Latest Research


This content is currently locked.

Your current Info-Tech Research Group subscription does not include access to this content. Contact your account representative to gain access to Premium SoftwareReviews.

Contact Your Representative
Or Call Us:
1-888-670-8889 (US/CAN) or
+1-519-432-3550 (International)

Comprehensive software reviews to make better IT decisions

BitSight Announces New Cyber Risk Score Benchmarking Service

BitSight, one of the leaders in cyber risk rating, has announced a new product to allow organizations to benchmark against their peers. Dubbed “Peer Analytics,” this service will interest companies where benchmarking is a compliance obligation.

Peer Analytics will leverage BitSight’s cyber risk rating services to provide companies with the ability to compare their risk ratings against peers within their own industry.

“Peer Analytics offers unprecedented visibility at the most granular level to help security leaders make data-driven, defensible decisions proactively rather than reactively,” said Dave Fachetti, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at BitSight. “On a larger scale, this capability will help organizations meet industry standards of care for cybersecurity, enabling them to benchmark security performance against their peers in order to remain competitive and firmly aligned to their sector’s best practices. This standardization of security performance will be invaluable as we continue to see legal, financial and reputational fallout for organizations involved in major breaches.”

Our Take

We are seeing an uptake in cybersecurity benchmarking expectations from regulators such as the USA Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. However, acquiring good benchmarking data has long been a significant challenge. Cyber risk ratings may not be ideal for peer benchmarking due to their limited insights into internal security practices, but they may be a good start for companies that are struggling to meet regulator expectations.


Want to Know More?

Build a Vendor Security Assessment Service

Visit our IT Cost Optimization Center
Over 100 analysts waiting to take your call right now: 1-519-432-3550 x2019