BitSight Risk Review

In this episode, Brian Cohen (CFO, BitSight) and Dave Fachetti (CMO & EVP of Strategy, BitSight) discuss their involvement sitting on and reporting to various Boards of Directors, what executive teams are looking for when it comes to cybersecurity programs, and how to best communicate cyber risk to executives and the Board.

In this episode, Tom Zinzi (Federal Sales Manager, BitSight) breaks down the results and implications from a recent BitSight Insights report which analyzes the security posture of US government contractors and subcontractors. Given that 50% of data breaches happen through third parties, US government agencies must ensure that their cybersecurity practices are not at risk due to their contractors and subcontractors.

Listen as Tom discusses the importance of vendor risk management and continuous monitoring in the federal space, and best practices to proactively mitigate federal risk using Security Ratings.

In this episode, Noah Simon, Product Marketing Manager at BitSight, discusses the common "blind spots" associated with vendor risk management (VRM) or third-party risk management (TPRM). Listen now to learn more about mitigating the risk from third-party vendors, several misconceptions surrounding VRM /TPRM, and how to proactively create a strategy to avoid common pitfalls.

In this episode, Joao Gouveia, CTO of Anubis Networks (a BitSight company), calls into the show to discuss Anubis' sinkholing infrastructure. Listen now to learn more about sinkholes, what makes Anubis' sinkholing infrastructure the largest in the world, and why this matters to the industry at large.

In this episode, we talk with Jake Olcott, BitSight's VP of Communications & Government Affairs, about the cybersecurity regulation landscape today and the impact it can have on organizations building or operating their vendor risk management programs.

Listen now to hear more about notable and emerging cybersecurity regulations, how to build a vendor risk management program around them, and what businesses can expect from regulators in the upcoming months.

In this episode, we talk with Kevin Amorin, BitSight's Director of Engineering, about BitSight's recent milestone of hand mapping security information for over 100,000 human-validated organizations.

Listen now to hear about the evolution of BitSight's technical research and mapping teams, understand why BitSight has the most high-quality data ecosystem, and what sets our process apart from other security rating services.

Welcome to the inaugural installment of the BitSight Risk Review!

In this episode, BitSight's CTO and Co-Founder, Stephen Boyer, discusses how Security Ratings can help proactively mitigate risk in today's business ecosystem. Listen now to hear how Security Ratings can help organizations and cyber insurers reduce risk. Using security ratings, companies can scale their vendor risk management programs, benchmark their performance against industry peers, report security progress and results to Boards of Directors more clearly and effectively, and measure the cybersecurity performance of potential acquisition targets or portfolio companies.