About
UpGuard is one of the more successful Australian-founded cybersecurity companies. Their AI-powered platform handles cyber risk posture management, monitoring an organisation's own security plus the security posture of every vendor in its supply chain, and surfacing the issues most likely to lead to a breach. Founded in 2012 by Mike Baukes and Alex Kondratiuk. The company has Sydney and Hobart offices and a US postal address, but the founders and core leadership remain Australian. The AI work is in the underlying scoring engine: feeding in millions of data points across an attack surface and identifying which configurations actually constitute material risk. UpGuard publishes a public security ratings dataset that has been cited in breach analysis news coverage globally. Suitable for Australian customers wanting cybersecurity tooling from a vendor that is AU-founded and has Australian-resident leadership, even though the company now operates as a global business.