What is the Bitsight security rating?
What is the Bitsight security rating?
The Bitsight Security Rating is a powerful tool used by security and risk leaders to assess, monitor, prioritize, and communicate cyber risk. It provides an objective, data-driven lens to view the health of an organization’s cyber security program.
Who uses security ratings.
From boardrooms to credit agencies, insurers to regulators, compliance officers to SOC analysts, Bitsight Security Ratings are woven into the fabric of global commerce. Cyber risk IS business risk. And the Bitsight Security Rating is the universal language used to communicate it.
Security and risk teams
use them to understand exposure and hidden risk
Security and risk teams
use them to understand exposure and hidden risk
GRC teams
leverage them to monitor the health of their digital supply chain
GRC teams
leverage them to monitor the health of their digital supply chain
Third party risk teams
use them to assess and manage risk across their vendor portfolio
Third party risk teams
use them to assess and manage risk across their vendor portfolio
Board of directors
use them to assess the performance of cybersecurity programs
Board of directors
use them to assess the performance of cybersecurity programs
Investors
use them to prioritize investments and evaluate risk in their portfolio
Investors
use them to prioritize investments and evaluate risk in their portfolio
Cyber insurers
use them to underwrite policies and assess risk across the portfolio
Cyber insurers
use them to underwrite policies and assess risk across the portfolio
Financial institutions
use them as they evaluate risk and capital allocation
Financial institutions
use them as they evaluate risk and capital allocation
Government agencies
use them to assess the security posture of entities in their organization
Government agencies
use them to assess the security posture of entities in their organization
Categories of Risk
Bitsight categorizes cyber risk data into four primary categories as part of the collection and verification process.
Compromised
Systems
Indicates the presence of malware or unwanted software, which is evidence of security controls failing to prevent malicious or unwanted software from running within an organization.
Compromised
Systems
Indicates the presence of malware or unwanted software, which is evidence of security controls failing to prevent malicious or unwanted software from running within an organization.
Organizational
Diligence
Externally observable data about how servers and records in an organization are configured and provides insight into the security hygiene of an organization.
Organizational
Diligence
Externally observable data about how servers and records in an organization are configured and provides insight into the security hygiene of an organization.
User
Behaviors
Employee activities that may introduce risks into an organization's networks, such as sharing files over BitTorrent and determining if employees are re-using corporate login credentials outside of the corporate network.
User
Behaviors
Employee activities that may introduce risks into an organization's networks, such as sharing files over BitTorrent and determining if employees are re-using corporate login credentials outside of the corporate network.
Public
Disclosures
Information related to possible incidents of undesirable access to a company’s data, including breaches, general security incidents, and other disclosures.
Public
Disclosures
Information related to possible incidents of undesirable access to a company’s data, including breaches, general security incidents, and other disclosures.
Transparency
We build trust through transparency.
Security Ratings Principles
Bitsight is committed to the “Principles for Fair and Accurate Security Ratings,” a series of practices developed alongside industry leaders to achieve transparency and trust in security ratings.
Read more about trusted ratings →
Bitsight Knowledge Base
The Bitsight Knowledge Base provides transparency on the methodologies, algorithms, calculations on other information regarding Bitsight’s cyber security rating
Dispute and Appeal
The Bitsight Policy Review Board (PRB) is a committee created to govern the ratings algorithm and associated policies, and to ensure that they are aligned with our principles.
Read more on The Bitsight Policy Review Board (PRB) →
It's not only you. Your vendor risk matters.
It's not only you. Your vendor risk matters.
The enterprise attack surface doesn’t end at the corporate firewall. As integration with more vendors accelerates, so too does the risk. The Bitsight Security Rating helps leaders see and take action on the third parties that introduce exposure for the enterprise.
See what others see.
See your rating
Get a snapshot of your organization’s cybersecurity program, including your Bitsight Security Rating and a benchmark of how you compare to industry peers.
See your rating
Get a snapshot of your organization’s cybersecurity program, including your Bitsight Security Rating and a benchmark of how you compare to industry peers.
See your vendors' rating
Get a sneak peek at the impact third party risk management insights and reporting can have on the performance of your security program.
See your vendors' rating
Get a sneak peek at the impact third party risk management insights and reporting can have on the performance of your security program.
How the Bitsight Security Rating is created.
Collect and Aggregate
Collect and Aggregate
We ingest over 400 billion events every day into Bitsight’s Cyber Risk Analytics Engine, leveraging a variety of tools and techniques including:
- Crawlers
- Sinkholes
- P2P network monitoring
- Honeypots
- BitTorrent monitoring
- Spam traps
- Darknet traffic monitoring
Our data collection methods continuously evolve to help you outpace the expanding threat landscape.
Map and Attribute
Map and Attribute
We then meticulously map our findings to entities to accurately build an organization’s network footprint. This includes:
- Company relationships
- Asset mapping
- IP and CIDR block mapping
- DNS mapping
- IP address mapping
- Subsidiary attribution
We monitor over 40 million organizations and maps 1 million entities.
Weight and Grade
Weight and Grade
Our threat research analysts apply a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence (HUMINT) to assess across risk vectors that have a known correlation to breach. We review things like:
- Botnet infections
- Spam infections
- Malware server
- PUPs , PUAS
- Pathing cadence
- TLS and SSL certificate config
- Open ports
- Software versioning
Calculate Rating
Calculate Rating
The final step is to communicate risk through a simple-to-consume rating on a scale from 300-820, analogous to a credit score. Letter grades are provided as well to provide an understanding of how a company is performing in each risk vector.
What makes the Bitsight Rating so special?
What makes the Bitsight Rating so special?
Bitsight data is independently verified to correlate with an organization’s risk of a security incident or data breach. See reports by AIR Worldwide, IHS Markit, and Moody’s Analytics, demonstrating this critical connection.
