BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

It’s not hard to justify why you need property insurance when you’re surrounded by your physical goods that you don’t want to be lost or damaged in your home or business. So why isn’t cybersecurity the same?

The unfolding Hafnium attack is the latest event in the trend of cyber events. CISO’s are starting to recognize that enterprise cyber security is being redefined to mean me and all my suppliers, or the combination of first and third party...

Oftentimes, security managers fall into the trap of believing that a large or commonly used cloud services organization is safe to have connected to their network. Cloud services providers aren’t immune to bad actors targeting their...

Organizations around the globe continue to address the fallout from the Microsoft Exchange Server zero-day attacks. It was recently announced that hackers may now be exploiting the vulnerabilities in Exchange to drop ransomware into...

Government agencies in the United States are yet again suffering from a widespread data hack, this time originating from Microsoft Exchange servers. This breach comes less than five months after the SolarWinds breach exposed vulnerabilities

Microsoft Exchange is a critical business software used by organizations around the world for email. Sensitive data and communications are stored and transacted on the platform daily. In an unusual situation, threat actors have performed...

As a recent Forrester report highlighted, there are many cybersecurity ratings available. Security ratings have a valuable place in your overall cyber risk mitigation strategy, for many reasons.

Not all security ratings are equal though.

On March 2, Microsoft announced that it has detected multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. According to Microsoft, in the attacks observed, cybersecurity threat actors used this...

You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep, and the same goes for your security ratings partner. All security ratings are not created equal.

Your IT department spends a great deal of time distributing security information and maintaining your organization’s internal security processes. Unfortunately, a persistent threat, deemed shadow IT, is still making its way into your...

It’s every security manager's worst nightmare. A member of the IT department reaches to alert that malicious software has been detected on an internal network, and the hacker potentially has access to layers of sensitive data. In the...