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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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White Papers
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
Cyber Threat Intelligence
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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
Cyber Threat Intelligence
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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
Attack Surface Management
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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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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.
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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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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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