UpGuard pairs external scans with questionnaires — but the scan still leads and your context adjusts it. Polestead runs the other way: your exposure leads, and everything external is evidence.
You want an approachable SaaS combining attack-surface monitoring and questionnaires for a moderate vendor portfolio, and data residency isn't a constraint.
You need whole-register classification driven by your own exposure, depth that follows tier automatically, and deployment your regulator can't argue with.
UpGuard leads with the external scan and layers questionnaires on top; Polestead leads with your exposure, and everything external is evidence inside it.
Yes. Facilities, embedded personnel, and design custody are first-class vectors, per NIST’s multidimensional view of supply-chain risk.
On-premises, air-gapped, single-tenant EU cloud, or managed SaaS.