Choosing the Best Tool for Cybersecurity Audits | UpGuard

## Executive Summary This article provides an overview of cybersecurity audits—defining their purpose, contrasting audits with assessments, describing a three-step audit process (determine scope, threat detection, plan response), listing types of auditing tools, and highlighting the top three features to seek (comprehensive vulnerability detection, compliance management and reporting, and real-time alerting); it also includes vendor-focused examples and promotes UpGuard Breach Risk as a recommended external attack surface management solution.