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To improve cyber resilience, you must first measure it. Learn the 4 metrics to track to gain insights into your cybersecurity posture.

Traditional vendor risk management methods fail to capture new and evolving risks. Learn how a better approach to VRM can benefit your organization.

Learn how to centralize, automate, and streamline your VRM process to manage hundreds of vendors as effectively as you manage ten.

What risks do mobile apps present to your business and how can you get ahead of these threats?

Learn what three key metrics can help you create a cybersecurity board report that tells a good story and resonates with your board.

We explore the most common security questionnaires and how to integrate them into your overall VRM process.

These questions will help you choose the best VRM tool that will take your program to the next level.

Your interconnected supply chain needs trust in you, and you in them. But how can you build trust when visibility is low and resources are limited?

New outsourcing opportunities may present as you build next year’s strategy, making Vendor Risk Management (VRM) critical for three main reasons.

Wondering how to leverage your remaining funds? As you decide how to use your end of year budget, ask yourself these questions.

Working from home introduces significant cyber risk to any organization. However, recent events reveal that it’s not a case of “if” but “when” bad actors will exploit the rampant vulnerabilities on home networks.

2020 is not only the beginning of a new year, but the start of a new decade, and with it comes the dawn of a new era for the digital world. We’re now in the midst of the once far-off, “futuristic” time periods old books and movies used to dream about. But does your security performance management strategy match the functionality of today’s technology? 

When it comes to managing your organization’s cybersecurity performance, understanding the business context in which you make decisions is key. By leveraging security ratings you can understand the efficacy of your current security program, identify control gaps and/or failures, and determine the best allocation of resources that will lead to overall process improvement. With this level of visibility, security and risk leaders can now lead more data-driven conversations around cybersecurity with internal and external stakeholders about important security initiatives and feel more confident in the investments they are making in their security programs.It’s critical that security leaders understand how to prioritize their efforts. Bitsight for security performance management allows you to easily examine the importance of an event based on both asset importance and event severity. And now with Bitsight’s new integration between the Asset Risk Matrix and the Bitsight Forecasting engine — any security team can quickly assess the expected impact of their efforts based on Bitsight’s recommended remediation plan.

When it comes to security performance management within your organization, how do your security teams measure performance? If they’re using security ratings, they know that this objective, quantitative measurement is an effective place to start when evaluating performance in certain areas.

For the last five years, Bitsight Security Ratings have been helping companies gain insight into the efficacy of their security programs, as well as the security performance of third and fourth party vendors. Today, the Bitsight Security Rating platform provides a year’s worth of data on all companies to paint a comprehensive picture of a company’s security posture over time.