Why customers choose Bitsight vs. Security Scorecard

In today’s competitive cybersecurity marketplace, there’s always a risk of misinformation amongst options and capabilities.

Forrester Research, Inc., known for its respected, independent research in technology and security, has named Bitsight a Leader in its Forrester Wave™ report for Cybersecurity Risk Ratings. Bitsight earned the highest possible scores across 18 key criteria, solidifying its position as a top choice for organizations seeking robust cyber risk management solutions.

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Bitsight vs. Security Scorecard:
choosing the right fit for your risk program

Capability	Bitsight	Security Scorecard
Cyber Risk Ratings Platform Leader	Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms and earned the highest possible scores across 18 criteria.	Included in The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms.
External Attack Surface Management Leader	Recognized as a Leader in the Frost Radar™ for External Attack Surface Management and ranked among the top three for innovation.	Offers External Attack Surface Management capabilities as part of its broader cyber risk platform.
Attack Surface Management Leader	Named an Overall Leader in the 2025 KuppingerCole Leadership Compass for Attack Surface Management.	Provides attack surface management and supply chain risk capabilities within its broader platform.
Actionable threat intelligence from across the clear, deep and dark web	Delivers real-time cyber threat intelligence integrated across clear, deep, and dark web sources to support risk prioritization and response.	Provides threat monitoring and cyber risk insights as part of its platform.
Correlation of insights and security rating to real-world outcomes	Supported by independent studies showing correlation to breach risk and financial impact, including research from Marsh McLennan, Moody’s, Gallagher Re, and others.	States that its scores correlate with breach likelihood based on its own validation testing.
Comprehensive data collection capabilities	Uses proprietary Internet scanning, sinkhole infrastructure, and broad telemetry collection across both IPv4 and IPv6 web spaces.	Emphasizes proprietary data collection and broad external assessment coverage across digital environments.
Ability to identify and attribute assets across an expanded attack surface	Provides comprehensive Exposure Management powered by technologies such as AI, Groma and GIA, with more than 4 billion routable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses scanned daily.	Delivers broad external visibility and attack surface insights across internet-facing assets.
Demonstrated return on investment (ROI)	Delivers a documented 297% ROI based on commissioned study findings and operational efficiency gains.	Public materials highlight ROI and operational value for cyber risk management programs.
R&D, investment in innovation, and product roadmap	Built on a strong innovation foundation with 70+ patents and continued investment across cyber risk intelligence, exposure management, and analytics.	Continues to invest in security ratings, cyber risk workflows, and platform innovation.
Analytics and insights on the impact of security programs	Provides governance and analytics including peer benchmarking, root cause reporting, and executive-level reporting.	Offers analytics, benchmarking, and reporting to help organizations monitor and communicate cyber risk.
Remediation plan development to prioritize efforts	Helps organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate findings through integrated dashboards and structured remediation planning across first- and third-party risk.	Supports remediation planning and issue management within cyber risk and supply chain workflows.
Executive reporting: Dashboards and exposure reporting	Offers 30+ pre-designed reports and executive reporting with historical context to track ratings and exposure trends over time.	Provides dashboards and executive reporting to support cyber risk visibility and ongoing monitoring.
Communication, collaboration, and integration with vendors	Enables in-platform collaboration with vendors and supports integrations including Jira, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and Archer.	Supports vendor collaboration and a broad integration ecosystem across security and workflow tools.
Vendor network access	Includes a vendor network of more than 72,000 organizations through Trust Management Hub to streamline information sharing and third-party collaboration.	Supports vendor engagement and third-party risk workflows within its platform.
Cloud visibility to enhance continuous monitoring	Delivers visibility into AWS, GCP, and Azure through Cloud Infrastructure Sync to help maintain up-to-date awareness of cloud assets.	Supports cloud and supply chain visibility as part of broader continuous monitoring capabilities.
Customer onboarding and engagement	Provides a tailored onboarding experience designed to align with customer goals and improve program efficiency.	Offers onboarding and customer support designed to help organizations operationalize cyber risk programs efficiently.
Comprehensive strategy, vision, and innovation	Pioneered the security ratings market and continues to expand cyber risk management through integrated attack surface management, threat intelligence, and analytics.	Focuses on advancing cyber risk measurement, supply chain detection and response, and workflow automation.
Pricing	Bitsight pricing reflects the breadth of integrated capabilities, including predictive risk scoring validated against real-world outcomes, large-scale external telemetry, and embedded threat intelligence across clear, deep, and dark web sources. Bitsight pricing is customized and quote-based for each customer, tailored to their needs, size, and scope of monitoring.	See Security Scorecard website for latest pricing.

Bitsight Customer Reviews

	Gartner Peer Insights View reviews	G2 View reviews
Customer Reviews	4.5/5	4.6/5

The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2024

"[Bitsight] boasts an unmatched commitment to innovation…”; Bitsight “leans heavily into ratings model validation and correlation studies to continuously test its ratings’ alignment with real-world incidents."

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Bitsight vs. Security Scorecard Overview

Bitsight

With more than 3,500 customers worldwide and over 70 issued patents, Bitsight is a global leader in cyber risk intelligence and exposure management. Since pioneering the security ratings industry in 2011, Bitsight has helped organizations quantify, benchmark, and reduce cyber risk across their digital ecosystems.

Bitsight delivers an integrated platform spanning:

External Attack Surface Management (EASM)
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Third-Party Risk Monitoring
Third Party Dark Web Intelligence
MITRE ATT&CK Mapping
Vulnerability Detection and Response
Identity & Credential Exposure Intelligence
Cybersecurity Analytics and Executive Reporting

Its global data collection and monitoring capabilities include:

40 million+ monitored organizations
250 million+ hostnames
4 billion+ routable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

By combining large-scale external telemetry with validated risk scoring and predictive analytics, Bitsight enables organizations to move beyond alerts and toward measurable cyber risk reduction.

Security Scorecard

SecurityScorecard, founded in 2014, is a cybersecurity firm offering security ratings and risk management solutions including continuous monitoring and actionable insights. Products include Supply Chain Detection and Response, External Attack Surface Management, and Cyber Risk Quantification. SecurityScorecard focuses on helping businesses understand and mitigate cyber threats within their operations and supply chains.

Proven Data Correlation & Accuracy

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.

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Trust Matters

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.

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