BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

The legal sector is one of the more interesting industries to examine when it comes to cybersecurity—and there are a few reasons for this. First, law firms and other legal organizations are one of the most widely-used third parties. While...

A key factor in the widespread reach of the WannaCry ransomware attack earlier this year was that, prior to the attack, companies across hundreds of countries failed to apply a critical update (MS17-010) from Microsoft. This attack, along...

Within the BitSight Security Ratings platform, we analyze risk vectors specifically chosen to help organizations identify and manage risks across their own networks and the networks of their third parties. Over the past few months,...

If you’re involved in a healthcare-based organization, you’ve likely noticed the push for stronger vendor security and vendor risk management (VRM) practices. There are a few reasons for this.

If more than half of an organization's endpoints are outdated, its chances of experiencing a detrimental breach of potentially sensitive data points nearly triples. With hackers looking for new ways to target vulnerable data in our...

From an IT perspective, an important part ofendpoint security refers to ensuring that the endpoint devices connected to your network—computers, laptops, mobile devices, tablets, etc.—are running on the latest version or patch to all...

In today’s day and age, organizations understand that data breaches are a growing problem, but many fail to realize that a third party breach can impact them as much as a breach on their own network. Here we’ll examine several...

This year marked another great Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit with over 3,000 attendees, bringing together CEOs, CIOs, CISOs, IT Directors, Risk Managers, and other risk and security professionals to National Harbor, MD from...

The financial services sector has traditionally been viewed as highly mature when it comes to cybersecurity initiatives. In fact, this BitSight Insights report found that the financial sector had the highest Security Rating of all examined...