SecurityScorecard grades vendors from the outside — a letter grade built from what scans can see. Polestead classifies them from the inside — by what each vendor holds of yours. Different questions, different answers.
You want continuous external monitoring of vendor cyber posture as a standalone signal, and a widely recognized ratings benchmark your board already knows.
Your risk is defined by what vendors hold of yours — not what they show the internet — and your data can't live in someone else's jurisdiction. You can still bring external ratings in as evidence.
SecurityScorecard grades vendors from external scans; Polestead classifies them by your own exposure across six access vectors, with external signals as optional evidence.
Yes. Bring an external scanning license and attach its findings as evidence, scoped by tier.
On-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant EU cloud, or managed SaaS — your choice, unlike US-headquartered multi-tenant ratings platforms.