Our Commitment to Fairness & Accuracy

BitSight believes that security ratings help address one of the greatest risks facing our society over the next century. BitSight was founded with the goal of increasing transparency about cybersecurity, enabling dynamic, informed interactions between global market participants and incentivizing a more trustworthy and secure global ecosystem.

BitSight is committed to creating trustworthy, data-driven, and dynamic measurements of organizational cybersecurity performance derived from objective, verifiable information. As an organization, we are proud of our independence and objectivity and are committed to applying our process consistently and uniformly.

BitSight is committed to creating trustworthy, data-driven, and dynamic measurements of organizational cybersecurity performance derived from objective, verifiable information. As the pioneer of the security ratings industry, BitSight established the guidelines for responsible development of security ratings. In 2017, BitSight helped create the "Principles for Fair and Accurate Security Ratings,” a series of practices developed alongside some of the world’s largest and most risk-focused companies. These Principles affirm the critical role of security ratings in society and the important responsibility that BitSight holds in creating these measurements.