Hi Joseph,
I'm not sure how to compare them because they assess different areas. Argos assesses financial risk and SecurityScorecard assesses cybersecurity. I probably prefer the SecurityScorecard because it goes really in depth, but the Argos report is pretty good also. SecurityScorecard grades based on network security, DNS health, patching cadence, endpoint security, IP reputation, application security, cubit score, hacker chatter, information leak, and social engineering. Argos looks at things such as consistency of payments, business health index, trends for the past 180 days, any litigation, press releases, and mergers and acquisitions.
Erica Lane, CompTIA Sec+ Certification | Information Security Analyst II
City Bank
Member FDIC | Equal Housing Lender
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Original Message:
Sent: 10/8/2020 9:35:00 PM
From: Joseph Ciccone
Subject: RE: Vendor News Monitoring
What do you think of SecurityScorecard and ArgosRisk? I've typically used Google Alerts but recently saw demos of both SS and AR. Nice products, but I'm curious to hear from someone who's used them. Do you find one is better than the other?
Original Message:
Sent: 10-07-2020 02:16 PM
From: Erica Lane
Subject: Vendor News Monitoring
We recently started using Google Alerts. We also use SecurityScorecard and Argos Risk. We have all of these set up to email us when significant changes or events occur.
To set up Google alerts, visit google.com/alerts. You will have to sign in with a gmail account. I created the alerts with a gmail account I use only for this purpose. I then added my work email address as the Deliver to address. Alerts are very easy to set up but it can be time consuming if you want to setup alerts for all of your vendors at once. You'll have to be careful about the wording of your alert to avoid receiving too many useless emails.
Erica Lane, CompTIA Sec+ Certification | Information Security Analyst II
Original Message:
Sent: 10/7/2020 2:12:00 PM
From: Mark Ewert
Subject: RE: Vendor News Monitoring
Does anyone use google alerts? If you do, will you please share with me how you set them up?
Original Message:
Sent: 10-07-2020 01:55 PM
From: Cameron Banks
Subject: Vendor News Monitoring
We don't have any subscriptions for monitoring vendors' negative news or whether they're in any regulatory trouble, so we generally do this manually during review time for critical and high-risk vendors only... While I know this isn't often enough, it is also a time-consuming task. Any tips or tricks in this area? Is anyone using a specific monitoring timeline?