Likelihood to Recommend If you are considering BitSight Security Ratings as a portion or bulk of a larger vendor management project you will be well served in letting the risk scores be an indication of how closely you need to examine a vendor. However, you should not base your assessment solely on the risk score provided. The risk score is based on publicly available data and can be inaccurate.
Read full review It is well suited in environments where there is a high mail traffic to handle. [Cofense] Vision basically journals the exchange server and keeps a copy of the mail received in the environment. Really beneficial to revoke and quarantine the mail reported by one user, but footprint is there in other mailboxes as well. Less appropriate in the cases where there is no proper segregation of duties within the organization. As it is possible to see contents of the mail. Only authorized personnel should be able to use it.
Read full review Pros Security hygiene tracking over time Understandable risk score based on observations Predictability model of potential cyber security issues based on security habits. Read full review AutoQuaratine prevents in advance and eliminates possible malicious emails from users' inboxes. [Cofense Vision] optimizes protection against any phishing attack. It is simple, friendly and easy to use. [Cofense Vision provides] super detailed analysis reports. Read full review Cons Since data is based on public registration IP and domain data can be stale depending on ISP/Domain registration update delays. Correcting a false detection is a month-long endeavor and requires the company with the impacted score to clean up BitSight's data. Customer service for incorrect data is convoluted and requires a deep understanding of domain registration to correct the data. The responsibility for correcting data is placed solely on the customer's shoulders. Read full review Its cost can be somewhat high when it comes to a small business, so it is perfectly suited to medium or large companies. It can throw problems when it comes to migrating said tool in the different versions of an email. Its configuration is simple, but it is important to fully understand its operation to give adequate responses to possible threats. It would be ideal if it could be integrated with your platform. Read full review Alternatives Considered BitSight Security Ratings ranks evenly with
SecurityScorecard and both below
OneTrust for our use case. We needed a platform that would let us define risk for our organization and weight scores differently based on data sensitivity. BitSight and
SecurityScorecard are aggregate data that can provide insight into the security habits of a potential vendor and should be considered as an addition to most vendor management projects. However, they both provide metrics based on hygiene and not on data-defined risk. In concert with a platform to evaluate risk based on data and to inform the overall evaluation of a vendor, BitSight Security Ratings can be made to shine. Just understand that you may have to validate some data.
Read full review Apple of Discord is the pricing as we were looking for an email security tool in reasonable pricing and Barracuda was undoubtedly efficient in action and was compatible with our business but it was highly expensive and then we made up our mind for another tool and Cofense Vision was offering almost the same as Barracuda but cheaper.
Read full review Return on Investment Wasted resource hours cleaning up data to correct erroneous risk score. Extra time spent addressing calls from clients about erroneous risk score data. Extra time validating risk score provided by BitSight Security Ratings for potential vendors to ensure valid data. Read full review Many Phishing attacks are identified and prevented in an instant. Classification of activity helps analysts search and find which emails pose a larger threat. User interface and learning is simple and easy to use. Read full review ScreenShots