Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

As a security data nerd I am absolutely spoiled here at Bitsight. So much so that I have to stop myself from doing little projects and requests so I can dive into the “big” stuff1. So it is always refreshing when folks see a piece of research and decide “hey can you give me more information on my little corner of the world.” Then of course and can throw off those notions of “stopping” and just dive back in.

One of the primary reasons that the Bitsight Security Rating is widely respected and closely correlated with real-world security outcomes is the scale and sophistication of our asset attribution capabilities. In a recent post, my colleague Francisco Ferreira shared an update on the momentum building with Bitsight Graph of Internet Assets (GIA), the AI-powered engine we use to map assets to organizations and build our Ratings Trees.

The security world is awash in acronyms. As a niche in the security world, vulnerability, tracking, measurement, and management is no stranger to inscrutable collections of capital letters. We’ve got NVD, CPE, CWE, CVSS, EPSS, CAPEC, KEV, and of course “CVE”. The key goal of all these frameworks is to try to help folks organize information around vulnerabilities and assess how their presence might increase an organization's exposure.

Security ratings are a data-driven, dynamic measurement of an organization's cyber security performance that can be used to understand and influence internal and third-party cyber risk. Sometimes referred to as cybersecurity ratings, these quantitative metrics give security teams a simple indicator of security performance across their own organization, as well as the security posture of the third-party organizations they rely on.

In today's digital age, web applications are the backbone of many businesses, supporting and managing a vast array of sensitive information, from personal details and financial records to critical business data. When we think about any company that we want to know more about, the most common question is: “what is their website”? But web applications are not just about traditional websites, they encompass far more than just the pages you go to when browsing the Internet.

Over the last month there have been some updates about the mysterious 7777 botnet—which was first mentioned in this post in October 2023. Until now, it was known that the botnet was made up of TP-LINK routers and that it was being used to execute very low volume and controlled brute force attacks on Microsoft 365 services targeting corporate accounts. In our continuous efforts to have all sorts of malware families under our radar, the 7777 botnet is no exception.

Last month, my colleague Arzu Ozbek Akay shared some insights about the impact that Bitsight Groma, our next-generation scanner, is already having on our products. Today, I’m going to follow that up with an update on the momentum we’re seeing with the second core component of our data engine: Bitsight Graph of Internet Assets (GIA). As a quick refresher, GIA uses advanced graph technology and AI models to map assets to specific organizations and build Ratings Trees at a global scale.

On April 9, 2024, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced its intention to implement a cybersecurity rating system for companies by fiscal year 2025.

When a new major CVE gets released, cybersecurity companies race to discover ways of detecting the new vulnerability and organizations scramble to determine if they are impacted or not. Developing high-confidence techniques to scan the public-facing Internet assets for newly published vulnerabilities can potentially take weeks or even months as vulnerability researchers discover and test various detection methods.

The path to NIS2 compliance is less about ticking boxes and more about fostering a resilient, proactive cybersecurity culture across the organisation and its extended network. While the challenges pertaining to third-party and supply chain risk management are significant, they are not insurmountable—especially if we break them down. Today we will focus on understanding a very specific NIS2 requirement: Coordinated Risk Assessments.