Cyber Risk Rating

January 14, 2020 Panorays Enhances Its Cyber Risk Ratings Product With New Dark Web Monitoring Features

Dark web monitoring for supply chain risk is becoming a mandatory feature for cyber risk ratings providers. Panorays’ latest press release shows that it is catching up to the big players.

January 09, 2020 NormShield Now Allows You to Quantify Supply Chain Risk in Dollars. But Is That a Good Thing?

Normshield recently announced that it has licensed the FAIR model to allow customers to quantify supply chain security risk in terms of financial impacts. It is innovative, but is it useful?

October 04, 2019 BitSight Says Cyber Risk Ratings Are a Good Measure of Internal Risk – Is It Right?

BitSight Enterprise Analytics looks to increase the value proposition of using cyber risk ratings for internal risk management, but are they barking up the wrong tree? If you assume that cyber risk ratings are mostly useful for third-party risk management, you aren’t alone. BitSight is aiming to change that with its new Enterprise Analytics solution, but it may be chasing after the wrong audience.

October 04, 2019 Panorays Gifts Its Customers a Mixed Blessing in Access to Shared Assessments Program Questionnaire

Panorays has announced a partnership with Shared Assessments to provide Panorays customers with access to the Standard Information Standard (SIG) questionnaire. This is an innovative offering but may prove to be a mixed blessing.

March 29, 2019 SecurityScorecard Admits That Third Party Risk Management Is Hard and Announces Professional Advisory Services

SecurityScorecard has announced the availability of new professional advisory services to help customers consume its vendor cyber risk rating product. In doing so, it is tacitly admitting that risk ratings are not the easy solution they’ve been hyped to be.

March 11, 2019 RiskRecon and RSA Announce Partnership to Bring Cyber Risk Ratings to Archer GRC Customers

​RiskRecon and RSA have announced a partnership to bring RiskRecon’s third-party risk rating services to RSA’s Archer Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) system. This should be a welcome move for Archer customers.

March 04, 2019 BitSight Announces New Cyber Risk Score Benchmarking Service

BitSight, one of the leaders in cyber risk rating, has announced a new product to allow organizations to benchmark against their peers. Dubbed “Peer Analytics,” this service will interest companies where benchmarking is a compliance obligation.

February 26, 2019 SecurityScorecard Launches Project Escher to Aid Non-Profits With Vendor Risk Management

SecurityScorecard, a leader in vendor cyber risk rating, has announced an initiative to help non-profit organizations with third-party risk management. Named Project Escher, this initiative demonstrates SecurityScorecard’s commitment to the non-profit sector.