BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

Are you familiar with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s “Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity”? It’s often referred to as the “NIST risk management framework.” The interesting thing about the...

In 2015, many college and universities suffered substantial data breaches. In each case outlined below, universities lost personally-identifiable information (PII) on thousands of individuals, from their student bodies to faculty and...

Over the last few years, we’ve seen many new regulations and legal requirements put into place around third-party risk management affecting a number of sectors. But even companies without legal requirements forcing them to examine...

by Nick Whalen and Ethan Geil

BitSight collects, stores, and processes billions of security-related events every day. In our last post, we discussed reasons why we're moving our massive event store from HBase to S3. Today we’ll take a...