Your free Cyber Risk Rating Report
See your organisation's 250–900 cyber security rating, industry benchmark and prioritised findings. Complimentary, as little as 45 minutes for publicly listed entities, up to 48 hours for all others.
- /01Bitsight Cybersecurity Rating (250–900)
- /02Top risk vectors: network, endpoint, web app, DNS health
- /03Industry benchmark — how you rank against peers
- /04Prioritised remediation findings
- /05Score-response forecast as you remediate
Almost every organisation we speak to is already being rated. Insurers price against it, prospective enterprise customers check it during procurement, and regulators increasingly expect a board to know it. The rating exists whether or not you have ever looked at it, because it is calculated from what an outside observer can see. The report simply lets you read your own file.
What is actually in the report
It is a complete report, not a teaser that withholds the number until you buy something. Five things arrive together:
- Your current rating, 250–900. One number, calculated daily from external signals, on the same scale used by 38% of the Fortune 500 and half of the world's cyber insurers.
- The risk vectors behind it. Which of network, endpoint, web application and DNS health are dragging the score down, and by roughly how much — so the number becomes diagnosable rather than just alarming.
- An industry benchmark. Your position against sector peers. This is the part boards react to, because 640 in isolation means nothing and 640 against a peer median of 710 means something very specific.
- Prioritised remediation findings. The specific issues to fix, ordered by impact on the score rather than by scanner severity.
- A score-response forecast. What the rating is projected to do as those findings are closed, so remediation effort can be argued for with a number attached.
How it is produced
The rating is calculated entirely from externally observable, attacker-visible signals across your internet-facing footprint. The platform identifies the assets belonging to your organisation, observes their configuration and behaviour continuously, and scores what it finds across risk vectors including botnet infections, spam propagation, malware servers, Critical Vulnerability Management, open ports, TLS/SSL configuration, web application headers, DNSSEC and DKIM/SPF records.
Because no internal telemetry is involved, there is nothing to deploy and nothing to approve. That is also why the turnaround is measured in hours: for publicly listed entities the internet-facing footprint is usually already well attributed, so a report can arrive in as little as 45 minutes. Everyone else receives theirs within 48 hours, the extra time going into attributing assets correctly rather than into any onboarding step on your side.
What the bands mean
| Band | Range | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced | 740–900 | Strong security performance, lower risk |
| Intermediate | 640–730 | Fair security performance, moderate risk |
| Basic | 250–630 | Poor security performance, higher risk |
The relationship between band and breach likelihood is published rather than asserted, and it is comparative: Bitsight states that Intermediate entities are on average 1.5–2× more likely to be breached than Advanced ones, and that entities rated 400 or below are 5× more likely to suffer a publicly disclosed breach than those rated 700 or above. The principal independent study behind it is Marsh McLennan’s Cyber Risk Analytics Center analysis of October 2022. That external validation is why the number carries weight with an insurer or a board in a way an internal maturity score does not.
Who tends to request one
- CISOs and CROs who can describe their controls in detail but cannot evidence how they compare to sector peers today, between annual assessments.
- Heads of third-party risk who want to see the instrument applied to their own organisation before pointing it at two hundred vendors.
- CFOs and boards preparing for a cyber insurance renewal, a regulatory examination, or an enterprise customer's security review — all three of which now ask for external evidence rather than a self-assessment.
What happens afterwards
A BitScore analyst offers to walk through the findings and explain what is driving the score. That conversation is usually worth an hour, because the gap between “here are forty findings” and “here are the six that move your number this quarter” is where the value sits. There is no obligation attached to it.
From there the two natural paths are Security Posture Management, if the goal is to maintain and improve your own rating continuously rather than measure it once, and Third-Party Risk Management, if the more urgent blind spot is your vendor ecosystem. Packaging and how a quote is determined are set out on the pricing page.
Questions people actually ask about RPT.
/01What does the Cyber Risk Rating Report cost?
Nothing. The baseline Cyber Risk Rating Report is complimentary and one-time. It carries no obligation to buy anything afterwards, and it is a complete report rather than a teaser — your current rating, the risk vectors behind it, your industry benchmark and the prioritised findings are all included.
/02How long does the report take to arrive?
Publicly listed entities typically receive their report in as little as 45 minutes, because their internet-facing footprint is already well attributed. All other organisations receive theirs within 48 hours. There is no onboarding or deployment step to wait on, since the rating uses only external signals.
/03Do we need to install anything or grant system access?
No. There is no agent to deploy, no network access to grant, no credentials to share, and no questionnaire to complete. The rating is calculated entirely from externally observable, attacker-visible signals across your internet-facing footprint.
/04Can we see a specimen report before requesting ours?
Yes. Two specimen reports are published on the BitScore site — an executive Cyber Risk Rating Report and a NIFTY 50 peer benchmark. Both are real Bitsight output run against a demonstration entity rather than mock-ups, so they show the actual deliverable and its actual level of detail.
/05What happens after we receive the report?
Nothing automatic. A BitScore analyst will offer to walk through the findings and explain what is driving the score, which is usually worth an hour. Organisations that want the rating maintained continuously rather than measured once move to Security Posture Management; those whose concern is their vendor ecosystem move to Third-Party Risk Management.
Start with the number, not the contract.
Your organisation already has a rating, calculated from signals anyone can see. Request the complimentary Cyber Risk Rating Report and find out what it says — as little as 45 minutes for publicly listed entities, up to 48 hours for all others. No agent, no system access, no questionnaire.
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