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By Pedro Umbelino
In the spring of 2024, amid growing international concern about supply chain risk and the trust and reliability of technology suppliers, the United States banned Kaspersky Lab, Inc., the Russia-based antivirus company from providing its products to the US market. The ban went into effect on September 30, 2024. What impact has the ban had on US and global usage of Kaspersky? Has it been effective? A new analysis from Bitsight contains some surprising results.
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By Nicole Matusek
In an era where digital resilience is vital to corporate health, cybersecurity is a critical governance issue. The partnership between Bitsight and Glass Lewis underscores this reality by providing companies with a forward-thinking approach to assessing cybersecurity as part of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations.
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By Pedro Falé
Imagine this: you're at home, eagerly waiting for the new device you ordered from Amazon. The package arrives, you power it on, and start enjoying all the benefits of 21st century technology—unaware that, as soon as you powered it on, a scheme was unfolding within this device. Welcome to the world of BADBOX. BADBOX is a large-scale cybercriminal operation selling off-brand Android TV boxes, smartphones, and other Android electronics with preinstalled malware. What does this mean?
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By Chris Poulin
This is a continuation of our series on web application security. If you haven't already read through parts 1 and 2, this is a good time to go back. If not, let's move on and answer the question left hanging during our last installment: what are request methods, including the POST request method, and how does logging out of a website work when it comes to cookies and session IDs? Let's also tackle the more important issue of how to combat cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.
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By Steve Harvey
Today, I am thrilled to announce the official closing of Bitsight’s acquisition of Cybersixgill, a leading provider of cyber threat intelligence solutions. This is not only a pivotal step in our long-term vision—it’s a reinforcement of our promise to help each and every one of our customers to make smarter, faster risk decisions. Bitsight was founded on the belief that cyber risk is not binary.
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By Sofia Lourenço
Enterprise security is a job that is never truly done. Success comes down to prioritizing high-impact activities, executing them efficiently, and adapting as new information emerges. Bitsight Security Performance Management (SPM) is the centerpiece of this lifecycle for many organizations. It helps security teams understand their external attack surface in detail and make data-driven decisions about how to apply their limited resources most effectively.
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By Sabrina Pagnotta
SOC 2 compliance is no longer optional—it’s essential to a robust cybersecurity posture and cyber risk management strategy. It’s a key indicator of an organization’s commitment to securing data and maintaining operational resilience. In this blog, we’ll offer insights and recommendations to help your organization stay ahead as part of your overarching cybersecurity compliance strategy.
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By Arzu Ozbek Akay
Thousands of organizations globally rely on the Bitsight Security Rating to prioritize their internal security efforts and ensure that third-party vendors meet their security commitments. While this is a highly strategic activity, progress is often measured in incremental steps as individual security findings are remediated over time.
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By Bitsight TRACE
A year ago, Bitsight TRACE published a blog post on Socks55Systemz,a proxy malware with minimal mentions in the threat intelligence community at the time. In that post, we correlated a Telegram user to the botnet operation and estimated its size at around 10,000 compromised systems. After a year-long investigation, we are shedding new light on these conclusions.
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By Francisco Fonseca
NIS2 is a transformative directive reshaping how organizations across Europe and the globe approach cybersecurity, supply chain management, and operational resilience. A lot has been written about compliance strategies, but what does NIS2 mean in practice? We’ve asked the Institut Luxembourgeois de Régulation (ILR), Luxembourg’s national regulatory authority responsible for overseeing the implementation and enforcement of NIS2 in the country.
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By BitSight
From day one, Bitsight makes a lasting impression with its welcoming culture, innovative spirit, and a team driven to make an impact.
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By BitSight
What do lemons and botnets have in common? You’ll have to watch to find out! Check out Ben Edwards in this week’s reel for a fresh take on cyber threats.
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By BitSight
It's again! And this week, we're spicing up Cybersecurity Awareness Month with a fresh take on software updates. Don’t let outdated tech be the mold on your kohlrabi recipe! Watch now & join us next week for more insights.
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By BitSight
Are you aware of cybersecurity? Well, October means you should be—it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Ben Edwards from the Bitsight TRACE security research team is here to make sure of it! Watch Ben break it down in his first video, and tune in next week for more of his insights.
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By BitSight
When was the last time you checked your blinker fluid? Keeping up with car maintenance is key—but so is understanding ICS security! Ben Edwards is back with another video, and this week he's breaking down vulnerable ATG systems. Don’t miss it! Join us as we continue leading the way to a secure world, one reel at a time.
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By BitSight
Exposure management tooling can act as an excellent source of truth for cybersecurity leaders as they communicate risk up to the board level. The visibility and data streaming from exposure management solutions makes it easier for CISOs to track security performance over time, quantify improvements in security maturity levels, establish better financial quantification of cyber risk and ensure the organization's exposure levels match up with industry averages.
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By BitSight
Learn about our Continuous Monitoring Service offering where we help organizations manage their third-party ecosystem to prioritize critical vendors, work to collaborate with vendors on remediation plans and to monitor and report on vendor performance over time.
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By BitSight
Learn about our Managed Assessment Service offering where we help organizations manage the entire risk assessment process from sending out questionnaires, to executing a control gap analysis on responses, to surfacing relevant findings.
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By BitSight
Learn how Bitsight Professional Services help organizations manage third-party risk by helping with vendor assessment/validation, continuous monitoring of your vendors and effectively reporting on your program to executive level stakeholders.
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By BitSight
Learn about our Bitsight Professional Services and how they bring a consultative support to the areas that matter most to your organization.
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By BitSight
Cybersecurity ROI isn't about cost savings. It's about how your cybersecurity program helps you achieve your goals while managing risk to a level that your executive team is comfortable with. So if you shouldn't measure success in cost savings, how do you measure it? BitSight is providing five steps that help CISOs and executive teams evaluate their company's cybersecurity performance.
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By BitSight
Are you overwhelmed by the intricacies of your attack surface? Concerned about the rising risk of vulnerabilities in your and your partners' digital ecosystems? New BitSight research finds that the average vulnerability remediation rate across organizations is about 5 percent per month, sparking concern that the status quo of exposure and vulnerability management is broken. Moreover, organizations face significant challenges in managing vulnerabilities in their extended, third-party ecosystem, and most security leaders do not have the tools to address these emerging threats.
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By BitSight
Traditional vendor risk management programs are not effective at mitigating risk in ever-expanding third-party networks, and yet 69% of businesses still rely on manual processes. It's time to take your program to the next level. How can you centralize, automate, and streamline your process to manage hundreds of vendors as effectively as you manage ten? Scalable VRM continuously detects, monitors, and mitigates risk, going beyond due diligence and initial assessments to constantly reassess and proactively act on vendor risk.
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By BitSight
Stop reacting to cyber risk as it comes. BitSight for Security Performance Management empowers security leaders to strengthen cyber resilience over time with objective, meaningful, and evidence-based metrics. Gain insights, drive decisions, and build confidence with our suite of advanced analytics.
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