Case Study: Riverside County gains real-time third-party risk visibility with UpGuard

How Riverside County’s security leaders gained full visibility into third-party risk, improved vendor accountability, and streamlined decision-making with UpGuard

The County of Riverside, a major government entity, faced significant challenges in managing third-party cyber risk across its 5,000 vendors. Their security leaders, including CISO Anthony Chogyoji, were burdened by an inefficient, manual process that lacked real-time visibility and left them exposed to vendor-related security incidents. To address this, they turned to UpGuard for a vendor risk management solution.

UpGuard provided the County with a streamlined, data-driven platform for continuous vendor monitoring and instant risk scoring. The solution enabled the security team to assess vendors in minutes instead of days, hold vendors accountable for their security posture, and proactively respond to potential breaches. This transformed their security function from a perceived bottleneck into an enabler, providing credible, objective data to justify decisions and significantly improving their overall risk management.

County of Riverside

Anthony Chogyoji

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)