UpGuard refreshes monday.com vendor-risk snapshot, publishes numeric security rating

UpGuard updated its continuous vendor-security assessment for monday.com on February 25, 2026, publishing an externally visible vendor-risk snapshot that includes a numeric security rating, recent findings about exposed assets, and a vendor-risk summary intended for customers and partners. The Original Report and UpGuard documentation confirm those three deliverables were included in the Feb. 25 update, though the material published does not include the numeric value or technical details of the exposed assets.

UpGuard’s product documentation describes how those vendor snapshots are produced and shared. The Vendor Report feature “generates a downloadable PDF or Word document that summarizes the security posture of any of your monitored vendors,” and the output is “designed to be shared with internal and external stakeholders who are not UpGuard users, such as a colleague, board member or employees of the associated vendor.” UpGuard notes that “the language is simple, easy-to-understand, and suitable for non-technical audiences,” and that “before you can run a report, you need to be monitoring the vendor.”

The platform supports multiple report formats that map to different review needs. The Vendor Summary Report “provides a high-level overview of a vendor's security posture including category score breakdowns and overall risk counts.” The Vendor Detailed Report “includes more detail including list of risks and remediation recommendations and historical risk rating by category.” The Vendor Risk Assessment Report “presents the results of a point-in-time risk assessment conducted on the UpGuard platform based on the data sources and risk assessment commentary included in that risk assessment.” UpGuard also allows users to “customize and generate” reports to tailor content for specific stakeholders.

UpGuard documentation outlines typical profile components and assessment inputs that customers can expect in a snapshot for a monitored vendor such as monday.com. Those components include “the vendor’s history, business model, service level agreements (SLAs), and market gauge to assess reliability,” an “outline of a vendor’s compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards, such as GDPR and HIPAA,” the vendor's defenses against cyber threats like “firewalls, encryption,” and “how the vendor handles data security and the privacy practices in place to prevent a cyber attack.” The help content also states that “each category outlines individual risks, domains impacted, and provides remediation advice. The most severe risks in each category appear first,” and that UpGuard combines “real-time threat signals with traditional risk management techniques.”

UpGuard’s vendor-governance guidance frames why a refreshed snapshot matters to customers and partners. The guidance instructs users to “Run a full assessment before onboarding any vendor that will access sensitive data, core systems, or critical infrastructure,” to treat lower-tier vendors with a “basic security and compliance questionnaire,” and to “Perform a comprehensive assessment of critical vendors at least every six months.” It also recommends using the renewal window to “reassess each vendor’s overall risk profile and update their risk tiering if necessary.”

For industry context, competing products such as SecurityScorecard emphasize continuous monitoring and an A-to-F letter grade with “10 risk factor groups,” plus “Automated Questionnaires” and integrations like “ServiceNow.” That comparison is intended to situate UpGuard’s action in the vendor-rating market, not to imply UpGuard uses the same grading mechanics.

Key specifics remain unpublished in the available material: the actual numeric security rating assigned to monday.com on Feb. 25, 2026, and any technical details or remediation status for the “recent findings about exposed assets.” There are no quotes from UpGuard or monday.com in the provided documents, and the two methods referenced for generating a report are not specified. Without the numeric score and exposed-asset details, the operational impact on monday.com customers and partners cannot be fully assessed; the Feb. 25 snapshot does, however, make a shareable vendor-risk summary and a numeric rating visible as part of UpGuard’s standard reporting outputs.