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By Sean Kaine
Do you know what percentage of your vendors are at higher risk of ransomware attack? Can you drill-in to see exactly who? Or more importantly, why? Or how effective your vendor program has been in reducing risk to the business over the last 12 months? In the ever-connected world of partners and suppliers, vendors and even more vendors, the line between ‘their risk’ and ‘your risk’ disappeared. And what security and compliance teams need more of is not more data, but insights.
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By Sabrina Pagnotta
The emergence of cyber risk regulations like DORA, NIS2, and PS21/3 signals an imperative need for resilience. In a world where digital disruptions can cripple nations and economies, the industry needed a shift from reactive defence to proactive fortification. CISOs that demonstrate strong cybersecurity leadership, aligning with broader business objectives and proving a positive impact on the organization's bottom line, are better positioned to build trust with stakeholders and minimize cyber risks.
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By Kaitlyn Graham
Cybersecurity readiness is the ability to identify, prevent, and respond to cyber threats. Yet despite the daily headlines and warnings, organizations struggle to achieve cybersecurity readiness. Just look at the statistics: 78% of senior IT and security leaders lack confidence in their company’s security posture. And, despite increased investments in cybersecurity controls, nearly 80% believe their organization lacks sufficient cybersecurity protections.
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By BitSight
Bitsight today announced its participation in the Microsoft Security Copilot Partner Private Preview. Bitsight was selected based on their proven experience with Microsoft Security technologies, willingness to explore and provide feedback on cutting edge functionality, and close relationship with Microsoft.
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By Sabrina Pagnotta
Amid a rise in regulatory pressure for cybersecurity leaders in Europe, with DORA and NIS2 as the most recent examples, cyber risk analytics are emerging as an instrumental tool in ensuring compliance. And there’s evidence that proves it.
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By Kaitlyn Graham
Adaptive security is an approach to cybersecurity that helps your Security Operations Center (SOC) quickly adapt to the latest threats. By implementing adaptive security, your organization can evaluate and analyze behaviors and events in real-time to take preventative action before a breach.
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By Michael Hoffman
Moody’s investment in Bitsight in 2021 was founded on the belief that cyber risk is business risk. Two years later - this foundational belief is clearer than ever by evidence of recent research developed by the two companies. This blog post is a reflection on the research progress made by the two firms since the announcement of the partnership.
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By Threat Research Team
Proxy services offer users the ability to rent a set of IP addresses for internet use, granting a level of online anonymity. Essentially, they make your internet traffic appear as if it's coming from a regular IP address while keeping the real origin hidden. Recently, our Threat Research team discovered a new malware sample, distributed by the PrivateLoader and Amadey loaders.
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By Brian Thomas
If you’re developing a vendor risk management (VRM) plan from scratch or looking to scale your existing program, a cybersecurity IT risk assessment template can help you get started. Fortunately, you have options. In this blog, we’ve listed several templates, frameworks, and checklists that can help you create a personalized vendor cybersecurity IT risk assessment questionnaire.
Cybersecurity is a top risk for corporate directors to understand and navigate. The implications of cyber events for a company are many and growing: instantly damaged reputations that erode years of credibility and trust with customers and investors, impaired profitability from customer attrition and increased operating costs, lost intellectual property, fines and litigation, and harm to a company’s people and culture.
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By BitSight
Bitsight Third-Party Vulnerability Response empowers organizations to take action on high-priority incidents at a moment’s notice. Learn how to initiate vendor outreach and track responses to critical vulnerabilities through scalable templated questionnaires—with tailored exposure evidence— for more effective remediation. And grow and build trust across your ecosystem without worrying about expanded risk.
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By BitSight
Bitsight Third-Party Vulnerability Response empowers organizations to take action on high priority incidents at a moments notice. Learn how to initiate vendor outreach and track responses to critical vulnerabilities through scalable templated questionnaires —with tailored exposure evidence— for more effective remediation. And grow and build trust across your ecosystem without worrying about expanded risk. Vulnerability Response not only facilitates communication with vendors but also allows you to track responses with more precision, coupling automated, bulk outreach with status updates and insights.
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By BitSight
Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Companies rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss. Built on over a decade of technological innovation, its integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.
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By BitSight
Learn how Bitsight Third-Party Vulnerability Detection empowers third-party risk professionals to find and remediate threats - including major security events - more quickly within their vendor portfolio. Identify exposure and mitigate risk more easily with critical insights into the impact on your organization’s third parties.
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By BitSight
Learn how BitSight for Fourth-Party Risk Management, helps you uncover deep insights into the most crucial and concentrated risk in your extended vendor network so you can proactively manage and remediate risk. With our latest enhancements, you can address concentrated risk within your extended vendor network in a more scalable and efficient way.
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By BitSight
Learn how customers are seeing value not only from our tactical execution of customer TPRM programs but how we can better contextualize information for executive and board level stakeholders.
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By BitSight
Learn about the benefits of our sourcing part of your TPRM program through leveraging experts in the industry and learning best practices to get your program up and running in an effective manner.
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By BitSight
Learn about third-party risk management foundational elements and the 5 lifecycle stages that organizations go through with their vendors, including how it works in practice.
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By BitSight
Cybersecurity ROI isn't about cost savings. It's about how your cybersecurity program helps you achieve your goals while managing risk to a level that your executive team is comfortable with. So if you shouldn't measure success in cost savings, how do you measure it? BitSight is providing five steps that help CISOs and executive teams evaluate their company's cybersecurity performance.
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By BitSight
Are you overwhelmed by the intricacies of your attack surface? Concerned about the rising risk of vulnerabilities in your and your partners' digital ecosystems? New BitSight research finds that the average vulnerability remediation rate across organizations is about 5 percent per month, sparking concern that the status quo of exposure and vulnerability management is broken. Moreover, organizations face significant challenges in managing vulnerabilities in their extended, third-party ecosystem, and most security leaders do not have the tools to address these emerging threats.
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By BitSight
Traditional vendor risk management programs are not effective at mitigating risk in ever-expanding third-party networks, and yet 69% of businesses still rely on manual processes. It's time to take your program to the next level. How can you centralize, automate, and streamline your process to manage hundreds of vendors as effectively as you manage ten? Scalable VRM continuously detects, monitors, and mitigates risk, going beyond due diligence and initial assessments to constantly reassess and proactively act on vendor risk.
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By BitSight
Stop reacting to cyber risk as it comes. BitSight for Security Performance Management empowers security leaders to strengthen cyber resilience over time with objective, meaningful, and evidence-based metrics. Gain insights, drive decisions, and build confidence with our suite of advanced analytics.
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Bitsight is a cyber risk management leader transforming how companies manage exposure, performance, and risk for themselves and their third parties. Global enterprises, governments, and organizations rely on Bitsight to prioritize their cybersecurity investments, build greater trust within their ecosystem, and reduce their chances of financial loss. When unrelenting market pressure pushes organizations to uncertainty and caution, they turn to Bitsight to confidently navigate cyber risk and grow with confidence.
Bitsight's universally recognized risk standard and market-leading data provides actionable insights into how companies set and manage to standards and report results to internal and external stakeholders. Built on over a decade of technological innovation, Bitsight's integrated solutions deliver value across enterprise security performance, digital supply chains, cyber insurance, and data analysis.
Bitsight is on a mission to free the global economy from the material impact of cyber incidents.