BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

Microsoft recently announced that the threat actor Nobelium continues to target government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-government organizations with cyber attacks. 

In light of recent significant attacks targeting the U.S. government, the Biden administration issued an Executive Order (EO) on cybersecurity on May 8, 2021.

Overall, the EO starts to fill in some critical gaps in US government...

A week ago (which seems like a world ago given everything that’s happened with SolarWinds) Phil Venables -- formerly CISO of Goldman Sachs and now CISO of Google Cloud -- posted an interesting expose on security ratings this week. Phil...

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...

Back in 1990, Hollywood producers imagined a complex plot in which an army of mercenaries with malicious intent hack into and take over the air traffic control system at Washington Dulles International Airport. The result was the...

Federal technology contractors hold the keys to our nation’s security in their networks, servers, and databases. Yet, recent incidents point to worrisome vulnerabilities that indicate increased cyber risk to defense contractors and the...

This is the introductory post in a series exploring how security ratings can address key aspects of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The purpose...

For years, it has been widely-known that the Utilities industry has struggled with cyber security in relation to other industries. In 2014, Unisys and the Ponemon Institute found that 70% of Utility companies surveyed around the world...

It's the time of year that every media outlet talks about predictions and resolutions. We've compiled a list of the most interesting and/or relevant information security predictions for 2015 and added a few of our own, courtesy of...