BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

If you’re using a “one-size fits all” approach to managing your vendor lifecycle, you are missing opportunities to save money and operate more efficiently. Vendor management efficiencies don’t end in the onboarding stage: using a...

Data can be the key to making more informed, strategic cybersecurity decisions — and ensuring you’re spending your security dollars effectively. In order to get the most out of your increasingly limited security resources and meet or...

It should come as no surprise that the cybersecurity landscape has been changing dramatically throughout the year 2020. According to BitSight research, up to 85% of the workforce in some industries has shifted to remote work in response to...

One of the more challenging aspects of third party risk management is effectively communicating risk. Often the risks posed by vendors are highly technical, and it can be tempting to simply put together a slide or list to review with...

Between difficulty communicating with boards and executives, decreasing budgets, and difficulty measuring how exactly risk was being reduced, security leaders are under pressure to change the way they do things. The situation for security...

Let’s face it: In order to get the most out of your limited time and resources, you need to rethink the traditional processes you have in place throughout your risk management program — from the initial discovery and assessment phases to...

Significant concerns have been raised about the security of the 2020 United States election. Hundreds of millions of dollars in Federal funding has been made available to state and local governments to improve the security of election...

In the upcoming months, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) will go live. Thousands of third party assessors will begin cybersecurity assessments of hundreds of thousands of U.S. Defense contractors.  What will the...

If you’re experiencing frustrating delays and procedural roadblocks during your vendor management process, you’re not alone. Security managers are seeing an increase in the number of third-parties integrating with their business, and ...

It’s easy to forget that cybersecurity teams were facing significant headwinds going into 2020. After years of ever expanding budgets, new tech and new tools, a string of public breaches (in spite of the growing spend), hard questions from...

In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, more employees have been working from home over the past several months than ever before. In fact, during the period of March 2020, we looked at a sample size of 41,000 organizations and found...

During this dynamic and stressful workplace environment 2020 has brought us, finding the most efficient ways to perform in your job has never been more important. When it comes to managing your vendor lifecycle, there are three ways you...

Online services, e-commerce sites, videoconference, delivery services, and all other kinds of services are growing exponentially, exposing users and data to new risks and threats.  Users expect that the sites and services they rely on are...

In today’s competitive marketplace, more and more companies are realizing that maintaining a good security posture is a crucial market differentiator — playing an essential role in their ability  to earn customer trust and protect their...