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Bitsight Insights Report Illustrates Why a Single Point of Failure Should Be a Primary Concern for Organizations

Security Ratings Company Expands Product Suite with Bitsight Discover for Risk Aggregation Aimed at Cyber Insurers

Bitsight Technologies, the leader and standard in Security Ratings, today announced 2015 momentum and milestones. The demand for Bitsight Security Ratings in vendor risk management, performance benchmarking, and cyber insurance underwriting has driven the company's tremendous sales growth and product innovation.

Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, today released a new Bitsight Insights report titled, “Peer to Peer Peril: How BitTorrent File Sharing Impacts Vendor Risk and Security Benchmarking,” which examined BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing activity of over 30,700 companies that Bitsight rated for security performance. Bitsight also announced a new file sharing analysis module for the Bitsight Security Ratings Platform that assesses the risk posed by BitTorrent and other file sharing usage among vendors in a supply chain.
Bitsight’s analysis looked at the percentage of P2P downloads containing malware, the top torrented applications an

Annual Bitsight Insights Industry Analysis Report Rates Cyber Security Performance of Finance, Federal Gov

NAFCU Services has selected Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, as a Preferred Partner. Under the agreement, NAFCU’s member credit unions will

Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, today announced that it has closed a $23 million round of Series B financing. Comcast Ve

Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, today announced it has been included in Gartner’s list of “Cool Vendors” in Vendor Management for 2015. The report identifies technology vendors that have a strong market vision and offer unique and innovative products and services that have a real market impact. 
“With increased regulatory scrutiny on vendor risk management, heavily publicized outages and instances of data loss and data breach, vendor risk and performance management activities have heightened in impor

Trust, but Verify: The Evolution of Vendor Risk Management in Financial Institutions      
This presentation will explore the evolving regulatory landscape regarding Vendor Risk Management (VRM), and the practices organizations are adopting to meet more stringent demands. Attendees will learn why continuous monitoring of vendor security performance is both critical and achievable, through the use of data-driven, evidence-based security ratings and how this approach has leveled the playing field in vendor management. This session will also incl

Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, today released a new Bitsight Insights report titled, “Beware the Botnets: Botnets Correlated to a Higher Likelih

Date: March 3, 2015
Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, today announced results from a commissioned study, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Bitsight, that reveals third-party security as a top business concern for enterprises. The findings suggest a significant appetite for monitoring third-party security but a steep disconnect in resources available to adequa

Date: March 3, 2015
Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, today announced significant enhancements to its innovative Security Ratings product line. The update expands the breadth of data available, enhances integrations with existing tools and processes, and positions Bitsight as the most comprehensive Security Ratings platform on the market. 
“The Bitsight Platform provides independent and objectiv

Date: August 21, 2014Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, today released a new Bitsight Insights report titled, “Powerhouses and Benchwarmers: Assessing Cyber Security Performance of Collegiate Athletic Conferences,” which uncovers quantifiable differences in security performance across collegiate athletic conferences from July 2013 through July 2014. The report reveals that as a sector, the nation’s top schools are at even greater risk for security breaches than retail and healthcare. 



“From social security and credit card numbers to health records and intellectual property produced by research departments, colleges and universities house a vast amount of sensitive data. While not surprising given the uniq

Date: January 27, 2015



Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ra