Information Security Requirements

Complying With Evolving Information Security Requirements

As organizations battle sustained attacks from a constantly changing landscape of cybersecurity threats, breaches have become the new “business normal.” The catastrophic impact of breaches has caused regulators around the world to create new and more strict information security requirements, guidelines, and frameworks to better protect organizations and the customer and employee data they possess. To ensure compliance in this increasingly complex regulatory environment, you need solutions that deliver greater visibility into your organization’s security performance and the risk present in your digital ecosystem and third-party network.

Bitsight can help. Bitsight Security Ratings provide a comprehensive view of your organization’s security posture as well as in-depth analysis of your security performance across multiple risk vectors, including areas mandatory to monitor in compliance with security standards. With Bitsight, you can more easily comply with evolving information security requirements and better protect your organization from a broad range of cyber risk.

What’s Driving Changes In Information Security Requirements?

As security breaches continue to plague businesses in every vertical, there is a growing list of organizations that have sustained record fines for failing to comply with information security requirements or legislation.

Cyber security regulations today tend to center on two key themes: establishing senior-level accountability for dealing with security and risk strategically, and ensuring that companies have effective information security controls in place to monitor security performance of their organizations and their third-party vendors.

The intention of new legislation is to highlight the need for executives and boards to ensure their organizations have adopted measures that safeguard the personal data of customers from misuse or unauthorized access to the best of their ability. These new cybersecurity standards also recognize the risk present in supply chains and emphasize the importance of effective third-party risk management processes that require vendor networks to adhere to the same standards as your own internal cybersecurity program.

In this ever-changing universe of regulation, organizations that focus solely on compliance will always be several steps behind the curve. To manage compliance and risk mandates effectively, organizations must develop cybersecurity policy that’s focused on continuously monitoring, measuring, and mitigating risk instead of waiting for risks to present themselves.

That’s where Bitsight excels.

Bitsight Security Ratings

Bitsight Security Ratings help organizations navigate complex information security requirements by providing continuous visibility into their own security performance and the security posture of their third-party vendors.

Bitsight’s industry-leading Security Ratings provide an objective measurement of security performance based on external and verifiable information about compromised systems, user behavior, security diligence, and data breaches. Issued daily, Bitsight ratings help you flag risk in your own digital ecosystem and expose risk within your supply chain. Armed with Bitsight Security Ratings, you can more easily identify risk, focus resources on remediation, and facilitate data-driven conversations with senior leadership and your board.

Bitsight Security Ratings provide both an overall quantitative measure of security posture as well as significant detail on performance across 25 risk vectors. Ratings range from 250 to 900, with the current achievable range being 300-820. The higher the rating, the more effective the rated company is at implementing good security practices.

Bitsight ratings have been independently verified to correlate to data breaches, providing greater insight into vulnerabilities within your own IT environment and that of your third parties. For example, companies with a Bitsight Security Rating of 500 or lower are nearly 5 times more likely to experience a breach than companies with a rating of 700 or higher.

Managing Information Security Requirements With Bitsight

Bitsight offers solutions built on its security rating platform that simplify the task of complying with information security requirements, including:

• Bitsight for Security Performance Management helps your security and risk leaders take a risk-based, outcome-driven approach to managing your organization’s cybersecurity programs. Through broad measurement, continuous monitoring, attack surface analytics, and detailed planning and forecasting, Bitsight helps you to measure the effectiveness of your investments in cybersecurity protection and take action to improve your security programs immediately and over time.
• Bitsight for Third-Party Risk Management continuously assesses the security posture of every vendor integrated with your network. With Bitsight, your third-party risk management teams can continuously monitor and quantify the risk posed by vendor relationships to measurably reduce cyber risk in your third-party ecosystem. With daily, objective, and quantitative ratings, you can track each vendor’s security performance over time, receiving alerts when their security posture weakens or if a critical vendor is experiencing a potential risk.

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. 

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