Security Impact on Company returns
  • Investors and other business leaders know that cyber is a critical piece of risk and impacts the bottom line. Security incidents and overall cybersecurity management has real impact on company performance and returns.
     
  • Cyber risk can be simple. Our strategic partners use Bitsight as a relative benchmark to understand the relative risk of a company – and, where enhanced due diligence is necessary to drive down risk.
     
  • We provide a piece of the bigger integrated risk management picture. If cyber risk of a portfolio is high, we make sure leaders have tools to understand and inform decisions.

 

*Image Source. Cyber impact on financial performance and risk, Moody's Whitepaper

Use Cases

Fixed Income & Credit Risk

Price cyber risk into your investment diligence, decisioning, and underwriting

Alpha Signal

Identify opportunities for outperformance using cyber as a low-latency proxy for corporate governance

Portfolio Management

Identify high-risk companies in your portfolio and prioritize risk mitigation or engagement activities to actively minimize cyber risk exposure

Investment Stewardship

Enhance and protect long-term investment value by promoting good cyber governance and risk management 

Rob Fauber
President and Chief Executive Officer of Moody's
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As organizations invest in cyber defense and resilience, another critical need has emerged: the ability to accurately measure and quantify cyber risk and exposure. Creating transparency and enabling trust is at the core of Moody’s mission – to help organizations assess complex, interconnected risks and make more informed decisions. Bitsight is the leader in the cybersecurity ratings space, and together we will help market participants across disciplines better understand, measure, and manage their cyber risks and translate that to the risk 
of financial loss."

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Bitsight Analytics Correlated to Financial Risk and Firm Value per Moody's Analytics

“We [Moody’s Analytics] found that cybersecurity practices, as proxied by the Bitsight cybersecurity rating, are strongly correlated with the likelihood 
of a cyber incident.”

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Corporate Cybersecurity Engagement — 
A Practical Guide for Investors

Discover how Nomura Asset Management enhanced cybersecurity risk management with Bitsight’s data, significantly reducing ransomware risks in the multinational development bank sector. This case study highlights strategic improvements and real-time performance analytics leading to measurable cybersecurity enhancements