BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

Today BitSight released a new BitSight Insights Report. Our objective in publishing these reports is to share findings from analysis conducted on the terabytes of security-incident data we gather on a daily basis. Due to our unique...

Originating from the French proclamations of Charles VII’s ascension to the throne after the death of Charles VI, “The King is dead, long live the King” speaks to the inevitability of succession. It is now not a stretch to think about the...

On April 7, the open-source OpenSSL project issued an advisory regarding a critical vulnerability identified as CVE-2014-0160 and called “Heartbleed.” This flaw, which takes advantage of OpenSSL’s heartbeat feature, has been present in...

Today many organizations take a check-box approach to network security. By purchasing security products, meeting compliance standards and performing audits, businesses gain some insight into their security posture and those of third...

Our recent BitSight blog post Cyber Security Risk: Perception versus Reality in Corporate America resonated with many in the infosec community and was even picked up by WIRED’s Innovation Insights and cited in a Forbes article by Howard ...

When third party vendors, partners, processors and contractors find out about a breach of your customers' data, do you know what their notification practices are? Would you be surprised to know that almost a full third of them probably...

In February, BitSight released a new BitSight Insight examining the cyber health of the U.S. economy and found that 82% of the 460 companies assessed had an externally observable security compromise in 2013. Examples of security events...

With the headlines these days filled with news of data breaches - Target, Neiman Marcus, Michaels, to name a few - cyber security is now top of mind among Americans. We know that today every business faces cyber risk, but just how are U.S....