# Cyber Company Profiles: SecurityScorecard

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## At a Glance

- Website: [securityscorecard.com](https://securityscorecard.com)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/securityscorecard
- Type: Governance Risk Compliance, Threat Intelligence
- Also known as: SecurityScorecard, Inc.
- Market readiness: Established (27/40)
- Defensibility: Defensible (15/21)
- Founded: 2013
- Funding: $292.2M total
- Last updated: 2026-08-20

## Executive Summary

SecurityScorecard grades how well other organizations defend themselves, judging them from outside their networks. It sells those grades to security and vendor-risk teams alongside questionnaire automation and threat intelligence. Forrester ranked it first for current offering in its 2024 review of this market. A successor evaluation followed in April 2026, and the Forrester analyst writing alongside it said the influence of ratings will diminish as the intelligence driving risk reduction becomes the value. SecurityScorecard is building toward that outcome itself, buying two companies since 2025 and wrapping threat intelligence around the grade. The company says the collection underneath those grades is its own, supplying 99 percent of the data it uses.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | SecurityScorecard rates the security posture of organizations from outside their networks and sells those ratings alongside questionnaire automation, threat intelligence and managed services as a third-party risk platform. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2013 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | New York, New York, United States | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Funding | $292.2M total | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Series E, $180M, March 2021 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| TITAN Watch | Continuous outside-in monitoring that assigns letter-grade security ratings to an organization and its vendors and surfaces third and fourth parties. |
| TITAN Assess | Security-questionnaire automation that drafts responses with generative AI, with an opt-in review of those responses by people the company calls certified experts. |
| TITAN Secure | Vendor-risk workflow that combines rating signals with threat intelligence to prioritize vendor exposures and guide breach triage. |
| TITAN MAX Managed Services | Managed third-party risk service, which the company says certified partners primarily deliver, running vendor assessment, monitoring and remediation follow-up around the platform. |
| TITAN AI Agents | Task agents that run portfolio analysis, vendor outreach, remediation planning and reporting inside the rating platform. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [Cyber Defense Matrix](https://cyberdefensematrix.com) [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Networks | ✓ |  | ✓ |  |  |
| Devices | ✓ |  |  |  |  |
| Applications | ✓ |  |  |  |  |

TITAN Watch inventories internet-exposed addresses, ports and service fingerprints for an organization and its vendors, and the rating factors include DNS health and IP reputation drawn from the company's own sinkhole and honeypot sensors. These capabilities are mapped to the Cyber Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (27/40)**

Analyzed 2026-08-20. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 | Forrester's senior analyst on this market told BankInfoSecurity in 2024 that chief information security officers had questioned whether ratings platforms repaid the investment, which names the buyer and the doubt, and the reviewed sources carry no independent measurement of the loss third-party breaches cause. \[[s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 | The vendor documents its collection in specifics, from 4.1 billion scanned addresses and ten rating factor categories to sensors on three continents, and Forrester's 2024 evaluation both ranked the current offering first and named two concrete weaknesses in it. \[[s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Market Timing | 3/5 | Forrester assessed ten vendors in a named 2024 evaluation of this market and its analyst discussed how chief information security officers weigh investing in it, which is indirect buyer-side demand rather than buyers actively searching. The regulatory case is the vendor's own paper describing support for DORA, NIS2 and NYDFS, and the Forrester analyst writing alongside the April 2026 successor says the influence of ratings will diminish as intelligence becomes the primary source of value. \[[s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s22](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 | Both founders still hold executive roles more than a decade after the Series Seed round their 2013 filing covers, the chief financial officer arrived from a decade at Tenable, and two acquired founders now run product lines, but the reviewed sources record no prior exit by either founder. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| GTM Proof | 4/5 | Named references span Aflac, Children's Minnesota and Horizon Media on the vendor's pages and Nokia, Liberty Mutual and AXA in a 2021 SiliconANGLE report relaying the company's own account, and Forrester's 2024 evaluation independently placed the current offering first. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Funding Efficiency | 3/5 | No round after the $180 million Series E that SiliconANGLE reported on 18 March 2021 appears in the reviewed sources, and the company has since completed two acquisitions and shipped the TITAN AI engine SecurityWeek called newly launched, which is visible output without a revenue, margin or growth-efficiency figure behind it. \[[s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 | Forrester runs a named evaluation of security-ratings platforms across editions in 2024 and April 2026, and the 2024 edition placed SecurityScorecard first for the strength of its current offering, so buyers and analysts place the company without vendor coaching. The analyst writing alongside the 2026 edition expects the category's influence to diminish as intelligence becomes the primary source of value. \[[s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 | The rated population and the sensor network are real accumulation and give a platform vendor something to catch up to, but nine other vendors were assessed in the same 2024 evaluation and Forrester's analyst expects the influence of ratings to diminish as intelligence becomes the primary source of value. \[[s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources)\] |

### Business Risks

- Forrester's analyst wrote in April 2026 that the influence of ratings will diminish as the intelligence driving risk reduction becomes the primary source of value, which would leave SecurityScorecard selling a component of someone else's platform.
- A funded rival can rebuild outside-in collection, and nine other vendors were assessed in the same 2024 Forrester evaluation of this market.
- The FedRAMP Marketplace records no authority-to-operate or authority-to-use letter against the ratings product, so a federal buyer that needs one today cannot rely on this listing for it.
- No revenue level or margin from an independent source appears in the reviewed sources, so a buyer weighing the company's staying power has only vendor statements and one analyst placement.
- No funding round after March 2021 appears in the reviewed sources and neither acquisition price is disclosed there, so the capital behind the company's expansion cannot be checked.
- Forrester named duplicate findings in 2024 when a scanned address and a hostname describe the same asset, a defect in the same family as the false positives its analyst says once made chief information security officers question the category.

### Problem & Market

SecurityScorecard sells a measurement of other organizations' security to the teams accountable for vendor risk. The company grades an organization from outside its network and packages those grades with questionnaire automation, vendor workflows and threat intelligence. Its own pages address chief information security officers, chief risk officers and third-party risk managers.

Forrester's senior analyst on this market gave BankInfoSecurity the buyer and the doubt in one 2024 sentence. Chief information security officers had questioned whether ratings platforms repaid the investment, he said, because of false positives and thin returns.

Regulation is the vendor's own account of why the problem is urgent now. Its trust centre records a compliance paper covering the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the European Union's NIS2 directive, New York's financial-services rules and other regimes. The reviewed sources carry no independent measurement of what third-party breaches cost the buyers being sold to, so the figure the vendor's page cites, an average vendor compromise of $4.9 million, is what sizes the problem. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities

SecurityScorecard collects the signals behind its grade itself. Its trust page states the company collects and owns 99 percent of its own data, monitors signals through sensors on three continents, and runs its own network of sinkholes and honeypots. The platform page puts the malware sinkhole at more than two billion requests a day and says the scanner covers the public internet daily, including active IPv6 space.

A grade decomposes into ten factor categories that include DNS health, IP reputation and patching cadence. The company says it built its breach-prediction algorithm by using large language models to analyse the root causes of 15,000 historical breaches. It also names Nmap, an open-source scanner, as one component of its own scanning framework, and says the collected data is enriched with commercial and open-source intelligence.

The other products wrap workflow around the grade. TITAN Assess drafts questionnaire answers with generative AI and offers an opt-in review of them by people the company calls certified experts. TITAN Secure prioritises vendor exposures and guides breach triage. TITAN MAX is the managed service the company contrasts with a subscription the buyer manages, and it says certified partners primarily deliver it. Forrester criticised the platform in 2024 for lacking AI tools to parse uploaded evidence documents and for duplicate findings when a scanned address and a hostname describe the same asset. Kassoumeh told the same publication that the company's control over its data collection ensures accurate and nonredundant reporting. \[[s6](#profile-analysis-sources), [s8](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s12](#profile-analysis-sources), [s21](#profile-analysis-sources), [s11](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitive Positioning

Forrester's 2024 evaluation of security-ratings platforms put SecurityScorecard first for the strength of its current offering, by a margin BankInfoSecurity reported had narrowed. Bitsight held second on that axis and took the top strategy score. Black Kite moved ahead of Panorays for third.

The same evaluation covered nine other vendors. It named Black Kite, RiskRecon, BlueVoyant and Recorded Future as strong performers, UpGuard and Prevalent as contenders, and ISS Corporate Solutions as a challenger. Forrester's analyst said in 2024 that the platforms in that market had capitalised on advances in open-source and commercial data availability to improve how they validate findings, which is a statement about the whole field rather than about any one vendor's collection.

Forrester published a successor evaluation in April 2026. Bitsight announced that it was named a Leader in that edition, with the top score in the current-offering category and the highest possible scores across eleven criteria. SecurityScorecard's own announcement of a Leader placement is the 2024 one, and the reviewed record does not show where the company placed in the 2026 edition.

Forrester's analyst expects the category to stop standing alone in 2026. Writing alongside the 2026 evaluation, he said ratings will not fade away overnight but their influence will diminish as the intelligence that drives risk reduction becomes the primary source of value, and he named third-party risk management as the dominant future use case. SecurityScorecard has moved the same way by acquisition, buying the questionnaire vendor HyperComply in 2025 and the British scanning startup Driftnet in 2026. \[[s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s22](#profile-analysis-sources), [s23](#profile-analysis-sources), [s24](#profile-analysis-sources), [s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s13](#profile-analysis-sources), [s9](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Go-to-Market & Traction

SecurityScorecard names references on its own pages. Its site attaches quotes to a third-party risk manager at Aflac, a chief information security officer at Children's Minnesota and a chief information security officer at Horizon Media. A 2021 SiliconANGLE report relays the company's own account naming Nokia, Liberty Mutual and AXA.

What the outside record does not carry is money. No revenue level or margin from an independent source appears in the reviewed sources, and the scale figures in them are the company's own, including a 61 percent rise in fourth-quarter revenue on an undisclosed base that SiliconANGLE reported in 2021. A buyer sizing the company therefore has the 2024 Forrester placement and little else that a third party stands behind.

A free tier runs alongside the paid platform. The trust page states that any organization can access and improve its own security rating at no cost, and the home page offers a 14-day trial of the paid platform. Every rated company is therefore a potential user before it is a customer. \[[s1](#profile-analysis-sources), [s2](#profile-analysis-sources), [s5](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Team & Credibility

Both founders still hold executive roles. Aleksandr Yampolskiy is chief executive and co-founder, and Sam Kassoumeh is co-founder and head of product. A Form D filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission signed in December 2013, covering a Series Seed round, names Yampolskiy. The founding year is unsettled in the record: SiliconANGLE says 2013 and the company's own leadership page dates its inception to 2014.

The bench mixes long tenure with acquired founders. The leadership page lists Chris Fritz as chief financial officer and credits him with 25 years of finance leadership including a decade at Tenable, where the same page says he helped scale revenue from $80 million to more than $900 million and led the initial public offering. Amar Chahal and Cody Wright, who co-founded HyperComply, now hold the general-manager role for managed services and the technology-chief role for assessments.

No prior exit by either founder appears in the reviewed sources. BankInfoSecurity quotes Kassoumeh on how the company controls its own data collection. \[[s3](#profile-analysis-sources), [s17](#profile-analysis-sources), [s16](#profile-analysis-sources), [s14](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Trust Readiness

SecurityScorecard publishes a trust centre with a document set. It records a SOC 2 Type II report, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP under the security team's remit, a HackerOne bug bounty, a GovRAMP Ready designation and a TX-RAMP provisional certification. The Cloud Security Alliance's STAR Registry has listed the company since 30 January 2023 on a self-assessment questionnaire.

The federal record is thinner than the labels suggest. The FedRAMP Marketplace lists SecurityScorecard Security Ratings at Legacy FedRAMP Ready, Class C Moderate, with no authority-to-operate or authority-to-use letters recorded. The marketplace's own note describes that status as earned under the legacy process, with the offering possibly now pursuing a certification.

Any rated organization can inspect and improve its own grade for free, and the company publishes a scoring-methodology paper. SecurityScorecard qualifies its ownership claim on that same page, saying the collected data is enriched with commercial and open-source intelligence. \[[s7](#profile-analysis-sources), [s19](#profile-analysis-sources), [s18](#profile-analysis-sources), [s6](#profile-analysis-sources)\]

### Competitors

| Company | Relationship | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bitsight | competes with | Forrester's 2024 evaluation of security-ratings platforms ranked it second on current offering and first on strategy. |
| Panorays | competes with | Forrester's 2024 evaluation of security-ratings platforms assessed it in the same market, behind Black Kite on current offering. |
| Black Kite | competes with | Forrester's 2024 evaluation of security-ratings platforms named it a strong performer in the same market. |
| RiskRecon | competes with | Forrester's 2024 evaluation of security-ratings platforms named it a strong performer in the same market. |
| UpGuard | competes with | Forrester's 2024 evaluation of security-ratings platforms named it a contender in the same market. |
| Safe Security | competes with | BankInfoSecurity described it as a cyber risk management rival when SecurityScorecard sued it in 2024. |

## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Defensible (15/21)**

Band guidance: press the advantage. Analyzed 2026-08-20. Scope: whole company.

SecurityScorecard collects most of its own signals rather than licensing them. The company says it collects and owns 99 percent of its own data and operates a system it says detects more than two billion malware requests a day. It also says the result is enriched with commercial and open-source intelligence. That apparatus is reproducible by a funded rival: nine other vendors sat in the same 2024 Forrester review of this market. No compliance credential in the cited record blocks a replacement, since the federal marketplace lists the ratings product at Legacy FedRAMP Ready with no authority-to-operate letter recorded. The population the company reports monitoring, 12 million companies, is the head start here rather than a settled lead.

| Dimension | Score | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 2/3 | SecurityScorecard sells TITAN MAX as a managed service that operates a vendor risk operations centre and works directly with vendors, and offers opt-in expert review of AI-drafted questionnaire answers, so code and expertise blend, with the bound that the company says certified partners primarily deliver that service. \[[s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 | A customer adds monitored vendors and routes its questionnaire workflow through the platform, which is the integration friction the middle rung names, and the cited record does not size the migration. \[[s20](#deep-dive-sources), [s21](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR policies and a Cloud Security Alliance listing at its self-assessment level are the entry costs of enterprise selling. The federal credential is a readiness step rather than an authorization, since the FedRAMP Marketplace lists the ratings product at Legacy FedRAMP Ready with zero authority-to-operate or authority-to-use letters recorded, and the trust centre's other government entries, a GovRAMP Ready designation and a TX-RAMP provisional certification, are not shown in the cited record to gate a replacement of this product. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s19](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 | Scanning 4.1 billion IPs and domains, covering the public internet daily including active IPv6 space, staffing the attribution and threat intelligence teams the company says source almost all of its data, running a sensor network the company says spans three continents alongside its sinkholes and honeypots, and developing breach prediction by using large language models to analyse the root causes of 15,000 historical breaches is real-time and machine-learning work built over years. \[[s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Buyer Profile | 3/3 | The evidenced buyers are regulated enterprises and their security functions: a named insurer and a children's hospital speak on the vendor's pages, and a 2021 SiliconANGLE report relays the company's own account of pharmaceutical, payment-processing and insurance customers alongside Nokia, Liberty Mutual and AXA. That is the regulated-enterprise class the top rung describes. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Layer | 2/3 | The platform grades an organization's ecosystem and integrates with the governance tools a customer already runs, naming ServiceNow and OneTrust, so it is a platform with application features rather than infrastructure other companies' products depend on. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s21](#deep-dive-sources)\] |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 2/3 | Two asset kinds are evidenced rather than inferred: a patent notice listing granted U.S. patents against the ratings and threat-reconnaissance products, and a vendor-operated sinkhole and honeypot sensor network the company names as the source it accumulates from and says it owns. The cited record sizes the collection operation rather than the corpus it retains, does not show that corpus beyond a funded rival's reach, and carries the vendor's own statement that the data is enriched with commercial and open-source intelligence. \[[s4](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\] |

### Strategic Market Segmentation

The buyer is the security or vendor-risk function, and the company names the roles it sells to. Its pages address chief information security officers, chief risk officers and third-party risk managers, and its published references carry those exact titles at Aflac, Children's Minnesota and Horizon Media.

An independent source puts the same buyer at the centre. Forrester's senior analyst on this market told BankInfoSecurity in 2024 that chief information security officers had questioned whether ratings platforms repaid the investment, which puts chief information security officers among the people weighing this spend.

Sector reach is broad rather than narrow. A 2021 SiliconANGLE report relays the company's own account naming Nokia, Liberty Mutual and AXA, and the company's published references since then span an insurer, a children's hospital and a media agency. Nothing in the reviewed sources shows the buyer concentrated in one regulated vertical. \[[s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s2](#deep-dive-sources), [s5](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Capabilities & AI Advantages

The differentiating work is collection rather than presentation. The trust page states that SecurityScorecard collects and owns 99 percent of its own data, monitors signals through sensors on three continents, and runs its own network of sinkholes and honeypots. The platform page puts the malware sinkhole at more than two billion requests a day and says the scanner covers the public internet daily, including active IPv6 space.

AI appears as a method at two places in the product. The company says it built its breach-prediction algorithm by using large language models to analyse the root causes of 15,000 historical breaches, and TITAN Assess drafts questionnaire responses with generative AI, with an opt-in review of those responses by people it calls certified experts.

SecurityScorecard qualifies that ownership claim on the same pages. It names Nmap, an open-source scanner, as one component of its scanning framework and says the collected data is enriched with commercial and open-source intelligence. Forrester's analyst said in 2024 that the platforms in that market had capitalised on advances in open-source and commercial data availability to improve how they validate findings. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Sales Engagement & Go-to-Market

The motion starts with a free grade and climbs to a managed service. The trust page states that any organization can access and improve its own security rating at no cost, and the home page offers a 14-day trial of the paid platform. TITAN MAX is the far end of that range, a managed service the company says certified partners primarily deliver.

Acquisition widened what the motion has to sell. SecurityScorecard bought the questionnaire vendor HyperComply in September 2025 and the British internet-scanning startup Driftnet in May 2026, which SecurityWeek reported was for an undisclosed sum and aimed at the newly launched TITAN AI engine. Both purchases moved the company from grading toward the workflows and the raw collection around the grade.

What the go-to-market record does not include is money. No revenue level or margin from an independent source appears in the reviewed sources, and the growth figures in them are the company's own, so a buyer sizing the business has the 2024 Forrester placement and little else a third party stands behind. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s13](#deep-dive-sources), [s9](#deep-dive-sources), [s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Pricing Model

Pricing is published as packaging rather than as numbers. The reviewed sources show a free tier for an organization's own grade, a 14-day trial of the paid platform, and a managed service whose page asks a buyer to contact the sales team.

The free tier does real work in the sales motion. Because any rated organization can claim and improve its own grade at no cost, an organization can be rated before it has any commercial relationship with the company.

No list price for the paid platform appears in the reviewed sources, so the reviewed record gives a buyer no way to compare cost against the rivals Forrester assessed in 2024 short of going through sales. \[[s6](#deep-dive-sources), [s1](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Product Delivery & Operations

Delivery blends software with a service other people mostly staff. The company says TITAN MAX operates a vendor risk operations centre and works directly with vendors to resolve issues, and its own answer to who delivers it is that certified partners primarily do. TITAN Assess offers an opt-in review of AI-drafted questionnaire responses by people the company calls certified experts.

The other products are software the customer runs, and the company draws that line itself when it contrasts a standard subscription the buyer manages with the managed service. TITAN Watch monitors an organization and its vendors continuously and handles questionnaires, and TITAN Secure guides breach triage so a customer can work out its exposure during an incident and record what it did.

Operational quality is where the one independent assessment found fault. Forrester criticised the platform in 2024 for lacking AI tools to parse uploaded evidence documents and for duplicate findings when a scanned address and a hostname describe the same asset. Kassoumeh told the same publication that the company's control over its data collection ensures accurate and nonredundant reporting. \[[s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s12](#deep-dive-sources), [s20](#deep-dive-sources), [s21](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Earning Customers' Trust

The trust centre names a set of policy and audit documents. It records a SOC 2 Type II report, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP under the security team's remit, a HackerOne bug bounty, a GovRAMP Ready designation and a TX-RAMP provisional certification. The Cloud Security Alliance's STAR Registry has listed the company since 30 January 2023 at the level where organizations submit a self-assessment.

The federal position is a readiness step rather than an authorization. The FedRAMP Marketplace lists SecurityScorecard Security Ratings at Legacy FedRAMP Ready, Class C Moderate, with no authority-to-operate or authority-to-use letters recorded, and the marketplace's own note describes that status as earned under the legacy process.

The company publishes a scoring-methodology paper, lets any rated organization access and improve its grade for free, and says any company can validate its findings and its address attributions. It qualifies its ownership claim on that same page, saying the collected data is enriched with commercial and open-source intelligence. \[[s7](#deep-dive-sources), [s19](#deep-dive-sources), [s18](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Platform Strategy & Ecosystem Positioning

SecurityScorecard says TITAN AI integrates with the governance tools a customer already runs, naming ServiceNow and OneTrust, and describes TITAN Secure as a system of record that can integrate with ServiceNow, OneTrust and ProcessUnity. It joins the governance stack a customer already runs rather than serving as a layer beneath it.

Certified partners carry the service end. SecurityScorecard's own answer to who delivers its managed offering is that certified partners primarily do, and a buyer picks the partner whose services suit its programme.

The widest surface is the free grade. Any organization can access and improve its own security rating at no cost, so a rated company meets the product before it buys anything, and nothing in the reviewed sources shows another company's product depending on SecurityScorecard as infrastructure. \[[s8](#deep-dive-sources), [s21](#deep-dive-sources), [s11](#deep-dive-sources), [s6](#deep-dive-sources)\]

### Team & Execution Capability

Both founders still hold executive roles. Aleksandr Yampolskiy is chief executive and co-founder and Sam Kassoumeh is co-founder and head of product, and a Form D filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission signed in December 2013, covering a Series Seed round, names Yampolskiy. The founding year is unsettled in the record: SiliconANGLE says the company was founded in 2013 and the company's own leadership page dates its inception to 2014.

The senior bench mixes long tenure with acquired founders. The leadership page lists Chris Fritz as chief financial officer and credits him with 25 years of finance leadership including a decade at Tenable, where the same page says he helped scale revenue from $80 million to more than $900 million and led the initial public offering. Amar Chahal and Cody Wright, who co-founded HyperComply, now hold the general-manager role for managed services and the technology-chief role for assessments.

No prior exit by either founder appears in the reviewed sources. BankInfoSecurity quotes Kassoumeh on the company's control of its own data collection. \[[s3](#deep-dive-sources), [s17](#deep-dive-sources), [s16](#deep-dive-sources), [s14](#deep-dive-sources)\]

## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [SecurityScorecard: homepage](https://securityscorecard.com/) | official | 2026-08-20 |
| f2 | [SiliconANGLE: Security ratings firm SecurityScorecard raises $180M for global expansion](https://siliconangle.com/2021/03/18/security-ratings-firm-securityscorecard-raises-180m-global-expansion/) | press | 2026-08-20 |
| f3 | [SecurityScorecard: contact page](https://securityscorecard.com/company/contact-us/) | official | 2026-08-20 |
| f4 | [SecurityScorecard: trust and transparency page](https://securityscorecard.com/trust/) | official | 2026-08-20 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

Cited from the Market Readiness section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [SecurityScorecard: home page](https://securityscorecard.com/) “A swarm of agents. An army of risk engineers. One threat-informed TPRM platform to stop risk before it spreads across your supply chain.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s2 | [SecurityScorecard: company page](https://securityscorecard.com/company/) “organizations monitored and rated giving our customer’s deeper visibility into their risk.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s3 | [SecurityScorecard: leadership page](https://securityscorecard.com/company/leadership/) “Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SecurityScorecard, is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s4 | [SecurityScorecard: patent marking notice](https://securityscorecard.com/patents/) “Security Ratings U.S. Patent No. 9,501,647; U.S. Patent No. 10,498,756; D740,847; D771,695; D759,084; D772,276; D776,153; D819,687; U.S. Patent No. 10,848,517.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s5 | [SecurityScorecard: security ratings use-case page](https://securityscorecard.com/solutions/use-cases/security-ratings/) “TITAN AI analyzes billions of data points daily and sinkholing 2B+ malware requests per day to provide a transparent, outside-in view of security posture that correlates directly to breach likelihood.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s6 | [SecurityScorecard: trust and transparency page](https://securityscorecard.com/trust/) “We collect and own 99% of our own data.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s7 | [SecurityScorecard: trust centre, rendered](https://trustcenter.securityscorecard.com/) “Led by CISO Steve Cobb, our cross-functional security team manages policy, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP), audits, incident response, and HackerOne bug bounty across all operations.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s8 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN AI platform overview page](https://securityscorecard.com/platform/) “We operate the world’s largest malware DNS sinkhole, detecting 2B+ daily requests” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s9 | [SecurityScorecard: press release on the Driftnet acquisition](https://securityscorecard.com/company/press/securityscorecard-acquires-driftnet-to-power-real-time-threat-informed-third-party-risk-management/) “Using the Driftnet engine, SecurityScorecard’s threat intelligence team recently identified more than 816,000 internet-exposed AI OpenClaw agent deployments, many already correlated with prior breaches.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s10 | [SecurityScorecard: contact page](https://securityscorecard.com/company/contact-us/) “1140 Avenue of the Americas, 19th Floor” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s11 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN MAX product page](https://securityscorecard.com/product/titan-max/) “TITAN MAX enables compliance and reduces cyber risk. Built on SecurityScorecard and delivered by experts, TITAN MAX advances your cyber TRPM program maturity without dedicated in-house resources” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s12 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN Assess product page](https://securityscorecard.com/product/titan-assess/) “Every AI-generated response is backed by certified experts to ensure 92% accuracy and reliability.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s13 | [SecurityWeek: cybersecurity M and A roundup for May 2026](https://www.securityweek.com/cybersecurity-ma-roundup-26-deals-announced-in-may-2026/) “Cybersecurity ratings firm SecurityScorecard has completed the acquisition of British internet scanning and threat intelligence startup Driftnet for an undisclosed sum.” | press | 2026-08-20 |
| s14 | [BankInfoSecurity: report on the Forrester cybersecurity risk ratings evaluation](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/bitsight-securityscorecard-panorays-lead-risk-ratings-tech-a-25326) “SecurityScorecard is holding steady atop Forrester's evaluation for the strength of its current offering, albeit by a much smaller margin. Bitsight once again holds second place, and Black Kite has jumped ahead of Panorays for third place.” | press | 2026-08-20 |
| s15 | [BankInfoSecurity: report on the SecurityScorecard trade-secrets suit against Safe Security](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/securityscorecard-accuses-safe-security-trade-secret-theft-a-25423) “The New York-based cyber risk ratings vendor alleged that ex-employee Polyakova stole confidential information about the company's customers and prospects before leaving last month to join Silicon Valley-based Safe Security as a sales vice president.” | press | 2026-08-20 |
| s16 | [SiliconANGLE: report on the SecurityScorecard Series E round](https://siliconangle.com/2021/03/18/security-ratings-firm-securityscorecard-raises-180m-global-expansion/) “Founded in 2013, SecurityScorecard offers ratings of security risks for organizations.” | press | 2026-08-20 |
| s17 | [SEC EDGAR: SecurityScorecard, Inc. Form D notice of exempt offering](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594266/000159426613000001/primary_doc.xml) “This filing covers the purchase and sale of Series Seed Preferred Stock and the Common Stock issueable upon conversion of such Preferred Stock.” | regulatory | 2026-08-20 |
| s18 | [FedRAMP Marketplace: SecurityScorecard Security Ratings listing](https://www.fedramp.gov/marketplace/products/FR2221161553/) “Legacy FedRAMP Ready” | regulatory | 2026-08-20 |
| s19 | [Cloud Security Alliance: STAR Registry listing for SecurityScorecard](https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/star/registry/securityscorecard) “Listed Since: 2023-01-30” | research | 2026-08-20 |
| s20 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN Watch product page](https://securityscorecard.com/product/titan-watch/) “TITAN Watch combines world-class threat data, AI-automation, and continuous monitoring of your entire supply chain so you get a clear view of security risks and respond to third-party threats quickly.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s21 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN Secure product page](https://securityscorecard.com/product/titan-secure/) “Transform how your team identifies, prioritizes, and acts on real-world cyber threats across your entire vendor ecosystem with a unified, continuous workflow.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s22 | [Forrester: analyst blog on the Q2 2026 cybersecurity risk ratings evaluation](https://www.forrester.com/blogs/cyber-risk-ratings-fade-out-actionable-intelligence-takes-the-spotlight/) “With the publication of The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2026 this week, that limitation became indisputably clear.” | research | 2026-08-20 |
| s23 | [PR Newswire: Bitsight announcement of its Q2 2026 Forrester Wave placement](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitsight-named-a-leader-in-cybersecurity-risk-ratings-evaluation-praised-by-customers-for-the-utility-of-its-data-302738389.html) “Bitsight , the global leader in cyber risk intelligence, today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2026 , receiving the highest possible scores across 11 criteria, the most of all vendors evaluated.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s24 | [SecurityScorecard: blog announcing its Q2 2024 Forrester Wave placement](https://securityscorecard.com/blog/securityscorecard-named-a-leader-in-the-forrester-wave-for-cybersecurity-risk-ratings/) “Today, we’re proud to announce that Forrester has named SecurityScorecard a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2024.” | official | 2026-08-20 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

Cited from the Strategy Deep Dive section.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [SecurityScorecard: home page](https://securityscorecard.com/) “A swarm of agents. An army of risk engineers. One threat-informed TPRM platform to stop risk before it spreads across your supply chain.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s2 | [SecurityScorecard: company page](https://securityscorecard.com/company/) “organizations monitored and rated giving our customer’s deeper visibility into their risk.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s3 | [SecurityScorecard: leadership page](https://securityscorecard.com/company/leadership/) “Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SecurityScorecard, is a globally recognized cybersecurity innovator, leader, and expert.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s4 | [SecurityScorecard: patent marking notice](https://securityscorecard.com/patents/) “Security Ratings U.S. Patent No. 9,501,647; U.S. Patent No. 10,498,756; D740,847; D771,695; D759,084; D772,276; D776,153; D819,687; U.S. Patent No. 10,848,517.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s5 | [SecurityScorecard: security ratings use-case page](https://securityscorecard.com/solutions/use-cases/security-ratings/) “TITAN AI analyzes billions of data points daily and sinkholing 2B+ malware requests per day to provide a transparent, outside-in view of security posture that correlates directly to breach likelihood.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s6 | [SecurityScorecard: trust and transparency page](https://securityscorecard.com/trust/) “We collect and own 99% of our own data.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s7 | [SecurityScorecard: trust centre, rendered](https://trustcenter.securityscorecard.com/) “Led by CISO Steve Cobb, our cross-functional security team manages policy, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP), audits, incident response, and HackerOne bug bounty across all operations.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s8 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN AI platform overview page](https://securityscorecard.com/platform/) “We operate the world’s largest malware DNS sinkhole, detecting 2B+ daily requests” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s9 | [SecurityScorecard: press release on the Driftnet acquisition](https://securityscorecard.com/company/press/securityscorecard-acquires-driftnet-to-power-real-time-threat-informed-third-party-risk-management/) “Using the Driftnet engine, SecurityScorecard’s threat intelligence team recently identified more than 816,000 internet-exposed AI OpenClaw agent deployments, many already correlated with prior breaches.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s10 | [SecurityScorecard: contact page](https://securityscorecard.com/company/contact-us/) “1140 Avenue of the Americas, 19th Floor” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s11 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN MAX product page](https://securityscorecard.com/product/titan-max/) “TITAN MAX enables compliance and reduces cyber risk. Built on SecurityScorecard and delivered by experts, TITAN MAX advances your cyber TRPM program maturity without dedicated in-house resources” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s12 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN Assess product page](https://securityscorecard.com/product/titan-assess/) “Every AI-generated response is backed by certified experts to ensure 92% accuracy and reliability.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s13 | [SecurityWeek: cybersecurity M and A roundup for May 2026](https://www.securityweek.com/cybersecurity-ma-roundup-26-deals-announced-in-may-2026/) “Cybersecurity ratings firm SecurityScorecard has completed the acquisition of British internet scanning and threat intelligence startup Driftnet for an undisclosed sum.” | press | 2026-08-20 |
| s14 | [BankInfoSecurity: report on the Forrester cybersecurity risk ratings evaluation](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/bitsight-securityscorecard-panorays-lead-risk-ratings-tech-a-25326) “SecurityScorecard is holding steady atop Forrester's evaluation for the strength of its current offering, albeit by a much smaller margin. Bitsight once again holds second place, and Black Kite has jumped ahead of Panorays for third place.” | press | 2026-08-20 |
| s15 | [BankInfoSecurity: report on the SecurityScorecard trade-secrets suit against Safe Security](https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/securityscorecard-accuses-safe-security-trade-secret-theft-a-25423) “The New York-based cyber risk ratings vendor alleged that ex-employee Polyakova stole confidential information about the company's customers and prospects before leaving last month to join Silicon Valley-based Safe Security as a sales vice president.” | press | 2026-08-20 |
| s16 | [SiliconANGLE: report on the SecurityScorecard Series E round](https://siliconangle.com/2021/03/18/security-ratings-firm-securityscorecard-raises-180m-global-expansion/) “Founded in 2013, SecurityScorecard offers ratings of security risks for organizations.” | press | 2026-08-20 |
| s17 | [SEC EDGAR: SecurityScorecard, Inc. Form D notice of exempt offering](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1594266/000159426613000001/primary_doc.xml) “This filing covers the purchase and sale of Series Seed Preferred Stock and the Common Stock issueable upon conversion of such Preferred Stock.” | regulatory | 2026-08-20 |
| s18 | [FedRAMP Marketplace: SecurityScorecard Security Ratings listing](https://www.fedramp.gov/marketplace/products/FR2221161553/) “Legacy FedRAMP Ready” | regulatory | 2026-08-20 |
| s19 | [Cloud Security Alliance: STAR Registry listing for SecurityScorecard](https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/star/registry/securityscorecard) “Listed Since: 2023-01-30” | research | 2026-08-20 |
| s20 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN Watch product page](https://securityscorecard.com/product/titan-watch/) “TITAN Watch combines world-class threat data, AI-automation, and continuous monitoring of your entire supply chain so you get a clear view of security risks and respond to third-party threats quickly.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s21 | [SecurityScorecard: TITAN Secure product page](https://securityscorecard.com/product/titan-secure/) “Transform how your team identifies, prioritizes, and acts on real-world cyber threats across your entire vendor ecosystem with a unified, continuous workflow.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s22 | [Forrester: analyst blog on the Q2 2026 cybersecurity risk ratings evaluation](https://www.forrester.com/blogs/cyber-risk-ratings-fade-out-actionable-intelligence-takes-the-spotlight/) “With the publication of The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2026 this week, that limitation became indisputably clear.” | research | 2026-08-20 |
| s23 | [PR Newswire: Bitsight announcement of its Q2 2026 Forrester Wave placement](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bitsight-named-a-leader-in-cybersecurity-risk-ratings-evaluation-praised-by-customers-for-the-utility-of-its-data-302738389.html) “Bitsight , the global leader in cyber risk intelligence, today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2026 , receiving the highest possible scores across 11 criteria, the most of all vendors evaluated.” | official | 2026-08-20 |
| s24 | [SecurityScorecard: blog announcing its Q2 2024 Forrester Wave placement](https://securityscorecard.com/blog/securityscorecard-named-a-leader-in-the-forrester-wave-for-cybersecurity-risk-ratings/) “Today, we’re proud to announce that Forrester has named SecurityScorecard a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2024.” | official | 2026-08-20 |

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