The Benefits of Doing Regular Cyber Risk Assessments
When it comes to cyber security, there are a few benefits of doing regular cyber risk assessments. Read on for more information.
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How to Answer a Third-Party Security Assessment & Questionnaire
A third-party questionnaire is a list of questions that vendors complete to help organizations understand their vendors’ security posture, vulnerabilities, and compliance with industry standards (including, but not limited to SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.). However, if this questionnaire is completed incorrectly, organizations can face a series of unknown third-party risks.
SecurityScorecard and Netskope Partner to Help Customers Reduce Risk with Their Mission Critical Cloud Applications
Cloud transformation and work from anywhere changed how security needs to work. Surveying done for the Verizon Mobile Security Index showed that 79% of IT and security professionals agree recent changes to working practices had adversely affected their organization’s Cybersecurity. One key reason modern working practices make security more challenging is each new SaaS application adopted by employees expands the attack surface and opens a new door for potential risks.
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Introducing Third-Party Vulnerability Detection
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.
BitSight for Fourth Party Risk Management
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.
Using a Ransomware Assessment to Identify Gaps & Risks
FSIs face a myriad of challenges, and the impact has resulted in a 1,318% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021. Given the increasing sophistication of these attacks, there is a growing need for FSI’s to understand their level of risk and to implement a proactive approach to defending themselves.
Understanding the U.S. State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program
With over 90 thousand different state and local governments across the U.S., creating a unified approach to cybersecurity and defending all of these counties, cities, territories, states, and commonwealths is not only in each of their interests, but the national interest as well.
2022 End of Year Roundup
In recent times it has become clear to organizations that the handling of data is a very important matter, as the exposure or misuse of data are both a serious threat to an organization's financial standing and reputation, and must be accounted for in each organization's risk posture. In terms of high-profile data breaches, this year has been no different than previous years, seeing its fair share of ransomware attacks and data exposure.
Hackers Are Using These 3 Techniques to Bypass MFA
There’s no denying that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an essential security measure that significantly improves an organization’s cyber posture. However, there is no silver bullet in cybersecurity. Though multi-factor authentication proves extremely helpful, determined and resourceful cybercriminals can still find techniques to bypass it. Let’s look at some frequently-used methods cyber-attackers leverage to bypass MFA.