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Forrester Research, Inc., known for its respected, independent research in technology and security, has named Bitsight a 2026 Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Rating Platforms, Q2 2026. Bitsight earned the highest possible score solidifying its position as a top choice for organizations seeking robust cyber risk management solutions.
Bitsight | RiskRecon | |
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| Cyber Risk Ratings Platform Leader | Highest total score earned by Forrester Wave, Cyber Risk Ratings Platforms, listed as Leader | Not listed |
| External Attack Surface Management Leader | Placed top right as Leader on Frost Radar™ EASM report, recognized as top 3 in Innovation | Not listed |
| Attack Surface Management Leader | Recognized as an Overall Leader by KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Attack Surface Management, 2025 | Not listed |
| Correlation of insights and security rating to real-world outcomes | Correlated to real-world risk, validated by independent studies from Marsh Mclennan, Moody’s, Gallagher Re and more | No independent data that correlates scores to real-world incident likelihoods or outcomes |
| Transparent return on investment (ROI) | 297% ROI. See the calculator | ROI data not available |
| R&D, investment in innovation | 64 patents to date and the largest R&D investment. View latest announcements | 4 active patents. R&D investment details unknown |
Bitsight | RiskRecon | |
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| External attack surface management: Solutions | Robust EASM solution with comprehensive asset discovery, vulnerability prioritization, continuous monitoring, and integration capabilities, providing in-depth visibility into a company’s external attack surface | No dedicated EASM tool, focuses on risk assessment and prioritization only |
| Data collection capabilities | Bitsight data collection includes proprietary Internet scanner, the largest sinkhole, and other active and passive data collecting technologies. Scans both the IPv4 and IPv6 web spaces | Scope of IP scanning volume & internet entity scanning capability unknown |
| Asset identification & mapping | Comprehensive Exposure Management powered by Bitsight technologies like Groma and GIA. More than 4 billion-plus routable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses scanned daily | Only passive scanning of public data sources for asset attribution |
| Analytics and insights | Governance and analytics for both first and third-party performance that includes detailed industry peer and competitor benchmarking capabilities, with goal setting and root cause reporting | Performance analytics primarily focus on third-party risk management only |
| Executive reporting | 30+ pre-designed, out-of-the-box reports communicate ratings and exposure findings and changes. Executive reports include 18 months of data to provide historical context to security performance. Read about external attack surface management | Executive summaries report on vendor performance and events |
| Forecasting analytics and capabilities | Robust forecasting tools based on historical data and trends to predict how resource allocation can impact security posture. Scenario modeling to simulate remediation strategies and potential impact to support informed decision-making | No dedicated forecasting tools. No known scenario modeling or progress tracking capabilities |
| Enhanced cloud visibility | Bitsight provides enhanced visibility into AWS, GCP, and Azure via Cloud Infrastructure Sync, which can be enabled in about 15 minutes, to maintain up-to-date visibility of cloud assets | Cloud infrastructure support unknown |
Bitsight | RiskRecon | |
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| Third-party risk management: Solutions | End-to-end TPRM solution including vendor risk management (onboarding & assessments), third party continuous monitoring and analytics, and automatic vendor discovery. Capabilities for managing third party vulnerabilities and fourth party risk | Focuses on efficient risk assessments and prioritization tools. Requires customer-supplied vendor lists |
| Fourth-party risk | Rich fourth-party mapping data based on granular, extensive supply chain intelligence | Data dependent on only observable internet data. Mapping capabilities unknown |
| Vulnerability detection | Identifies vulnerabilities and helps prioritize vendors through market-leading vulnerability intelligence Includes zero-day monitoring and risk detection | Zero-day monitoring not available |
| Professional services | Offers expert consultant services that help fast-track vendor onboarding and assessments, continuously monitor vendor security performance, proactively manage vulnerabilities, and more | Professional services not listed |
| Partner & vendor ecosystem | Full circle in-platform collaboration with worldwide vendors. Targeted, robust integration portfolio to streamline workflows and enhance both TPRM and EASM solutions, including:
| Integration portfolio focuses on third-party risk and assessment. Integrations and partners include:
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Bitsight | RiskRecon | |
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| Cyber threat intelligence: Solutions | Real-time cyber threat intelligence from across the clear, deep and dark Web for proactive threat detection & mitigation | Threat Protection’s (module) passive approach focuses only on assessing risk with third-party relationships |
| Scope & data quality | Provides full & real-time visibility, detecting immediate and emerging threats. Tracks 700+ APT groups, 4,000+ malware types, 95 million threat actors, 6 million IOCs | Focuses on assessing third-party risks and vulnerabilities |
| Credential monitoring | Collects over 1 billion compromised credentials weekly through the Identity Intelligence module | No data available |
| Analysis & alerts | Bitsight IQ harnesses GenAI to transform vast volumes of CTI data into actionable insights for faster cyber threat response | No alert data available |
Bitsight | RiskRecon | |
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| Security ratings scope & breadth | Continuously enhanced rating with annual rating algorithm updates (RAU) based on evolving cyber threats and customer feedback. Rating includes 25 Risk Vectors and captures 12+ months of historical data. 2025 Dynamic Remediation initiative accelerates the rating refresh process post-remediations | Rating is based on weighted geometric mean focusing on issue severity and system value at risk. Latest known rating algorithm update was February 2024. Historical data coverage unknown
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| Timely, reliable ratings updates | Bitsight's data engine processes 400 billion security events daily, providing real-time updates and a detailed historical view | Ratings updated every 14 days |
| Use case: Insurance underwriting | Market-leading risk analytics allow insurers to confidently determine underwriting guidelines and pricing. Monitoring and risk modeling tools help manage risk across entire insurance portfolio. Evaluate cyber risk of third- and fourth-party vendors | Not focused on underwriting solutions or risk modeling. Prioritizes third-party risk visibility |
Gartner Peer Insights | G2 | |
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| Customer Reviews | 4.5/5 | 4.6/5 |
The Bitsight Security Rating provides an objective, data-driven lens to view the health of an organization’s cyber security program.
Bitsight data is independently verified to correlate with an organization’s risk of a security incident or data breach. See reports by AIR Worldwide, IHS Markit, Marsh McLennan, and Moody’s Analytics, demonstrating this critical connection.
Per Moody's Analytics, Bitsight Analytics is also correlated to financial risk and firm value.
Security leaders need solutions that help them identify and mitigate risks in their own organizations and broader third party supply chain, including vendors, suppliers, and business associates. Attackers continue to exploit known vulnerabilities and target critical third party suppliers to gain access to sensitive data or inflict operational harm. With the growing criticality of cybersecurity risk rating platforms in the global marketplace, trust and data accuracy matters.
Bitsight is committed to creating trustworthy, data-driven, and dynamic measurements of organizational cybersecurity performance derived from objective, verifiable information. In 2017, Bitsight helped create the "Principles for Fair and Accurate Security Ratings,” (PDF) a series of practices developed alongside some of the world’s largest and most risk-focused companies. These Security Ratings Principles affirm the critical role of security ratings in society and the important responsibility that Bitsight holds in creating these measurements.