Resources
Explore our cyber security white papers, data sheets, webinars, videos and more.
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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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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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In this paper, we will review key areas to operationalize Vendor Risk Management with SecurityScorecard. This includes the vendor landscape, considerations when conducting the risk assessment as well as what to include in vendor contracts.
Ecosystem Risk Management White Paper
With cyber crime-related costs to hit $6 trillion annually by 2021 and continued high-profile breaches in news headlines, more and more organizations fear that one cyber-attack could suddenly put a stop to growth and profitability.
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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.
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Cryptocurrency is digital, decentralized currency. In the past, cybercriminals primarily just used cryptocurrency to receive money in an anonymized manner.
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 cyber security 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 impacts every organization that handles EU resident personal data in order to deliver products or services. Non-compliance with GDPR will yield hefty fines up to 20 million euros.
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With the never-ending cycle of new and updated security and privacy regulations and standards, we at SecurityScorecard are continuously monitoring and preparing for impacts of what is sure to be a compliance-heavy tidal wave in 2018. Download now to learn some of the key requirements and controls worth noting.
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SecurityScorecard grades the cybersecurity health of organizations based on the information collected by ThreatMarket, our proprietary data engine, as well as our own internal collection activities. Threatmarket collects information from several sources like data feeds, sensors, honeypots, and sinkholes.
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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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