Why customers choose Bitsight vs. Security Scorecard

In today’s competitive cybersecurity marketplace, there’s always a risk of misinformation amongst options and capabilities.

Forrester Research, Inc., known for its respected, independent research in technology and security, has named Bitsight a Leader in its Forrester Wave™ report for Cybersecurity Risk Ratings. Bitsight earned the highest possible scores across 18 key criteria, solidifying its position as a top choice for organizations seeking robust cyber risk management solutions.

 

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Bitsight vs. Security Scorecard: Capabilities

 

Bitsight

Security Scorecard

Cyber Risk Ratings Platform Leader

 Highest score earned by Forrester Wave, Cyber Risk Ratings Platforms  

 Included in Forrester Wave

External Attack Surface Management Leader

 Placed top right as Leader on Frost Radar™ EASM report, recognized as top 3 in Innovation

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Attack Surface Management Leader

 Recognized by KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Attack Surface Management

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Actionable threat intelligence from across the clear, deep and dark Web

 Real-time cyber threat intelligence 

 Does not offer

Correlation of insights and security rating to real-world outcomes

 Correlated to real-world risk, validated by independent studies from Marsh Mclennan, Moody’s, Gallagher Re and more

  No substantial finding regarding the correlation between data and real-world risk

Comprehensive data collection capabilities

 Bitsight data collection includes proprietary Internet scanner, the largest sinkhole, and other technologies. Scans both the IPv4 and IPv6 web spaces

 Scans only IPv4 web space

Ability to identify and attribute assets across an expanded attack surface

 Comprehensive Exposure Management powered by Bitsight technologies like Groma and GIA. More than 4 billion-plus routable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses scanned daily

 3.9 billion IP addresses scanned every 10 days

Demonstrated return on investment (ROI)

 297% ROI. See the calculator

 176% ROI

R&D, investment in innovation, and product roadmap

 64 patents to date and the largest R&D investment. View latest announcements

 Lists 40 patents

Analytics and insights on the impact of security programs

 Governance and analytics that include detailed industry peer and competitor benchmarking capabilities and root cause reporting

 Compare up to 7 other companies

Remediation plan development to prioritize efforts

 Comprehensive analytics displayed in dashboards within SPM app to help easily identify and prioritize findings to remediate within organizations and their vendor ecosystem. Allows companies to created detailed remediation plans targeting specific risk vectors

 Remediation planning tools are part of Portfolio offerings and are not available in the Watch List feature

Executive reporting: Dashboards and exposure reporting

 30+ pre-designed, out-of-the-box reports communicate ratings and exposure findings and changes. Executive reports include 18 months of data to provide historical context to security performance. Read about external attack surface management 

 Executive reporting provides historical data up to 12 months

Communication, collaboration, and integration with vendors

 Full circle in-platform collaboration with vendors powered by Third-Party Risk Management. Targeted, robust integration portfolio to specifically enhance TPRM and EASM solutions, including:

  • Jira
  • Crowdstrike
  • ServiceNow
  • Splunk
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Archer

 Integration portfolio focuses on diverse options that also include:

  • Jira
  • Crowdstrike
  • ServiceNow
  • Splunk
  • Microsoft Sentinel
Vendor network access

 Vendor network greater than 45,000 and grows 35% YoY. Trust Management Hub enables vendors to securely build a profile to send and receive critical documentation, attestations, and questionnaires

 Unknown vendor network size

Cloud visibility to enhance continuous monitoring

 Bitsight provides enhanced visibility into AWS, GCP, and Azure via Cloud Infrastructure Sync, which can be enabled in about 15 minutes, to maintain up-to-date visibility of cloud assets

 Also offers multi-cloud provider support, but emphasizes AWS for compliance

Customer onboarding and engagement

 Customized experience and plan to maximize program efficiency. Read about onboarding tailored to individual customer needs

 Focuses on standardized process designed for efficiency rather than customer need

Comprehensive strategy, vision, and innovation

 Pioneered and continues to lead the cybersecurity ratings market while also expanding cyber risk management capabilities to include innovative attack surface and threat intelligence solutions. Bitsight received the highest Strategy score in The Forrester Wave. Read our story

 Focuses on enhancing cyber risk measurement capabilities

 

Bitsight vs. Security Scorecard: Customer Reviews

 

Bitsight

Security Scorecard

Gartner
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4.5/5
259 reviews

4.5/5
257 reviews

G2
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4.6/5
39 reviews

4.2/5
75 reviews

The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2024

"[Bitsight] boasts an unmatched commitment to innovation…”; Bitsight “leans heavily into ratings model validation and correlation studies to continuously test its ratings’ alignment with real-world incidents."

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With more than 3,100 customers and 64 patents, Bitsight is a global leader in cyber risk management, specializing in external attack surface managementthird-party risk monitoring, vulnerability detection and response, cybersecurity analytics, and financial risk quantification. Bitsight pioneered the security ratings industry in 2011, and today it’s data scanning capabilities now encompass:

  • 40 million-plus monitored organizations
  • 250 million-plus host names
  • 4 billion-plus routable IP addresses

SecurityScorecard, founded in 2014, is a cybersecurity firm offering security ratings and risk management solutions including continuous monitoring and actionable insights. Products include Supply Chain Detection and Response, External Attack Surface Management, and Cyber Risk Quantification. SecurityScorecard focuses on helping businesses understand and mitigate cyber threats within their operations and supply chains.

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The Bitsight Security Rating provides an objective, data-driven lens to view the health of an organization’s cyber security program.

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, Marsh McLennan, and Moody’s Analytics, demonstrating this critical connection.

Per Moody's Analytics, Bitsight Analytics is also correlated to financial risk and firm value.

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Security leaders need solutions that help them identify and mitigate risks in their own organizations and broader third party supply chain, including vendors, suppliers, and business associates. Attackers continue to exploit known vulnerabilities and target critical third party suppliers to gain access to sensitive data or inflict operational harm. With the growing criticality of cybersecurity risk rating platforms in the global marketplace, trust and data accuracy matters.

Bitsight is committed to creating trustworthy, data-driven, and dynamic measurements of organizational cybersecurity performance derived from objective, verifiable information. In 2017, Bitsight helped create the "Principles for Fair and Accurate Security Ratings,” (PDF) a series of practices developed alongside some of the world’s largest and most risk-focused companies. These Security Ratings Principles affirm the critical role of security ratings in society and the important responsibility that Bitsight holds in creating these measurements.