BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

In today’s evolving cyber risk landscape, Boards of Directors are becoming increasingly concerned about their company’s security performance. In fact, the NACD has found that 89% of public companies and 72% of private companies regularly...

Quantifying and tracking your cybersecurity performance so you can compare your organization to others, also known as benchmarking, is necessary to improving the effectiveness of your security programs.

As a member of your company’s board, you know that cybersecurity is a critical risk that simply cannot be ignored, and that should be reported on regularly by the appropriate executives. According to the 2017NACD Director’s Handbook on...

Last week, BitSight released our new Security Rating Snapshot report.

In 2015, BitSight published a report, Beware the Botnets: Botnets Correlated to a Higher Likelihood of a Significant Breach. In that report, researchers discovered that companies with botnet grades of ‘B’ or lower were more than twice as...

PwC recently published The Global State of Information Security Survey 2016, which highlights security trends in a number of industries and key themes across all industries.

There are many different metrics that the CISO or CIO collects to measure the performance and effectiveness of its cybersecurity program. But only a select number of these metrics hold enough weight to be reported to the C-suite. The...

Assessing the security performance of your vendors and third parties is crucial considering the amount of access to sensitive information we grant to these partners. However, for those assessments to be effective, and for you to actually...

In late January, Anthem announced that it had been breached, compromising data from80 million people. It is the largest publicly-disclosed breach of a healthcare company.