BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

Over recent weeks, the ongoing spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus has forced companies around the country to make difficult decisions about how they can do their part to protect their employees — as well as their communities as a whole.

The Department of Defense (DoD) has one of the largest supply chains in the world, scaling to hundreds of thousands of different vendors and partners. Yet, these vital partners in our nation’s defense infrastructure pose a huge cyber risk.

Cyber hackers are an opportune group of people, hunting like predators and shifting their approach as needed. And now, they’re leveraging the concern and — in some cases — hysteria about the coronavirus outbreak to advance their nefarious...

Earlier this month, ZDNet broke the news that the FBI had sent a cybersecurity alert to the U.S. private sector warning of an ongoing hacking campaign against supply chain software providers. According to the FBI, hackers are attempting to...

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 classic...

Network segmentation — the act of dividing a network into multiple smaller, isolated networks that are not visible from the outside — has long been used to reduce cyber risk. At its core, segmentation assumes a “zero trust” approach to...

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...

Cybersecurity is a priority for many organizations these days, but one sector of particular concern is healthcare.

Today, 59% of data breaches originate with third-party vendors. And, as globalization brings more interconnected supply chains, that number is anticipated to grow.