TITAN AI platform. On September 9, 2026, it also named a new President.

What it sells: RiskRecon

What RiskRecon does[2][3][5][6][7][8][9][10][15]
RiskRecon customers can share RiskRecon action plans with vendors, giving them access to the security issues and tools needed to address the items that are important to the customer. RiskRecon automatically tracks and reports each vendor's progress in addressing their action plan issues.
What RiskRecon Privacy Risk Rating does[10]
Vendors are evaluated across six privacy domains and assigned a rating from A to F. Machine learning models compile data from various sources to create a privacy risk profile for third-party vendors.
What Cyber Quant does[5][11]
Cyber Quant combines risk quantification, threat intelligence, control maturity insights and executive reporting in a unified workflow. Financial impact analysis and scenario simulations are used to compare remediation strategies and prioritize investments.
What Cyber Crisis Exercise does[12]
Crisis scenarios are customized based on likely attack vectors, industry trends, threat intelligence and the organization's operating environment. A post-exercise assessment covers strengths, gaps, benchmark insights and recommendations.

What it sells: SecurityScorecard

What TITAN AI does[3][4][5][6][8][13][17][18]
TITAN AI unifies intelligent automation, predictive insight, and vendor interactions. TITAN AI owns the data and runs the workflow natively. TITAN AI connects to existing tools, maps every vendor relationship, and runs continuous discovery with coordinated multi-vendor response. The platform provides always-on third-party monitoring to detect vulnerabilities, threat actor behavior, and nth-party relationships across entire ecosystems.
What TITAN Assess does[19]
TITAN Assess automates both sides of the questionnaire, answering what customers send and managing what is sent to vendors. Questionnaires can be imported or started from SIG or CAIQ Lite and sent to one vendor or an entire portfolio with a single passwordless link. An agent checks every answer against the customer's policy, verifies the vendor's evidence, and calculates a risk score automatically. Customers can publish a Trust Page with verified security information, SOC 2 reports, and policies.
What TITAN MAX does[20]
A standard SecurityScorecard subscription provides the platform for the customer to manage, while TITAN MAX is a managed service built on the SecurityScorecard platform. TITAN MAX is primarily delivered by certified partners. TITAN MAX operates a Vendor Risk Operations Center (VROC) for continuous vendor security monitoring. TITAN MAX works directly with vendors to resolve issues and improve their cybersecurity posture.
What ChatSSC does[16]
SecurityScorecard provides ChatSSC for quick answers about SecurityScorecard data. ChatSSC helps users pinpoint the most critical issues to fix, understand historical score changes, and gain insights into past breaches.
What RespondAI does[19]
RespondAI uses a centralized Knowledge Base to draft answers. RespondAI combines generative AI with a team of certified human reviewers. Customers can import Excel, Word, or PDF questionnaires.

Questions about RiskRecon and SecurityScorecard

What do RiskRecon and SecurityScorecard sell?
RiskRecon sells RiskRecon, RiskRecon Privacy Risk Rating, Cyber Quant and Cyber Crisis Exercise. SecurityScorecard sells TITAN AI, TITAN Assess, TITAN MAX, ChatSSC and RespondAI.
Are RiskRecon and SecurityScorecard in the same category?
Yes. Third-party risk and security ratings is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are RiskRecon and SecurityScorecard headquartered?
RiskRecon is headquartered in Salt Lake City, United States. SecurityScorecard is headquartered in New York, United States.
When were RiskRecon and SecurityScorecard founded?
SecurityScorecard was founded in 2013.
Who owns RiskRecon and SecurityScorecard?
RiskRecon is owned by Mastercard.
Who are RiskRecon and SecurityScorecard sold to?
From its own pages, the company addresses CISOs and risk and compliance professionals.
What have RiskRecon and SecurityScorecard announced recently?
September 9, 2026: SecurityScorecard announced that Sarah Walker has joined the company as President, working alongside its founder and CEO.

About RiskRecon

RiskRecon sells vendor security monitoring that is custom-tuned to match a customer's risk policy. RiskRecon is a Mastercard company. RiskRecon monitors third-party cyber risk, including the cyber risk of their vendors, based purely on their Internet presence. RiskRecon action plans are prioritized by asset value and issue severity.[2][6][7]

Cyber risk can originate in supply chain layers beyond an organization's immediate third parties. RiskRecon reporting identifies fourth-party concentration risk. RiskRecon provides data on which vendors are exposed to critical vulnerabilities.[6][8]

Every RiskRecon assessment is custom-fitted to match a customer's risk appetite. Value at risk is determined automatically for every system, based on the data types the system collects and the system functionality. RiskRecon customers can share RiskRecon action plans with vendors, giving them access to the security issues and tools needed to address the items that are important to the customer. RiskRecon automatically tracks and reports each vendor's progress in addressing their action plan issues. RiskRecon provides the IT environment details and an objective cybersecurity assessment before analysts engage a vendor. RiskRecon provides data-driven insights for prioritizing vendor risk assessments. RiskRecon provides objective assessments for each of the parties being evaluated in a new vendor selection process.[6][8][15]

RiskRecon continuously monitors the cybersecurity of a customer's own enterprise. RiskRecon assesses the security risk of internet-facing systems across multiple security domains spanning 41 security criteria, covering areas such as software patching, web encryption and email security. An acquisition's asset inventory can be compared with systems discovered through RiskRecon's proprietary method.[8]

RiskRecon allows organizations to measure privacy risk across the entire vendor ecosystem. Vendors are evaluated across six privacy domains and assigned a rating from A to F. Machine learning models compile data from various sources to create a privacy risk profile for third-party vendors. The privacy rating verifies the presence of a privacy policy and analyzes the details of the policy to ensure privacy rights are included. The privacy rating determines whether a consent management (opt-in/opt-out) system is present for customers to specify how and with whom their personal information will be shared. The privacy rating assesses whether data collected on websites is securely encrypted both during collection and while in transit. The privacy rating detects whether personal data is transmitted or stored in the E.U., U.K., U.N. or OFAC countries known to have comprehensive sanctions related to technology or telecommunications. The privacy rating identifies instances where personal data may have been compromised and checks whether authorities have flagged issues in a company's handling of personal information.[10]

Cyber Quant translates technical cybersecurity data into financial and business metrics. Cyber Quant combines risk quantification, threat intelligence, control maturity insights and executive reporting in a unified workflow. Financial impact analysis and scenario simulations are used to compare remediation strategies and prioritize investments. Cyber Crisis Exercise combines Mastercard cybersecurity expertise, threat intelligence and realistic simulation technology to help organizations evaluate and strengthen their crisis response capabilities. Crisis scenarios are customized based on likely attack vectors, industry trends, threat intelligence and the organization's operating environment. A post-exercise assessment covers strengths, gaps, benchmark insights and recommendations. Threat Protection differentiates between good and bad bots. Global Threat Protection Centers are available 24/7/365, removing bad traffic at both network and application layers. Threat Intelligence lays the foundation for Threat Protection, and the threat data comes from a global sensor network. Approximately 5-10k honeypots are deployed globally to gather threat intelligence.[1][3][6][8][11][12][13][14]

RiskRecon on the record

Sources

RiskRecon full record

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  2. [2]Video understand and act on third party risk with riskreconRiskRecon, a Mastercard Company · riskrecon.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
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SecurityScorecard full record

  1. [1]securityscorecard.comSecurityScorecard · securityscorecard.com · published July 17, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Securityscorecard partners with sequoia in 125 million series a funding round 300054965SecurityScorecard via PR Newswire · prnewswire.com · published March 24, 2015 · Tier A
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  4. [4]TPRM & GRC Tools for Risk and Compliance TeamsSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]TPRM for CISOs | Supply Chain Risk ManagementSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]Supply Chain Cybersecurity Platform | SecurityScorecard TITAN AISecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]DORA Compliance for Third-Party ICT Risk ManagementSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Cybersecurity for IT Professionals | SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Hospitality Gaming - SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Critical Infrastructure - SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]SecurityScorecard Names Sarah Walker President as Company Expands Its Mission for the AI EraSecurityScorecard · published September 9, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]SecurityScorecard Names Sarah Walker President as Company Expands Its Mission for the AI EraBusiness Wire · published September 9, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]SecurityScorecard Acquires Driftnet to Power Real-Time, Threat-Informed Third-Party Risk ManagementSecurityScorecard · published May 14, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]SecurityScorecard Appoints Former Government of Canada Senior Official for Cyber Security Sami Khoury to Public Sector Advisory BoardSecurityScorecard · published August 26, 2026 · Tier A
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  16. [16]TITAN AI Agents | Accelerated Risk Intelligence | SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]TITAN AI Workflow | Vendor Compliance Monitoring & Supply Chain VisibilitySecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]Supply Chain Threat Intelligence | SecurityScorecardSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]Titan Assess | AI-Powered Questionnaire AutomationSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A
  20. [20]TITAN MAX | Managed Security & Third-Party Risk ServicesSecurityScorecard · undated page, accessed November 10, 2026 · Tier A

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