BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

If your organization is grappling with a tight cybersecurity talent pool, you’re not alone. According to Gartner, 61% of organizations struggle to hire security professionals. It’s a problem that’s only going to get worse. The Harvard...

The aftermath of a cyber breach can be costly. But just how expensive and where the brunt of that financial impact falls has been somewhat unclear, until now. 

With economic sanctions being levied by the US against Iran and a trade war heating up with China, some security experts are cautioning that attacks targeting US critical infrastructure may be inevitable. Are electric utilities prepared to...

As tensions between the U.S. and Iran continue to heat up, a cyber war is already underway between the two nations.

This spring, the research paper titled “Risky Business: Assessing Security with External Measurements” was published on Cornell’s academic resource site. Authored by former BitSight data scientist, Jay Jacobs, as well as fellow academics...

A little over a month ago, Microsoft discovered a software security vulnerability that could ultimately lead to one of the worst cybersecurity attacks since 2017’s infamous WannaCry ransomware incident.

The past few years have shown us that the cybersecurity landscape has only gotten more complex, as massive attack after massive attack —WannaCry and NotPetya ransomwares, at Uber Technologies in 2016, from the Shadow Brokers group, and...

On May 14th, Microsoft issued a warning about the BlueKeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) affecting Remote Desktop Services Protocol (RDP), a component common in most versions of Microsoft Windows that allows remote access to its graphical...

A new report from McKinsey & Company sheds light on something we’ve known for many years – organizations are struggling to make significant progress in managing cybersecurity risk in their supply chains.