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Marsh McLennan, the world’s largest insurance broker, recently studied whether Bitsight’s cybersecurity performance analytics are useful in understanding the likelihood of experiencing a cybersecurity incident. The findings were significant: Marsh McLennan found 14 Bitsight analytics to be significantly correlated with cybersecurity incidents.

Recent events have made cybersecurity a top concern among C-suite executives. The SolarWinds breach, Capital One incident, and Colonial Pipeline attack are just a few of the noteworthy events that have made CEOs and CFOs take active roles in discussions around risk mitigation.

When it comes to improving cybersecurity at your organization, there are some fixes that you can undertake with very little preparation. More robust remediation efforts, however, usually start with a cybersecurity risk assessment.

As cyberattacks against cloud services and infrastructure increase, follow these best practices to improve your cloud security posture management.

We look at five ways you can reduce cyber threats without putting additional pressure on stretched resources.

A majority of boards now see cyber risk as business risk, so they’re asking hard questions around risk and exposure. Security leaders must have processes in place to inform and educate executives, boards, and stakeholders as to the security posture of the organization as well as the postures of important third parties.

The term “digital resilience” has gained momentum over the past few years as cybersecurity threats have grown, but what does it really mean? And how can a company become digitally resilient?

Bitsight & Diligent launch extension partnership focused on correlated, independent, & comparable cyber ratings within Diligent’s Board Reporting for IT Risk.

Security performance management (SPM) helps security and risk leaders take a risk-based, outcome-driven approach to assessing and managing the performance of their organization’s cybersecurity program. With SPM, security leaders can continuously monitor and assess their organization’s current security state, analyze how security performance ranks against industry and peers, and create improvement plans that reduce cyber risk. 

Cybersecurity intelligence is a powerful weapon against risk. Learn how you can improve your cyber data collection, analysis, and sharing to mitigate emerging threats.

As the attack surface expands, vulnerability management offers a strategic approach to manage exposure and remediate on time. Here's what you need to know.

If your organization is like many others, its cyber exposure continues to grow over time. During the pandemic, as attackers sought to exploit unprecedented changes in work environments, 35% of cyberattacks used previously unseen malware or methods, up from the norm of 20%. And with the average enterprise using well over 1,000 cloud services, it can be very difficult to get a handle on potential vulnerabilities or to know when risks will pop up.

The financial services sector is one of the highest performing in terms of cybersecurity. One factor that contributes to this performance is regulation.

As cyber security threats proliferate, cyber risk conversations are no longer limited to the Security Operations Center (SOC); they command the attention of the C-suite and the boardroom.

Glass Lewis is partnering with Bitsight to help investors tackle the significant and constantly changing challenge of understanding cybersecurity risk.