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Bitsight Continuous Monitoring

Detect emerging threats. Manage changing risk.

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Mitigate vendor risk with precision

As your digital supply chain grows, managing third-party risk becomes increasingly difficult. Bitsight Continuous Monitoring empowers you to manage and address vendor risk over time with objective, market leading data—that has proven correlation to security incidents.

Quickly tier vendors for better visibility into critical risk.

Take action when vendor risk is surfaced.

Strengthen mitigation efforts with actionable data.

ICT Supply Chain Risk Management Service Element Lead

NASA

Bitsight has allowed us to automate our security monitoring process, resulting in about 50% time and efficiency savings. We can get real-time information right from the easy-to-use dashboard.”

Do more with less.

Accelerate third-party risk mitigation and remediation.

Respond to changing third-party risk over time.

Manage an expanding supply chain with limited resources.

Gain visibility into extended vendor ecosystem concentrated risk.

Report critical risk insights and results to stakeholders.

Understand third-party cyber risk. Accelerate mitigation efforts.

Correlated risk vectors	Bitsight risk vectors correlate to vendor likelihood of suffering from ransomware or data breach, so you can focus your mitigation efforts.
Vulnerability detection & response	Surfaced evidence and scalable questionnaire outreach enable you to prioritize and respond to major security events and zero day vulnerabilities.
Effective vendor collaboration	Evidence-based collaboration empowers you to reduce risk more efficiently, with quicker and more effective remediation.
Extended ecosystem visibility	Automatic product discovery shows areas of concentrated risk and facilitates fourth-party risk management.
Integrated third-party risk management	Native integration with Bitsight VRM assessment tool, data feeds, and business tools such as GRC or BI, streamline a flexible TPRM program and increase overall efficiency.
Managed services	Expert professional support allows you to continuously assess third-party risk, actively identify vulnerabilities, and collaborate with vendors to remediate threats.
Framework intelligence	Automates the mapping of vendor documentation to frameworks like SIG Lite, NIST CSF, and ISO 27001, so you can accelerate onboarding, reduce manual work, and scale compliance reviews with confidence .
Fourth-party visibility	Uncovers automatically fourth-party relationships. Helps pinpoint concentration risk, prioritize response during supply chain events, and communicate critical exposure to stakeholders with confidence.

Bitsight Continuous Monitoring FAQ

What kinds of risks or events can continuous monitoring help detect?

Continuous monitoring can surface:

Vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and emerging threats (e.g., new critical vulnerabilities or weak configurations)
Compromised systems and malware activity, including botnet infections and malware servers
Changes in risk vector grades, such as open ports, TLS/SSL certificate issues, and patching cadence deviations
Dark-web exposures and public breach disclosures
Anomalous user behavior, like unauthorized file-sharing or leaked credentials
Supply-chain and third-party ecosystem attacks

Bitsight actively monitors over 40 million organizations worldwide against 25 risk vectors to pinpoint real-world exposure—everything from vulnerability detections to anomalous behavior—so you can prioritize the signals that matter most.

What data sources and signals should be included in a continuous monitoring feed?

A robust feed combines:

Active data: Internet-wide scanning of assets (via Bitsight Groma) for open ports, software versions, and new vulnerabilities.
Passive data: Sinkholes, honeypots, malware emulators to detect ransomware precursors, botnets, and malicious scanning.
Infrastructure signals: BGP routing data, DNS records, WHOIS, certificate transparency logs, CA data.
Version and lifecycle signals: Endpoint/browser/OS versions and hardware/software lifecycle management activities.
Behavioral signals: Endpoint activity anomalies (e.g., lateral movement patterns).

Bitsight’s platform ingests over 120 unique data feeds—combining active Groma scans with passive sinkhole data, certificate logs, routing records, and more—to deliver a unified stream of objective signals into your continuous monitoring dashboards.

How does continuous monitoring enable GRC?

Continuous monitoring feeds real-time risk signals directly into GRC platforms, allowing governance, risk, and compliance teams to:

Map security ratings and incident alerts into GRC records (e.g., RSA Archer integration)
Automate vendor risk updates and remediation workflows based on objective security data
Trigger compliance actions when ratings or risk vector grades cross defined thresholds
Unify third-party risk management across procurement, legal, and audit functions in one end-to-end solution

Bitsight integrates out-of-the-box with leading GRC platforms—like RSA Archer, ServiceNow, and LogicManager—pushing daily ratings and alert data directly into your compliance workflows and dashboards for end-to-end risk governance.

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