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What is Continuous Cybersecurity Monitoring?
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 Papers
Applying Machine Learning To Optimize The Correlation Of Securityscorecard Scores With Relative Likelihood Of Breach
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.
Security Ratings
Data Sheet
How Do Security Ratings Work?
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?
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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How Can You Secure Risky Open Ports?
Open network ports enable organizations to adopt cloud strategies. However, each port is technically a small gateway into an organization’s IT stack. Learn how you can security risky open ports.
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What’s the Role of Cybersecurity in Procurement?
As a company’s IT stack adds more e-procurement tools, the role of cybersecurity in the procurement process becomes integral to protecting sensitive corporate data and mitigating the risks within a supply chain. Learn more on SecurityScorecard’s blog.
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7 Essential Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Tools
Organizations that still rely on inefficient manual processes face a higher risk of a cyber breach, as well as reputational or regulatory repercussions. With the right TPRM tools in place, IT and security teams can streamline, and maximize the effectiveness of their tools and procedures so they can keep up with the demands of their businesses.\r\n\r\nWhile multiple factors will determine the exact needs of a particular organization, here are seven tools that are essential to managing any vendor ecosystem.
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How to Justify Your Cybersecurity Budget
Organizations know they need cybersecurity, but security leaders still struggle to get the funding necessary. CISOs looking to justify their cybersecurity budgets need ways to prove return on investment, provide metrics for measuring success, and ensure continued year-over-year value.
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A Security Operations Center (SOC) Report Template for the C-Suite
The Security Operations Center (SOC) is an important element of any organization’s cybersecurity strategy. Staffed by a team of security analysts and incident responders who work together to detect, analyze, respond to, report on, and prevent data breaches. It’s an important role — the SOC is a… Read More
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Patch Cadence & Patch Management Best Practices
Learn patch management best practices to reduce vulnerabilities through effective patch cadence in your cybersecurity operations.
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Case Studies
Truphone Case Study
Information provided by SecurityScorecard is integral to Truphone’s business continuity management in securing the entirety of its supply chain. Streamlining operations through intuitive, customizable groupings of IPs, vendors, and data points saves time, while the added visibility Nuno Teodoro pointed out, “lets us sleep at night.”
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Calculating the ROI of Security Ratings.
It can be difficult to show leadership metrics that prove that you’re saving money because of incidents that haven’t happened. Fortunately, there are a number of qualitative ways to prove to your board and investors that your investment in security ratings is saving your paying off.
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What Is a Cybersecurity Audit and Why Does it Matter?
A cybersecurity audit is essential to protecting your organization. Learn key steps, tools, and considerations to perform an effective audit in 2025.
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What is a Third-Party Vendor? Tips for Managing Vendor Risk
Third-party vendors play a critical role in cybersecurity exposure. Learn how to define, classify, and manage third-party relationships effectively.
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How to Use the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework to Assess Vendor Security
Learn how to use the NIST Framework to streamline vendor security assessments.
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8 Effective Vendor Due Diligence Best Practices
Vendors often have access to sensitive company information, so vendor due diligence is crucial to mitigating risk. Explore 8 things to consider during the vendor due diligence process.
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The 2 Types of Risk Assessment Methodology
Discover how a balanced risk assessment methodology helps organizations quantify cyber risk, improve resilience, and enhance security posture.
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How to Write Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Policies and Procedures
As organizations set out to mature their cybersecurity programs, vendor risk management (VRM) is a primary risk mitigation strategy. However, managing third-party risk becomes overwhelming, especially as they incorporate more cloud-based vendors to help streamline business operations. While monitoring used to be based on a “trust but verify” mentality, the modern move towards “verify then trust” requires organizations to pivot their programs and become more proactive. Writing third-party risk management (TPRM) policies and procedures needs to act as the foundational guidelines for creating an effective vendor risk management strategy.
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5 Ways Data Breaches Affect Organizations
While organizations often focus their attention on a data breach’s impact on their bottom line, there are several other other ways a cyber attack can impact a company. Read more on SecurityScorecard’s blog.
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What Is a Cybersecurity Vendor Due Diligence Questionnaire?
A vendor cybersecurity due diligence questionnaire is a written assessment given to a vendor to gain a better understanding of their cybersecurity environment.
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What is the Difference Between Information Security vs Cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity and information security are often used interchangeably, but they have distinct roles in protecting your organization. Learn the key differences in 2025 and why they both matter.
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