BitSight FAQs

  • Who is BitSight best for - their role(s) within what kind of companies.

    BitSight is for Security and Risk Management Leaders who need to manage their organization’s cybersecurity performance and want
    to ensure the performance is meeting the standards set by the organization.

  • How does BitSight benefit them?

    Security leaders use BitSight to provide a set of meaningful metrics by which to establish organizational appropriate performance standards, enable security leadership to drive accountability across the extended organizational hierarchy, improve decision-making such as guiding remediation priorities, improve the understanding of cyber risk across the organization’s extended digital footprint, quantify cyber risk exposure in financial terms, and provide context of the organization’s performance with comparative analytics showing how the organization compares to others in its peer group.

  • How technical do users need to be to use BitSight's software?

    A simple, easy to use portal with build-in reporting and alerting. BitSight has a sharp focus on customer success offering both self-serve Academy courses and an exceptional team of solutions experts.

  • What makes BitSight a leader in this space?

    BitSight is the only Security Rating independently correlated with breach risk and stock performance. With 32 patents and over 40M rated companies, more than 50% of global insurance premiums are written by BitSight customers and 20% of global governments use our data to protect national security.