Cyber Risk Ratings for Enterprises.

The rating is derived from external, attacker-visible signals collected continuously across an organisation's internet-facing footprint. Measured risk vectors include botnet infections, spam propagation, malware servers, unsolicited communications, Critical Vulnerability Management, open ports, web application security, TLS/SSL certificates and configuration, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC records. No internal telemetry is used, so a rating can be produced for any organisation without its participation.

Bitsight ratings fall into three bands on the 250 to 900 scale. Advanced is 740 to 900: strong security performance, lower risk. Intermediate is 640 to 730: fair security performance, moderate risk. Basic is 250 to 630: poor security performance, higher risk.

Publicly listed entities typically receive their complimentary Cyber Risk Rating Report in as little as 45 minutes. All other organisations receive theirs within 48 hours. Because the rating uses only external signals, there is no onboarding, deployment, or system access step to wait on.

Yes. Just as a credit score gives lenders an objective measure of financial risk, a Bitsight rating gives insurers, regulators, customers and boards an objective measure of cyber risk. Both are calculated independently of the organisation being assessed, both update continuously, and both are used by third parties to make decisions about you.

Yes, and the relationship is published band by band rather than as a single figure. Bitsight states that entities in its Intermediate band are on average 1.5 to 2 times more likely to be breached than those in the Advanced band, that Basic entities are 2 to 3 times more likely than Intermediate ones, and that entities rated 400 or below are 5 times more likely to suffer a publicly disclosed breach than those rated 700 or above. The principal independent work behind this is an analysis by Marsh McLennan's Cyber Risk Analytics Center of October 2022, which found 14 Bitsight analytics statistically significant against its own cyber incident data. The rating sorts populations by likelihood rather than predicting any individual outcome.

Security Posture Management (SPM) monitors your own organisation's external attack surface continuously, with industry benchmarking, board dashboards, and control mapping to frameworks including NIST CSF 2.0 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, alongside regional obligation areas such as the SEC cyber disclosure rules, NYDFS Part 500, RBI and SEBI. Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) applies the same continuous monitoring to your vendors, suppliers and fourth parties, with real-time alerts when a vendor's posture changes.

Improvement comes from remediating the specific external findings that depress the score, in priority order. The Cyber Risk Rating Report ranks findings by impact, Security Posture Management forecasts the score response of a fix before you commit effort, and Dynamic Remediation claims the credit with an on-demand rescan once the fix is in. Common high-impact fixes include closing unnecessary open ports, shortening time-to-remediate on critical vulnerabilities, correcting TLS/SSL misconfiguration, fixing web application security findings, and completing SPF, DKIM and DMARC records.

Regulators increasingly expect boards to evidence cyber oversight rather than assert it. In India, the RBI reset its framework on 31 July 2026 with seven parallel Directions across its regulated entities, SEBI runs CSCRF for the securities market, IRDAI reissued its Information and Cyber Security Guidelines in April 2026, and IFSCA governs GIFT City entities separately — an IFSC licence displaces the mainland regulator rather than adding to it. BitScore provides an independent, continuously updated rating and board-ready reporting that demonstrates posture over time, with automatic control mapping to NIST CSF 2.0 and ISO 27001, which BitScore carries across to RBI, SEBI, IRDAI and IFSCA obligations in its advisory work. This turns "we take cyber seriously" into an evidenced, externally validated position. A rating is not compliance with any of those instruments, and BitScore says so: it evidences external hygiene and supports third-party due diligence.

Both regimes ask for something a point-in-time assessment cannot provide: evidence of continuous oversight. The SEC rules require registrants to describe their processes for assessing, identifying and managing material cyber risk, including risks from third parties, and to disclose material incidents. NYDFS Part 500 requires covered entities to maintain a third-party service provider security policy with periodic assessment. A continuously calculated external rating gives both an independent, timestamped record of posture and vendor posture over time, rather than an attestation that was true on the day it was signed.

BitScore works with enterprises in banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), IT and technology, healthcare, and manufacturing, worldwide. The Bitsight platform is used by nearly 40% of the Global Fortune 500 and all top five banks in India, and Bitsight customers underwrite 50% of global cyber insurance gross written premiums. Bitsight serves more than 3,500 customer organisations globally and rates a universe of more than 325 million organisations.