Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Measuring cybersecurity protection for national critical infrastructure

Cybersecurity attacks on critical national infrastructure are growing at an alarming rate. Successful attacks can be devastating, disrupting financial services, utilities, transportation systems, and other essential infrastructure. To counter these threats, many governments and related agencies are seeking methods to better measure, monitor, and investigate the cybersecurity risks of nation states and their critical infrastructure companies.

Bitsight for Critical National Infrastructure is a subscription-based security ratings platform that provides insight into detailed key security performance indicators (Cybersecurity KPIs) to enable organizations to easily assess national security. With Bitsight, national security organizations and computer emergency response teams access the information they need to better understand the threats to critical infrastructure cybersecurity and their country’s security performance.

The challenges to critical infrastructure cybersecurity

As digital transformation has made the world more interconnected, cyberattacks have become some of the most common and dangerous types of threats against national security. Attackers aim to gain access to the networks of governments or their trusted, third-party vendors to unleash devastating attacks on an array of critical infrastructure. Cybersecurity attacks may threaten energy systems, nuclear resources, water systems, aviation systems, and food and agriculture systems. Sophisticated attacks may even support espionage, extract high-value intellectual property, and compromise networks to lay a foundation for future exploits.

To combat critical infrastructure cybersecurity threats, nations and government agencies must measure, monitor, and understand the nature of threats as well as the performance of their security programs and controls. Until recently, the task of gathering and processing cyber threat intelligence and monitoring security controls has primarily been a manual process. As a result, governments and agencies often lack visibility into critical infrastructure cybersecurity. As threats continue to develop and spread, organizations charged with protecting national security need a more efficient way to develop the intelligence that can drive security strategy and policy.

Bitsight for Critical National Infrastructure

Bitsight is the world’s leading Security Rating Service, transforming the way companies manage information security risk with objective, verifiable, and actionable security ratings.

Bitsight for Critical National Infrastructure provides greater visibility and context around the cyber threats confronting nation states. Bitsight ratings detail the cyber threats occurring in a geographic area, providing government stakeholders with a better understanding of trends occurring within their country. Furthermore, government actors can execute searches on threat intelligence at a country-wide level and develop strategic plans to reduce and prevent cybercrime.

With Bitsight, governments can benchmark the security performance of their nation against others and review how key industries in their country perform when compared to industries in other nations. Bitsight ratings are available through a secure portal and an API that enables integration with other platforms.

Bitsight Sovereign Security Ratings are an objective and verifiable measurement of a country’s relative security performance. Updated daily, ratings are based on a broad array of vectors in four classes of externally observable data: compromised systems, user behavior, security diligence, and public disclosures. The higher the rating, the more effective a nation is at implementing good security practices across its networks.

Benefits of Bitsight’s critical infrastructure cybersecurity ratings

By regularly rating critical infrastructure cybersecurity, nations can:

Benchmark national security performance

Bitsight’s unique data and insights enable governments to understand their country’s national cybersecurity performance. With Bitsight for Critical National Infrastructure, governments can benchmark their own security performance against counterparts to understand how key industries perform when compared to other nations. With these insights, governments identify security shortcomings, set realistic targets, create security plans, and reduce cyber risk.

Continuously monitor critical infrastructure cybersecurity

Bitsight delivers actionable and continuous insight into cyber risks threatening a nation. Rather than relying on subjective, outdated datasets, governments leverage Bitsight to continuously and automatically measure, monitor, and learn more about specific cybersecurity risks. Bitsight reveals the prevalence of risks and vulnerabilities within the country, and the specific risks facing critical organizations. Bitsight ratings also issue alerts when the security posture of agencies or nations change or deviate from established risk thresholds.

Inform decision-making with forensic data

Bitsight Sovereign Security Ratings reveal data-driven risk insights so stakeholders make better decisions to improve security postures and address risk. Forensic details and infection data help cybersecurity teams facilitate remediation. Government stakeholders review cybersecurity trends within their nation, execute searches on a country-wide level, and put plans in place to reduce risk and prevent cybercrime.

Why choose Bitsight?

An industry-leading solution

Bitsight is the world’s leading provider of cyber risk intelligence, transforming how security leaders manage and mitigate risk. Leveraging the most comprehensive external data and analytics, Bitsight empowers organizations to make confident, data-backed decisions and equips security and compliance teams from over 3,300 organizations across 70+ countries with the tools to proactively detect exposures and take immediate action to protect their enterprises and supply chains.

Bitsight customers include 38% of Fortune 500 companies, 4 of the top 5 investment banks, and 180+ government agencies and quasi-governmental authorities, including U.S. and global financial regulators.

Extensive visibility

Bitsight operates one of the largest risk datasets in the world. Leveraging over 10 years of experience collecting, attributing, and assessing risk across millions of entities, we combine the power of AI with the curation of technical researchers to unlock an unparalleled view of your organization. Bitsight offers more complete visibility into important risk areas such as botnets, mobile apps, IoT systems, and more. Our cyber data collection and scanning capabilities include:

• 40 million+ monitored entities
• 540 billion+ cyber events in our data lake
• 4 billion+ routable IP addresses 
• 500 million+ domains monitored
• 400 billion+ events ingested daily
• 12+ months of historical data

Superior analytics

Bitsight offers a full analytics suite that addresses the challenges of peer comparison, digital risk exposure, and future performance.

Ratings validation

Bitsight is the only rating solution with third-party validation of correlation to breach from AIR Worldwide and IHS Markit.

Quantifiable outcomes

Bitsight drives proven ROI with significant operational efficiency and risk reduction outcomes.

Prioritization of risk vectors

Bitsight incorporates the criticality of risk vectors in to calculation of Security Ratings, highlighting risk in a more diversified way to ensure the most critical assets and vulnerabilities are ranked higher.