Read about the latest cybersecurity news and get advice on third-party vendor risk management, reporting cybersecurity to the Board, managing cyber risks, benchmarking security performance, and more.
BitSight customers can now gain greater insight into the cybersecurity risk of their vendor ecosystem and measure the efficacy of their third party cyber risk programs. BitSight’s new Portfolio Quality Dashboard generates interactive...
Written with the assistance of Dan Dahlberg, Ethan Geil, and Ross Penkala.
Last Friday morning, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was carried out against Dyn, a managed DNS provider that offers Internet services for Twitter,...
Security Ratings are still a relatively new phenomenon. As a result, many security and risk professionals are still familiarizing themselves with how ratings work, the data used to compute ratings, and how ratings are put into action. We...
Ransomware has been all the talk lately in the security industry- and deservedly so. These attacks have surged in the last year: hospitals, banks, and local police departments have all been infected with ransomware. Organizations have been...
BitSight has grown tremendously over the last few years, and we’ve learned a lot about the many ways our customers are using BitSight Security Ratings. With over 400 customers (including 42 Fortune 500 companies) and 2,000 users from...
In 2015, many college and universities suffered substantial data breaches. In each case outlined below, universities lost personally-identifiable information (PII) on thousands of individuals, from their student bodies to faculty and...
In today’s cyber threat landscape, organizations must know how secure they are at any given time. One of the most important questions that security professionals and risk managers can ask is “how secure am I right now?”
Last week, it was announced that LoopPay (now a Samsung subsidiary) was the victim of a data breach. LoopPay’s technology is apparently central to Samsung’s mobile payment system, yet Samsung said the breach has not affected the Samsung...
