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Top 25 Cybersecurity Frameworks to Consider
In a world where digital transformation increases compliance burdens, understanding how to best secure on-premises, cloud, and hybrid IT stacks becomes more crucial than ever. Most organizations, regulations apply penalties but rarely offer concrete strategies for securing systems, networks, software, and devices. While cybersecurity frameworks provide… Read More
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What is Cyber Risk? Definition & Examples
Businesses have always faced different kinds of risk, but in the last two decades, cyber risk has become one of the fastest-growing threats to businesses, their data, and their financial success today. Learn more.
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How to Resolve Findings on Your SecurityScorecard Rating
Understanding how to remediate and resolve SecurityScorecard security ratings findings can help you iterate your cybersecurity and compliance program for continued visibility into your risk posture. Find out more.
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34 Resources for Employee Cybersecurity Training
Cybersecurity is a team effort. Check out these 34 resources for employee cybersecurity training.
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41 Common Web Application Vulnerabilities Explained
Organizations continue to “shift left,” embracing the new employee and customer experiences delivered by cloud-based applications. Simultaneously, malicious actors continue to revise their attack methodologies to address this shift. To maintain data security and privacy, organizations need to protect against these 41 common web application vulnerabilities. 1. Broken… Read More
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What Is a Cybersecurity Vulnerability and How Do They Lead to Breaches?
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities can lead to serious breaches. Learn what they are, how they’re exploited, and how to reduce your exposure.
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10 Ransomware Examples from Recent High-Impact Attacks
Learn from 10 major ransomware examples that disrupted organizations worldwide. Understand attack methods and strengthen your cyber defenses.
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What Are the Best Data Leak Prevention Strategies for 2025?
Discover the most effective data leak prevention (DLP) tactics—covering insider threats, cloud DLP, shadow IT, and vendor exposure.
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What is a Third-Party Service Provider?
Every company excels at something. Whether you manufacture cars, build software, or sell a service, your organization specializes in what it does best. However, just like it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a group of systems, applications, and networks to run a successful business. By understanding… Read More
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5 Network Segmentation Best Practices to Maximize Cybersecurity
While preventing attacks is the goal of cybersecurity, it’s also important to realize an attack can happen and make plans to mitigate the impact of a successful breach. Check out these network segmentation best practices to maximize cybersecurity.
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4 Best Practices for Effective Reputational Risk Management
Manage reputational risk with our expert guidance. Our risk management strategies protect your reputation from damage and future risk.\r\n
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Healthwise Case Study
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
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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7 Essential Cyber Risk Assessment Tools
For many enterprise organizations, administering risk assessments is the first step in building an effective cyber threat management system. The visibility gained from these assessments provides insight that helps guide high-level cybersecurity decisions, making them a valuable asset for organizations of all sizes. That said, the effectiveness of cyber risk assessments… Read More
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Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk: What’s the Difference?
When organizations think about risk, they’re often thinking about the risk they’d be exposed to without any security controls in place at all: a breach that happens in the absence of cybersecurity controls, for example, or a phishing attack on staff that hasn’t been taught to spot fraudulent emails. But what about… Read More
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6 Cybersecurity Metrics Every CISO Should Monitor
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.\r\n\r\nHere 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.\r\n
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6 Cybersecurity Metrics Every CISO Should Monitor
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.\r\n\r\nHere 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.\r\n
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Truphone One-Page Case Study
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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A Deep Dive into BianLian Ransomware
BianLian ransomware is a Golang malware that performed targeted attacks across multiple industries in 2022. The ransomware employed anti-analysis techniques consisting of API calls that would likely crash some sandboxes/automated analysis systems. The malware targets all drives identified on the machine and deletes itself after the encryption is complete.
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What is Attack Surface Management?
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. \r\n\r\nTo 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. \r\n\r\n
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What Is Two-Factor Authentication (2FA Security) ?
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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