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Forecasting and Advanced Analytics: Building a Solid Security Strategy For 2020

2020 is not only the beginning of a new year, but the start of a new decade, and with it comes the dawn of a new era for the digital world. We’re now in the midst of the once far-off, “futuristic” time periods old books and movies used to...

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BitSight Honored as CRN® Tech Innovator Award Winner

In recognition of our groundbreaking innovation and true differentiation in serving the IT channel, we’re proud to announce that the BitSight Peer Analytics solution has been selected as a winner in the CRN 2019 Tech Innovator Awards.

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Third-Party Insight into Triada & Related Families

A few weeks ago Google confirmed that there was malware pre-installed on a number of Android devices due to a supply-chain attack. The latest installment was discovered by security researchers from Dr.Web who have been investigating this...

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Data Insights on the BlueKeep Vulnerability

On May 14th, Microsoft issued a warning about the BlueKeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) affecting Remote Desktop Services Protocol (RDP), a component common in most versions of Microsoft Windows that allows remote access to its graphical...

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BitSight Security Ratings Platform Expands Its Visibility in Compromised Systems

Since creating the Security Ratings market in 2011, a core component of BitSight’s value to users has been providing industry-leading comprehensive visibility into malware communications.

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Fraudulent Android Advertising SDK Installed In Over 15 Million Devices

Every day, BitSight monitors the global threat landscape in a constant effort to identify software that may be placing users and organizations at risk. The presence of malware — or simply potentially unwanted applications — in an...

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Advanced Security Benchmarking with BitSight Peer Analytics

On March 4th, BitSight released  Peer Analytics, the newest advanced analytics module from the leader in security ratings. This allows organizations to better understand and manage their security performance in relation to their industry...
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What’s Behind Your Risk Matrix?

This quarter, BitSight released several new product features that enable organizations to more rapidly assess, prioritize and manage cyber risk. These new capabilities — the Portfolio Risk Matrix and Asset Risk Matrix — leverage BitSight’s

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Cybersecurity in Europe is Improving: Thank You GDPR?

After years of debate over whether to impose new cybersecurity regulations on companies,  General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws went into effect in Europe in May 2018. Already we’ve seen several data breach victims ordered to pay...

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