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UpGuard

UpGuard is a cybersecurity platform that helps organizations manage and reduce their cyber risk. Its products cover third-party vendor risk management (Vendor Risk), attack surface management and external threat monitoring (Breach Risk), and AI-powered security questionnaire automation and trust center tooling (Trust Exchange). The UpGuard CyberRisk API exposes the platform programmatically — vendors and security ratings, risks and vulnerabilities, domains and IPs, data leak disclosures, identity breaches, typosquatting, questionnaires, subsidiaries, labels, notifications, and webhooks — authenticated with an API key from CyberRisk account settings.

agent native

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles UpGuard the way a machine reads it — 25 machine-readable artifacts across 18 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — UpGuard scores 55.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 75/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 55.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 75/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile UpGuard

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for UpGuard. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 18

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

UpGuard breaches API

The breaches API from UpGuard — 5 operation(s) for breaches.

UpGuard bulk API

The bulk API from UpGuard — 4 operation(s) for bulk.

UpGuard dataleaks API

The dataleaks API from UpGuard — 2 operation(s) for dataleaks.

UpGuard domains API

The domains API from UpGuard — 3 operation(s) for domains.

UpGuard ips API

The ips API from UpGuard — 4 operation(s) for ips.

UpGuard labels API

The labels API from UpGuard — 1 operation(s) for labels.

UpGuard notifications API

The notifications API from UpGuard — 1 operation(s) for notifications.

UpGuard organisation API

The organisation API from UpGuard — 1 operation(s) for organisation.

UpGuard reports API

The reports API from UpGuard — 3 operation(s) for reports.

UpGuard risks API

The risks API from UpGuard — 13 operation(s) for risks.

UpGuard subsidiaries API

The subsidiaries API from UpGuard — 8 operation(s) for subsidiaries.

UpGuard threatmonitoring API

The threatmonitoring API from UpGuard — 9 operation(s) for threatmonitoring.

UpGuard trust_exchange API

The trust_exchange API from UpGuard — 15 operation(s) for trust_exchange.

UpGuard typosquat API

The typosquat API from UpGuard — 2 operation(s) for typosquat.

UpGuard userrisk API

The userrisk API from UpGuard — 15 operation(s) for userrisk.

UpGuard vendors API

The vendors API from UpGuard — 32 operation(s) for vendors.

UpGuard vulnerabilities API

The vulnerabilities API from UpGuard — 2 operation(s) for vulnerabilities.

UpGuard webhooks API

The webhooks API from UpGuard — 3 operation(s) for webhooks.

Scroll within the panel for all 18 ·

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

upguard-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Upguard Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Upguard Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Upguard Vulnerability Disclosure

contact published

SECURITY

Upguard Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Upguard Agentic Access

133 operations · 37 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

133 operations · 37 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for UpGuard — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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