Overview

BitSight Security Ratings provide technology companies with objective, data-driven insights into their cybersecurity performance. By continuously analyzing vast amounts of external data, BitSight enables organizations to quantify cyber risk, benchmark security efforts, and enhance risk management strategies. This proactive approach helps technology firms protect their intellectual property, ensure business continuity, and maintain stakeholder trust.

Features and Capabilities

• Continuous Monitoring: BitSight offers real-time, automated assessments of an organization's security posture, enabling continuous monitoring and proactive risk management.
• Objective Security Ratings: Utilizing externally observable, non-intrusive data, BitSight generates daily security ratings ranging from 250 to 900, providing a measurable range of risk.
• Risk Vector Analysis: The platform evaluates over 20 risk vectors, including compromised systems, security diligence, user behavior, and publicly disclosed security incidents, to deliver a comprehensive view of an organization's cybersecurity posture.
• Benchmarking: Organizations can compare their security performance against industry peers, facilitating the identification of areas for improvement and the setting of achievable security goals.
• Third-Party Risk Management: BitSight assesses the cybersecurity posture of vendors and business partners, ensuring supply chain security and compliance with industry standards.
• Incident Response Planning: The platform provides actionable insights and recommendations for incident response planning, helping organizations effectively meet incident reporting obligations.
• Regulatory Compliance Support: BitSight's comprehensive cybersecurity ratings evaluate an organization's security controls and help measure compliance with regulatory requirements, such as NIS 2 standards.
• Forecasting and Scenario Analysis: Security leaders can use BitSight Forecasting to run multiple remediation scenarios, focusing efforts on work that will have the greatest impact on the organization’s overall security performance.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: By translating complex security risk issues into business context, BitSight enables organizations to make more informed decisions regarding cybersecurity investments and risk mitigation strategies.