--- title: SecurityStudio Reviews meta_title: 'SecurityStudio Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 10 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SecurityStudio works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.8 review_count: 10 scale: '5' date_modified: '2025-10-31' parent_category: name: Risk Assessment url: https://www.g2.com/categories/risk-assessment --- # SecurityStudio Reviews **Vendor:** SecurityStudio **Category:** [Vendor Security and Privacy Assessment Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/vendor-security-and-privacy-assessment) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About SecurityStudio SecurityStudio offers solutions to secure information for your organization, your employees, your vendors and yourself. Modern products for risk, compliance and security leaders to better protect critical information. We offer security assessments for individuals, Teams and Organizations. From Government to Schools and Private companies. ## SecurityStudio Reviews ### 1. S2 is definitely a 10 out of 10 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rich E. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2020 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** I have reviewed over the past few years several NIST type assessment tools and just renewed Security Studio again. There are so many things that the S2 org tool does and does well. I love the deliverables! The deliverables are easy to create and are easy to present to other non-technical shareholders to get that “buy in” when we prioritize our goals for infosec. The industry comparison FISA score is genius and I base one of my departments KPI’s off of improving that score month over month. I can easily measure our remediation investments against our improvement or risk. When I did security consulting over the years, I would present a report and the following year would find the same high priority issues with nothing accomplished. This tool seems to drive action. S2 continues to refine the tool and open to suggestions. The support are responsive and rock stars! **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** When i have found something in the software that could save me time over the years - i would email S2 the idea and either they were already planning it or would add in the next version. So with that being said, i don't have any dislikes. **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** As i stated above, it does a great job of helping me prioritize, measure and present our organizations information security risks. ### 2. Security Studio Defines Security Posture with Auditable Proof **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John K. | Information Technology Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2020 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** Tech Reformers, LLC uses S2org to provide evidence of compliance across 4 areas of risk. We like how clients upload policies and procedures to be reviewed by our certified experts. It helps us create a roadmap to improve security. Security Studio lets us partner with our clients in a productive and efficient manner. The tool allows us to build long term relationships with our clients as, together, we work to improve security and lower risk across the 4 domains: Administrative Controls, Physical Controls, Internal Technical Controls, and External Technical Controls. **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** The surveys can be time consuming. But I like how Security Studio allows for 3 levels with the first, L1, being a shorter survey to get a handle on your security posture. By starting clients on the right level survey it alleviates the problem of starting with a survey that is just too cumbersome for an organization starting its security and risk compliance journey. With the Security Studio team, we even created a free assessment that allows for any of our target customers in Education Management to get a quick snapshot of how they stand. **Recommendations to others considering SecurityStudio:** I recommend Security Studion for organizations looking of a product focused on documenting security and risk backed by a company giving excellent customer support. I recommend it for those looking for a flexible product that can be customized for the user. **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tech Reformers wants a standards-based tool to measure security risk posture across the organizations with whom we consult. Security Studio provides evidence with an easy to understand score for executives with the backup material for auditors. Another benefit is that Security Studio is aligned to existing security, risk, and compliance standards. We focus on helping School Systems align to the NIST framework and Security Studio helps us get organizations to adopt NIST. ### 3. S2 Org has been a wonderful tool to become aware of your overall security posture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** The SecurityStudio products are very easy to understand and navigate with the latest update. We have been using S2 org and I have used and recommended S2 me personally. These tools give the users a S2 score. S2 scores are easy for people from any background to understand. We have been able to use the S2 org results to work on focusing our security efforts in schools. The information given out of the S2 org assessments is very valuable! **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** I have been overall happy. My only hurdle has been some of the constant changes and updates. For a while it felt like as soon as I got a grasp on the platform an update would happen and shift things a little. That has settled down now as the tools have matures more. I get that this was just growing pains so it's completely understandable to be a part of it. I'm looking forward to using the S2 org for quite some time to see growth and progress for our security adventures. **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We started doing these assessments to get on a continuous security improvement path. As more breaches occur, school district leadership became very concerned about making sure they were taking actions to ensure student and staff safety. This tool gives us measurable progress towards the goal of keeping students and staff secure in a very easy to understand way. I approached this like schools approach standardized testing: show continual score improvement over time. So far we are only in with the initial assessment. After completing that, we have been spending time digesting the results and making a plan to implement solutions. The biggest benefit of this tool is the score. The S2 score is very easy to digest and easy for everyone to understand even if they do not have a technical background. ### 4. This is the easy button for vendor assessments **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2020 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** Automation of a very tedious process Customer Service is 10+ stars! Vendor receives feedback well, and builds customer feedback into roadmap **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** Re-branding not possible Export/import of questions and answers not possible unless you contact the devs Cannot send email as a custom domain Lots of N/A's and false answers from vendors - scope of security questionnaire is undefined or understood to only be what is facing or holding customer data Comments are not consistent and it doesn't seem abundantly clear that vendors can add comments Cannot require a commented explanation if N/A is chosen to explain why you are choosing N/A Some questions do not necessitate an n/a answer Provide opportunity to remediate N/A answers, not only false answer **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time savings for evaluating 3rd party vendor risk & security ### 5. Excellent tool to understand an organization's information security and compliance position **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** One tool, multiple compliance standards. CMMC, HIPAA, ISO 27k, Soc 2 all map back to this tool. It provides a true measurement of risk, not just a gap analysis to the requirements/standards. Its quantifiable so it is easy to track risk remediation efforts. **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** Not really anything. The price is reasonable and security studio is easy to work with. **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used it to help our clients improve their security position and provide proof of compliance requirements. ### 6. Simple, Easy to Use, and Very Effective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2020 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** All the tools on the platform are very easy to use and make information security understandable to all personnel. We use S2Org for our company's information security risk management, S2Vendor for third-party information security risk management, S2Team for personnel information security risk management and S2Me. All the tools on the platform are simple and straightforward. There are no unnecessary steps or complexity, but there are no shortcuts either. The tools have stood up to serious scrutiny too! **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** The user interface (UI) could be a little more polished. The UI is easy to navigate, but it be more colorful and appealing. SecurityStudio has made great strides in their UI, and they just have a little further to go in my opinion. **Recommendations to others considering SecurityStudio:** It's a great tool with all the necessary capabilities. Using a tool like the ones provided by SecurityStudio (S2) requires some discipline on the part of the user. My recommendation is to login and do something with S2 at least once/week. Setting up a calendar invite helps as a reminder. **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use SecurityStudio to generate a comprehensive information security risk assessment for our executive management team and customers. We also use the platform to make/track information security risk decisions, create information security risk management road maps, assess and manage 3rd-party information security risk, and help our employees be more secure at home. We do these things all within the same SecurityStudio (S2) platform. Every tool on the platform is integrated and easy to use. ### 7. Vendefense **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kelly M. | IT Security Analyst, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2019 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** Vendefense provides an easy to use interface. The dashboard is well laid out. You can easily review the status of your vendors and where they are in their risk assessment. The risk assessment questions vary by the vendors rated impact. A medium impact vendor will not receive as detailed questionnaire as a high impact vendor. Risk Assessment questions are well worded with helpful pop-ups for additional clarification of the question. **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** There have been a couple outages of the application, though the vendor has been quick to respond and provide remediation. It would be nice to have access to the email notification templates for customization. **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many of our vendors have remote access to provide support of their systems. As a healthcare organization, we wanted to ensure our vendors are addressing security in their organization. We needed a solution for assessing the security posture of our vendors. VENDEFENSE provides a streamlined workflow for engaging vendors. It’s easy to use interface minimizes time spent managing assessments. VENDEFENSE produces detailed useful reports. With VENDEFENSE, we are able to identify gaps in vendor security and better protect our network. ### 8. Easy to Use and Powerful Vendor Risk Management Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily S. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2019 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** I really appreciate that VENDEFENSE gave me the tools to be successful with a more robust vendor risk management program without needing more specialized knowledge of this topic. Once we uploaded our vendors and answered some basic demographic questions on each one, the tool took over and now we're benefiting from an even stronger information security program. They also have great customer support to help with any questions that arise along the way. **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** I'm satisfied with the product so far. There's nothing I dislike. **Recommendations to others considering SecurityStudio:** Start with one vendor or a small test group when first putting vendors into the tool. Relationship owners and vendor contacts will naturally have questions and so you'll learn from each vendor experience and be able to apply that learning to subsequent entries. **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our organization was looking to enhance our vendor risk management program and processes. ### 9. Helpful Tool for Vendor Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2019 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** The customer service has been amazing! Whenever I have a question or issue they are quick to respond. They also are very open to suggestions for changes and responsive to things that aren't working. This tool helps our dispersed team come together in one tool to manage our vendors. Having the tool manage the status of each vendor and the workflow has been a huge time saver. The tool is straight forward and very easy to use. **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** There are still a few workflow items when working within the tool I would like to see changed. When working with the list of vendors that have classifications to be reviewed, after each vendor it returns to the list of vendors instead of the list of classifications. Or after approving the classification if it would just continue to the next vendor, that would be a huge time saver. There also could be a few more definitions of terminology right in the tool instead of having to go to the Help area to know the definition of Confidential and Physical/Logical Access, etc. **Recommendations to others considering SecurityStudio:** If you are not using a tool now and you need to have a Vendor Management program VENDEFENSE helps you get there quickly. **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Two years ago, we were a small software company in one location with 25 employees. Now we are a company with 3 divisions in 4 locations with remote employees in 12 states. VENDEFENSE is helping us review all our vendors and make sure they are protecting our data and our client’s data in a secure and proper manner. Prior to VENDEFENSE we were not vetting our vendors security practices at all. Now we have a tool that lets them know that we care about security and gives them guidelines on how they should be handling security as well. ### 10. Vendor management ease at it's best! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2019 **What do you like best about SecurityStudio?** It is very easy and intuitive to use. Very minimal training is required. Vendors like it as well. I like how it follows-up to ensure the vendor actually responds for you. **What do you dislike about SecurityStudio?** Cannot re-brand as our own which prevents some external vendors from realizing it is actually our portal. Cannot bulk import question answers from a spreadsheet. Could use a comments section for added context on some questions. **What problems is SecurityStudio solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vendor management risk tracking and reporting. 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