BITSIGHT SECURITY RATINGS BLOG

Cybersecurity is one of the biggest threats to global commerce in the 21st century.

By providing data-driven insights into cybersecurity, we can empower the marketplace to make better, risk-informed decisions and create a more secure...

With the average cost of a data breach in the U.S. reaching nearly $8.6 million, your organization can’t afford to ignore cybersecurity risk. Indeed, the need for security risk management is greater than ever. When cyber risk is managed...

From sensors on the factory floor to those that guide autonomous vehicles, the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how we live and work. Over the coming years, IoT will continue to change our world, with the number of connected...

As time goes on, organizations are taking on more and more new digital transformation initiatives to become increasingly agile and boost productivity — dramatically transforming the number of digital touchpoints employees interact with on...

An effective third party cyber risk management program both identifies potential threats and finds ways to mitigate them. Organizations should aspire to the highest possible standards when it comes to their security posture. To do so, they...

Following an increase in ransomware cyber attacks, most notably May 2017’s WannaCry attack, U.S. public sector entities are starting to see the effects of these attacks on the almost $4 trillion municipal debt market. As a result, issuers...

This year marked another great Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit with over 3,000 attendees, bringing together CEOs, CIOs, CISOs, IT Directors, Risk Managers, and other risk and security professionals to National Harbor, MD from...

Stress and worry are emotions that are often linked with the period between the beginning of a new year and mid-April, the federal tax filing deadline. Modern technology has brought with it techniques and applications that reduce this...

On Thursday, February 23rd, Cloudflare announced a serious bug in its caching infrastructure that caused uninitialized memory to be printed on a number of its customers’ websites. This information included sensitive data such as passwords,...