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Explore our cybersecurity white papers, data sheets, webinars, videos and more.
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Learn how security ratings enable organizations to enhance and mature their information security and compliance programs by providing an independent, objective review of the companies’ external data breach risk mitigation strategies.
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SecurityScorecard scores provide insights and a detailed analysis of the security posture of an organization. Take a deep dive into our scoring methodology.
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This white paper advocates for continuous oversight of the wide variety of cloud services used by organizations—a set of distinct, but related, management and assurance practices that address critical emerging risk domains, including security, privacy and compliance.
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This white paper provides detail on the active and passive collection methods and signal types that are in use by the SecurityScorecard solution.
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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.
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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.
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Internal audits lives at the intersection of cybersecurity and best practices while external audit protects organizations from regulatory penalties.
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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.
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ISACA & SecurityScorecard teamed up to write about continuous assurance using data threat modeling.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Ecosystem Risk Management White Paper
While there are a few steps that can be taken to validate a partner’s cyber readiness, they each have their weaknesses and drawbacks. We show you the primary shortcomings of common assessment techniques, using a real-time, machine learning-driven security platform, the value that a reconnaissance platform can provide, and insights from other companies.
Ecosystem Risk Management 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.
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Combatting cybersecurity risk is already a difficult challenge given the dynamic cyber security risk landscape and evolving sophistication of cyber attacks. Without visibility into internal and external risk, this battle becomes harder. Organizations lacking awareness of the risks posed to their data are left struggling to find the best steps forward.
Healthcare 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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