20% of the World's Countries Now Use BitSight to Protect National Security
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BOSTON, Oct. 1, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
- Governments bolster critical infrastructure security through real-time
monitoring and information sharing
BitSight (
), the Standard in Security Ratings, has reached a critical milestone, with 38
countries, representing one-fifth of all governments worldwide, now using
BitSight solutions to monitor and manage cyber risk to critical national
infrastructure. BitSight works with national governments to help manage
national cyber risk through security ratings and analytics, which provide
visibility and awareness of security performance of critical national
infrastructure that can be used to identify vulnerabilities at scale, model
systemic risk, enable close collaboration to reduce the likelihood of a
national incident, and measure the effectiveness of policy. Countries with
government organizations using BitSight include Belgium, Brazil, Germany,
Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, and the United States.
The vulnerability of national critical infrastructure on a global scale is
being thrust into the limelight through attacks on hospitals, the defense
industrial base (
), energy companies, and even medical research (
). Governments around the world lack visibility into the security performance
of critical infrastructure and struggle to determine the effectiveness of the
policies they enact. By leveraging BitSight, countries across the globe are
able to gain new insight into aggregated risk, vulnerability, and security
effectiveness of critical infrastructure and make data-driven decisions to
reduce risk.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, BitSight partnered with the National
Education and Research Network (Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa -- RNP) in
Brazil to help to protect Brazilian health institutions in its backbone against
potential cyber attacks. RNP is an advanced national network for higher
education, research, and innovation that enables collaboration and
communication in the fields of teaching and research. "At this moment, it is
fundamental to support health institutions that are experiencing high demand
for their services," said the Executive Director of RNP, Eduardo Grizendi. "Any
unavailability or security incident can cause serious damage to patients and
users."
The BitSight platform makes it possible for the RNP to assess the cyber risk of
health institutions during the pandemic. According to Emilio Nakamura, Chief
Information Security Officer of the RNP, "there was a great complementarity
between BitSight and the other solutions already used by the security team
(CAIS) which improved the RNP's ability to monitor institutions and help them
prevent and address their problems."
In Belgium, BitSight partnered with a government agency and Agoria, a large
professional association of more than 2,000 technology-inspired companies, to
directly engage with a large number of important companies to understand and
improve their cybersecurity posture leveraging BitSight data and metrics.
"During the coronavirus pandemic, it was important for us to offer our member
organizations a way to better understand their security performance as well as
the right data to improve and remediate any risk," said Yves Schellekens,
Business Group Leader Industries for Agoria. "BitSight helped us to scale up
our efforts and offered a vehicle to continuously measure the effect of this
engagement. We will look to enhance our collaboration with member organizations
and improve security behaviors within Belgium leveraging the data delivered by
BitSight."
"Protecting critical infrastructure from cyber attack is one of the most
important governmental missions," said Francisco Fonseca, VP of National
Cybersecurity at BitSight. "Countries trust BitSight to provide valuable,
real-time security performance insights that they can't get anywhere else and a
method for sharing information that measurably reduces risk. We are honored to
partner with so many countries to help them fulfill this critical mission."
For more information on BitSight's work with national governments, please visit
https://www.bitsight.com/national-cybersecurity.
About BitSight
BitSight transforms how organizations manage cyber risk. The BitSight Security
Ratings Platform applies sophisticated algorithms, producing daily security
ratings that range from 250 to 900, to help organizations manage their own
security performance; mitigate third party risk; underwrite cyber insurance
policies; conduct financial diligence; and assess aggregate risk. With over
2,100 global customers and the largest ecosystem of users and information,
BitSight is the Standard in Security Ratings. For more information, please
visit www.bitsight.com, read our blog (
) or follow @BitSight (
) on Twitter.
SOURCE: BitSight
CONTACT: Jacob Olcott, BitSight, jolcott@bitsight.com, 571-388-7044; Ali
Mapplethorpe, Highwire PR, bitsight@highwirepr.com, 415-675-1457
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