Insurers price your premiums against it. Regulators expect you to demonstrate it. Prospective partners check it before signing. Your organisation has a cyber risk score — the only question is whether you know what it says.
On a scale of 250 to 900, your Bitsight rating is calculated from external, attacker-visible signals — the actual vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and exposure indicators that anyone with the right tools can see from the outside.
Most CISOs cannot evidence how they compare to sector peers, today. A pen-test snapshots a moment. BitScore measures continuously — daily — based on real-time external signals.
Over 60% of breaches originate through third parties. Most enterprises have zero continuous visibility into supplier security. A vendor's defences can collapse overnight — do you know the moment it happens?
Cyber oversight now sits with the board, and with the CEOs and CROs who answer for it. The SEC disclosure rules, NIS2, DORA and NYDFS Part 500 all expect that oversight to be demonstrated, not delegated. Without an objective rating, "we take cyber seriously" is a claim, not evidence.
Your external security posture, as seen by attackers, insurers, and regulators — delivered as a structured report with a 250–900 rating, risk vector breakdown, and prioritised remediation roadmap.
“Bitsight lets us quantify risk with greater confidence and measure our cybersecurity progress against an objective standard. We have a single, reliable source of truth — and a Bitsight score of 810, one of the best in financial services.”
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A Bitsight Security Rating is an objective measurement of an organisation's cyber security performance, expressed on a 250 to 900 scale. It is calculated daily from externally observable signals, without requiring any agent, network access, or questionnaire. Higher ratings indicate stronger security performance and a lower likelihood of a breach.
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 headers, TLS/SSL configuration, DNSSEC, and DKIM/SPF 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 and indicates strong security with lower risk. Intermediate is 640 to 730 and indicates fair security with moderate risk. Basic is 250 to 630 and indicates poor security with higher risk.
No. BitScore requires no agent, no network access, and no system credentials. Ratings are computed entirely from external, attacker-visible signals. Your free rating report is delivered as little as 45 minutes for publicly listed entities, up to 48 hours for all others.
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.
The baseline Cyber Risk Rating Report is complimentary. It includes your current 250 to 900 rating, a breakdown of top risk vectors, an industry benchmark against peers, prioritised remediation findings, and a score-response forecast. Ongoing Security Posture Management and Third-Party Risk Management subscriptions have no list price and are quoted against scope — the four factors that determine a quote are vendor coverage, workflow requirements, integrations and services. Packaging and editions are set out on the BitScore pricing page.
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, and Dynamic Remediation shows the projected score response before you commit effort. Common high-impact fixes include closing unnecessary open ports, shortening time-to-remediate on critical vulnerabilities, correcting TLS/SSL misconfiguration, adding security headers, and completing DNSSEC, DKIM and SPF records.
Indian regulators increasingly expect boards to evidence cyber oversight rather than assert it — the RBI reset its framework on 31 July 2026 with seven parallel Directions across its regulated entities, SEBI runs CSCRF for the securities market, and IRDAI reissued its Information and Cyber Security Guidelines in April 2026. 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, ISO 27001, RBI, SEBI and IRDAI frameworks. 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, with practice depth in India and the United States. The Bitsight platform is used by 38% of the Fortune 500, 50% of cyber insurers, and all top five banks in India. Bitsight serves more than 3,500 customer organisations globally and actively monitors over 40 million vendors.