BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

Today BitSight published our third annual industry benchmarking report: Are Energy and Utilities At Risk of a Major Breach? This report illustrates the latest security performance of the Finance, Federal Government, Retail, Energy and...

When most people think about mitigating cyber risk from their business service providers, they usually think of their banks, IT service providers, or their software manufacturers.

Today, we are pleased to announce that NAFCU Services has selected BitSight as a Preferred Partner, giving its member credit unions access to BitSight Security Ratings. The partnership is very timely: credit unions have been increasingly...

Today, BitSight is excited to announce that we have raised $23 million in Series B funding. The additional funding will allow BitSight to keep hiring exceptional talent, as well as extend sales and marketing initiatives in Europe and in...

In April, we published a report Beware the Botnets: Botnets Correlated to a Higher Likelihood of a Significant Breach. In this report, we found that companies with botnet grades of ‘B’ or below were more than twice as likely to experience...

Last week, BitSight co-sponsored a webinar with Advisen on the use of risk mitigation services for cyber insurance underwriting. Ira Scharf, GM of Cyber Insurance at BitSight, joined Tracie Grella of AIG and Neeraj Sanhi of Willis Group to...

Recent breaches making headlines all share a troubling characteristic. In each breach detailed below, the intrusions of company networks lasted months - or in other cases, even longer than a year. While no company is impervious to a...

Third party breaches still account for a large percentage of security incidents. In fact, according to this year's Verizon DBIR report, in 70% of attacks where there was a known motive, a secondary victim was involved. These victims could...

For years, it has been widely-known that the Utilities industry has struggled with cyber security in relation to other industries. In 2014, Unisys and the Ponemon Institute found that 70% of Utility companies surveyed around the world had...