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4 Best Practices for Effective Reputational Risk Management
January 13, 2021
Just as a strong reputation can help attract new business, a poor reputation can drive potential customers away, leading to financial loss. This is why many organizations are beginning to invest in reputational risk management programs. Here we'll outline four best practices you can follow to effectively manage reputational risk at your organization.
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Healthwise Case Study
January 8, 2021
Healthwise found that SecurityScorecard’s risk monitoring platform was the ideal solution to its third-party risk management challenges. Healthwise has integrated the platform as part of the new third-party due diligence process.
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How To Manage Third-Party Digital Risk
January 6, 2021
Addressing data breaches outside your company is vital to managing your third-party digital risk. Download this white paper and learn about the implication of third-party data leaks, how to prevent and manage data leaks, and more.
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Attack Surface Management, Enterprise Cyber Risk, Security Ratings, Supply Chain Cyber Risk
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7 Essential Cyber Risk Assessment Tools
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Miryam Meir
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6 Cybersecurity Metrics Every CISO Should Monitor
December 7, 2020
By tracking the right metrics, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) can monitor the effectiveness of their processes and controls overtime, evaluate team performance, and show return on investment (ROI) of security spending at the board level. Here is a list of metrics that can help CISOs prioritize and maximize their efforts, and conduct more effective security reporting at the board level, so they can drive value and growth within their organizations.
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Security Ratings, Tech Center
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Truphone One-Page Case Study
December 2, 2020
Now that Truphone relies on SecurityScorecard for continuous monitoring, there is peace of mind. “With SecurityScorecard it’s fire and forget, because we know the platform will catch everything and surface all of our assets,” said Nuno Teodoro. Having SecurityScorecard has brought benefits across all of the Security and IT team’s responsibilities.
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What is Attack Surface Management?
November 23, 2020
Organizations are facing increased pressure to adopt digital solutions to stay competitive. While these solutions have undoubted benefits for organizations, they also expand their potential attack surface and expose them to increased levels of cyber risk. To help stay protected, many organizations are adopting cyber attack surface management programs that work to continually assess their networks for potential threats. Cyber attack surface management is the process of identifying all networks within a business that can be infiltrated, classifying areas of risk, prioritizing high-risk areas, and continuously monitoring an organization’s attack surface.
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What’s Wrong with Two-Factor Authentication?
November 17, 2020
Though requiring an extra identifier does deter some hackers from attacking systems defended with two-factor authentication, it is not always your safest option. Find out more on SecurityScorecard's blog.
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What is Continuous Cybersecurity Monitoring?
November 9, 2020
Recommended: Cybersecurity monitoring is a threat detection strategy that uses automation to continuously scan your IT ecosystem for control weaknesses. Learn more.
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White Paper
Applying Machine Learning To Optimize The Correlation Of Securityscorecard Scores With Relative Likelihood Of Breach
October 15, 2020
We conducted a study, investigating the use of Machine Learning (ML) to tune the weighting of each of the risk factors so that the total score is optimally correlated with the relative likelihood of incurring a data breach. Download the white paper to learn more.
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Bob Sohval, PhD
Security Ratings
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How Do Security Ratings Work?
October 15, 2020
SecurityScorecard provides transparency into our ratings methodology and delivers insights into how it aligns with industry standards. Understand the principles, methodology, and process behind how our cybersecurity ratings work.
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Cybersecurity Audit vs. Cybersecurity Assessment: What’s the Difference?
October 7, 2020
Cybersecurity assessments and audits are often discussed interchangeably. While the two are related, assessments and audits are distinct cybersecurity and compliance evaluation mechanisms. It’s important for security leaders to understand exactly how the two function in order to drive organizational cyber maturity and meet industry-specific regulatory requirements.
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