Key Capabilities / Features

Upfort’s proprietary security suite – Upfort Shield – delivers turnkey protection that mitigates cyber risk. It offers multiple layers of protection with AI-powered email security, browser firewall, attack surface management, and continuous training and testing.

Upfort’s AI pinpoints threats missed by other security solutions and offers complementary protection without conflicts. Upfort Shield provides holistic visibility into an organization’s human and digital attack surface, leveraging intelligent automation for proactive mitigation.

Powered by a dataset of over $100,000,000 worth of financial losses from cyber attacks, Upfort reduces alert fatigue and highlights critical issues that correlate with breaches at similar organizations.

Moreover, Upfort Shield offers ready access to security experts. Whether an organization is interested in strategic advice or tactical help, Upfort’s security team is just a chat, email, or call away.

Reflecting its relentless commitment to innovation and growth, Upfort recently debuted a series of product expansion updates, including an upgraded inbox defender – the email layer of Upfort’s award-winning security suite – and a new underwriter platform, or “workbench.”

With its expanded cyber capabilities, the inbox defender helps deliver enterprise-grade protections to organizations of all sizes – far surpassing off-the-shelf defenses of major email providers. Some of its key features include simple organization-wide implementation, deep attachment scanning, enhanced social engineering protections, and consolidated cyber intelligence.

Meanwhile, Upfort’s new AI-powered underwriting solution – or workbench – speeds up the submission-to-quote cycles for cyber coverage, while eliminating underwriting bottlenecks and lower loss ratios. This solution, which is focused on optimizing data collection and dynamic underwriting, easily locks into carriers’ underwriting tech stacks, automating broker-facing engagements and data gathering. Its main capabilities include automated cyber risk assessment that offers a real-time look at a company’s risk profile, an AI-powered underwriting engine that drives fast, consistent decision-making, and sales enablement tools that help brokers sell coverage.

How we are different

1. Instead of solely offering cybersecurity solutions or cyber insurance – like many other players in the space – Upfort does both in one comprehensive and cost-effective package.

2. At a time of skyrocketing rates and claims driven by ransomware, funds transfer fraud, and data breaches, Upfort has already helped deliver better outcomes for tens of thousands of organizations and over $100M of cyber insurance premium. A recent 18-month study of a top-tier cyber insurance program showed that policyholders who fully implemented Upfort Shield filed claims at 1/5th the rate of those who didn’t – all while not filing a single ransomware or wire transfer fraud claim, two of the predominant claim types. In addition, insurance carriers underwriting companies protected by Upfort Shield reported 84% better profitability (loss ratio improvement) when underwriting the same types of companies in terms of industries, revenue ranges, and controls. This has equipped Upfort to help deliver better coverage at more cost-effective rates.

3. In addition to more cost-effective coverage, Upfort Shield has helped to enhance cyber protection with a total cost of ownership that’s over 90% lower than traditional point solutions. If an organization were to try and assemble a comparable suite of tools from traditional vendors, it would cost approximately $172 per employee each year. For a 25-employee organization, Upfort’s cybersecurity and insurance package represents over $4,000 per year in savings in controls – in addition to better insurance terms.

It is indisputable that Upfort is boldly forging a new path in cyber protection – which is already yielding tangible, meaningful results.

For its remarkable promise – and progress – in accelerating the world’s journey toward cyber resilience, Upfort warrants your consideration as a winner of The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.