BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

If your organization is entering into a relationship with a vendor or partner, due diligence is key to mitigating third-party risk. Due diligence allows risk management and compliance teams to make informed decisions about who your...

We are excited to announce a new research partnership with the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies (CCRS). Our joint research will analyze the relationship between organizational cybersecurity investments and risk reduction. 

Network security monitoring tools are a critical component of any IT security toolkit. These resources monitor and manage your network for cyber risk by scanning your organization’s digital assets for security vulnerabilities and threats.

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BitSight is committed to creating trustworthy, data-driven, and actionable measurements of organizational cybersecurity performance. As part of this commitment, BitSight periodically makes improvements to our ratings algorithm. These...

To serve your customers and realize efficiencies, your organization may work with dozens if not hundreds of third parties including partners, vendors, cloud service providers, and subcontractors. 

But digital ties with these providers...

Hospitals are under cyber attack. Are they able to defend themselves? A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) provides brand new perspectives on the state of hospital cybersecurity...

Hospitals, doctors’ networks, insurance companies, and other healthcare organizations are guardians of valuable protected health information (PHI). As such they are particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks – and these threats are...

The financial services sector is one of the highest performing in terms of cybersecurity. One factor that contributes to this performance is regulation. Laws such as FFIEC IT, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, NYDFS, GDPR, and SOC2 have placed...

Facebook and the apps under its umbrella, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were inaccessible for hours on Monday. The outage hamstrung the communications of billions of people, businesses, and other organizations.

Though Facebook is not...

Network security threats are constantly evolving, and right now we’re in the middle of a particularly challenging time. While big-name breaches like SolarWinds and others grab headlines, multitudes of smaller incidents continue to occur...