BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

Most organizations are accustomed to benchmarking certain business areas like sales, profits, and resource allocation. These areas all have one thing in common — they are easily measured with simple, quantifiable metrics.

The implementation of many strict cybersecurity regulations and requirements (including GDPR, NYDFS, and more) continues to increase on a global scale. 2018 has also brought about the continuation of strict cybersecurity regulations in...

Effective cybersecurity involves regularly assessing the effectiveness of your organization’s policies, tools, and processes to ensure you’re staying ahead of the curve. In order to gain insight into your cybersecurity performance, you...

In today’s evolving cyber risk landscape, Boards of Directors are becoming increasingly concerned about their company’s security performance. In fact, the NACD has found that 89% of public companies and 72% of private companies...

Quantifying and tracking your cybersecurity performance so you can compare your organization to others, also known as benchmarking, is necessary to improving the effectiveness of your security programs.

As a member of your company’s board, you know that cybersecurity is a critical risk that simply cannot be ignored, and that should be reported on regularly by the appropriate executives. According to the 2017 NACD Director’s Handbook on...

When 1+1 Truly Equals 3

Recently, Verizon announced the Verizon Risk Report (VRR), a new managed service offering that provides a security assessment framework to enable customers to gain a comprehensive view of their cyber risk. By...

As the BitSight front end team grows we are investing in our design infrastructure to enable faster development, better collaboration, and a more unified look and feel in our product.

As advances in cloud computing and managed services have made IT operations more streamlined, the focus of IT leaders has shifted to improving efficiency, agility, and risk management. Managing risk, in particular, has become an even...