A Bit(Short)Sighted Security Rating
Rating: 5 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
BitSight Security Ratings was evaluated for use in our vendor management project. BitSight utilizes a proprietary analysis of a domain's online presence to evaluate risk and track changes over time and provide a risk score (much like a credit score). We evaluated BitSight as a way of providing numeric risk values to vendors prior to bringing them into our environment.
Pros
- Security hygiene tracking over time
- Understandable risk score based on observations
- Predictability model of potential cyber security issues based on security habits.
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.
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.
Vetted Review
3 years of experience