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SecurityScorecard Report
SecurityScorecard developed this report to outline observable changes within the external security postures of US federal government entities during the period throughout the US Government Shutdown of 2018 - 2019.
SecurityScorecard Report
In 2018, SecurityScorecard analyzed 2,393 companies with a footprint of 100 IP addresses or more in the education industry. We found the following:
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In this short video, I’ll provide a quick demo of how to use the SecurityScorecard security ratings platform to gain an outside-in hacker view of vendor security, and quickly assess and manage risk in your third-party ecosystem
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Your organization probably has security vulnerabilities it may need to fix, but you struggle to identify which vulnerabilities to prioritize. Additionally, you’ve been told your organization needs to maintain a certain security score within SecurityScorecard to meet your customer’s requirements. All this leads to the question, “How do I get there?”
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With SecurityScorecard’s new Issue Level Event Log, we are increasing transparency associated with score changes and enabling you to quickly pinpoint the specific issues that impacted your score.
Data Sheet
Get a transparent view of cyber security risk
Data Sheet
Take control of your security rating and easily boost your score
White Paper
Security ratings can provide insights enabling better security when the companies creating the scores explain the algorithms so that businesses can understand how to use them meaningfully.
Webinar
Transparent understanding of what issues to prioritize in order to improve your score is now a key component of the SecurityScorecard Platform!
SecurityScorecard Report
SecurityScorecard looked into the top 15 CISOs and the programs that have pushed their organizations forward in terms of cybersecurity; We ran an analysis looking at the security ratings of organizations over a six month period and identified which organizations improved those scores the most; whether overall or within a specific risk area.
White Paper
The newest Phorpiex/Trik variant has the ability to infect machines with ransomware by targeting desktops, laptops, and other endpoints running server-side remote access applications. With increasing numbers of companies offering remote-work options to their employees, many corporate endpoints may be running these applications.
White Paper
Internal audits lives at the intersection of cybersecurity and best practices while external audit protects organizations from regulatory penalties.
White Paper
SecurityScorecard delivers security ratings that empower enterprises to instantly and accurately monitor, assess and understand their own cybersecurity posture as well as the cyberhealth of all vendors and business partners in their ecosystems.
White Paper
ISACA & SecurityScorecard teamed up to write about continuous assurance using data threat modeling.
Case Study
Find out how SecurityScorecard helps Cadence Bank perform thorough security vendor risk assessments, and improves accountability. Learn more.
White Paper
Many cyber breaches occur as a result of third-party vendor relationships and these types of attacks are on the rise. The cost factors associated with a breach can include data loss, operational downtime, incident recovery, shareholder and customer lawsuits, regulatory fines and reputational damage.
White Paper
Industry reports draw attention to consistent financial audit outcomes from year to year. Learn what you need to know about cybersecurity and audit controls within financial industries.
White Paper
This whitepaper provides detail on how cyber insurance providers can use security ratings to assess cyber risk as part of issuing cyber liability insurance policies.
Webinar
Listen to Heidi Shey, Forrester Senior Analyst - Security and Risk, as she discusses Forrester’s recently released study, “Security Ratings Set the Standard.” Watch the webinar.
Analyst Report
In its Top Recommendations For Your Security Program, 2018 report, Forrester Research reports that “New cyber risk ratings and increased senior executive scrutiny require you to prove your security practices are solid. Often, this means tightening your practices with third parties or suffering their fate if they fail.”
Analyst Report
In this Forrester report, commissioned by SecurityScorecard, Forrester found that, “Enterprises need robust platforms that can score and rate ecosystem risk to provide visibility into risks and help organizations improve their security posture more effectively.”
Case Study
Learn how SecurityScorecard helped Gunderson Dettmer enhance their cybersecurity posture and maintain client confidence. Read the case study.
SecurityScorecard Report
Government agencies must leverage cybersecurity best practice tools and technologies and tailor risk mitigation strategies to address the unique requirements of election security and integrity.
White Paper
Security ratings grade your organization on how well it protects information. In a digital world, the importance of data and your company’s protection of that data parallels your income and protection of financial assets.
White Paper
NIST SP 800-171 required government contractors to provide “adequate security” to protect protect “controlled but unclassified information” (CUI) by December 31, 2017. While its main objective is to drive better cyber controls to protect CUI in non-federal systems and organizations, navigating the standard requires some understanding of its structure.
White Paper
Security ratings offer critical insight into vulnerabilities present both in your environment and the environment of your vendors, partners, suppliers, and other third-parties. Aside from providing clarity on the nature of risks in your risk ecosystem, security ratings provide tangible cost savings both in operating expenses and staff time.
Webinar
Watch this on-demand webinar with Mike Resseler, Veeam Product Management Director, as he discusses how to accelerate your GDPR efforts, existing data management strategies, and more.
White Paper
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) prompted the HHS to issue the rules on the specific areas of HIPAA. These rules define uniform standards for transferring health information among healthcare providers, health plans, and clearinghouses while securing health information and ensuring patient privacy and confidentiality.
White Paper
Enterprises struggle with the increasingly difficult mandate to consistently improve, maintain, and document cybersecurity in order to protect brand reputation, customer trust, and the bottom line. Top of mind on the cyber security agenda is adopting a more agile approach to managing emerging risks across an organization’s third-party portfolio.
White Paper
Ever wish you could just give in to despair and stop worrying about imminent security threats and let your network operate on cruise control? It’s a tempting thought given the escalating number of threats and the challenges involved in prioritizing them in terms of business risk cost and time to remediate.
SecurityScorecard Report
Looking at more than 1200 healthcare companies from July to the end of 2017, SecurityScorecard’s research team analyzed information such as issue severity, industry-defined risk level, corporate peer performance, and more.
Case Study
Find out how SecurityScorecard helped Greenville Health System improve their cyberhealth and maintain compliance with standards and regulations.
Webinar
While not yet a silver bullet, security ratings are emerging as a necessary tool in the vendor risk management armamentarium that can significantly reduce risk in your IT ecosystem, including both third-party and fourth-party risk.
Case Study
Find out how one healthcare insurance provider improved its affiliates cybersecurity health using SecurityScorecard. Learn more.
SecurityScorecard Report
SecurityScorecard identified 34,062 IPv4 addresses on the public internet which all display the symptoms expected from an embedded device infected with Mirai IoT malware.
Case Study
Find out how Children's Minnesota improved their security risk rating, as well as vendors' ratings with the help of SecurityScorecard. Learn more.
White Paper
The European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), effective May 25, 2018, reaches far beyond the Continent’s borders. GDPR imposes legislation on every organization that handles EU citizen data in order to deliver products or services. Inability to demonstrate compliance with GDPR will yield hefty penalties of 20+ million euros.
Ebook
Tackling the problem of vendor risk is not made any easier with technology solutions being added by the day. Current vendor risk management processes are not equipped to handle the growing demand of security risk assessments for new and existing third-parties. Learn how you can improve your vendor risk management program to handle the modern risk.
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SecurityScorecard CEO Aleksandr Yampolskiy discusses how U.S. companies can protect against cyber attacks.
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As extremist organizations use the internet to spread propaganda and recruit, government agencies develop new techniques to hunt them.
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2016 Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity Report - a comprehensive analysis exposing alarming cybersecurity vulnerabilities across 700 healthcare organizations including medical treatment facilities, health insurance agencies and healthcare manufacturing companies.
Case Study
Learn how SecurityScorecard helps Farm Credit easily monitor third party vendor risks and maintain compliance with regulatory guidelines. Learn more.
Case Study
Liquidnet uses SecurityScorecard to quickly and easily quantify the security performance of their vendors as well as providing continuous monitoring.
Tool
Instant SecurityScorecard provides a free limited summary view into the security posture of your organization that can be accessed every 30 days. It does not reflect or provide access in to the SecurityScorecard platform.
Case Study
Discover how SecurityScorecard helped Healthwise gain confidence in the cybersecurity of their vendor ecosystem. Read the case study.
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While college students hit the books, hackers are stealing their private information. Universities are the third most-hacked industry behind healthcare and retail. Reuters explores the cyber threat across America’s academic landscape.
SecurityScorecard Report
SecurityScorecard analyzed and evaluated the security posture of nearly 3,000 financial institutions to find existing vulnerabilities within banks, investment firms, and other financial organizations to determine the cybersecurity performance of the financial sector.
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