Security Posture Management for enterprises
Continuous outside-in monitoring of your attack surface, peer benchmarking, board dashboards and control mapping to NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, RBI and SEBI.
- /01Continuous, outside-in monitoring of full attack surface
- /02Industry benchmarking — your score vs. sector peers
- /03Board & exec dashboards (Command Center)
- /04Dynamic Remediation — score updates as you fix
- /05Auto-mapping to NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, RBI, SEBI, IRDAI
Most security programmes know their posture accurately on exactly one day a year. The audit completes, the report is filed, and for the following eleven months the organisation operates on an estimate. Meanwhile the attack surface changes weekly: a subsidiary stands up a marketing site, a certificate lapses, a migration leaves a port open, a supplier is given a subdomain. SPM closes that gap by measuring every day instead of once.
What SPM actually does
- Discovers your real attack surface. Not the asset inventory you maintain — the internet-facing footprint that is genuinely attributable to you. The delta between the two is where the worst findings usually live, because nobody is patching an asset nobody has recorded.
- Scores it continuously. A daily 250–900 rating with a rolling twelve-month history, so the trend is visible rather than inferred.
- Benchmarks against sector peers. Your score alongside the distribution for your industry, which is the only framing in which the number is actionable.
- Reports to a board without translation. Command Center dashboards produce material a director can read directly, rather than a security team's slide deck about a security team.
- Forecasts remediation. Dynamic Remediation projects the score response of a fix before the work is committed.
- Maps findings to frameworks. Automatic mapping to NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, RBI and SEBI expectations, removing the manual crosswalk that normally consumes the fortnight before an audit.
How SPM differs from tools you already have
| Instrument | Question it answers | Cadence |
|---|---|---|
| Vulnerability scanner | Which known weaknesses exist on assets we already track? | Scheduled, internal |
| Penetration test | What could a skilled attacker achieve against us this week? | Point-in-time |
| Annual audit | Were our controls documented and operating on the assessment date? | Yearly |
| Security Posture Management | How does our overall security performance compare to peers, today, in a form an insurer, regulator and board will accept? | Daily, external |
The distinction that matters commercially is the last column of the last row. A scanner produces evidence for your security team. SPM produces evidence for everyone who is going to ask your security team to prove something — and it produces it independently, which is precisely why it is accepted.
Why this lands differently in India
RBI, SEBI and CERT-In have all tightened cyber governance expectations, and the DPDP Act obligations are live. The consistent direction of travel is that boards must evidence oversight rather than assert it. An independently calculated, dated, continuously updated rating is close to the cleanest form that evidence can take: it is not produced by the organisation being assessed, and it cannot be quietly backdated.
For the detail on what Indian boards are actually expected to demonstrate, see our guide to RBI cyber security compliance for boards.
Editions
SPM is licensed in three cumulative editions — each includes everything in the one before it. Every edition includes the 250–900 rating and the risk-vector breakdown; what changes is analytics depth, integration breadth, and whether you are managing subsidiaries.
Basic
For organisations resolving issues and managing the rating.
- Security rating and risk vectors
- Asset management
- Issue tracking
- Basic reports and alerts
- Basic threat insights
Standard — most commonly chosen
For organisations measuring, improving and demonstrating cyber resilience.
- API and integrations
- Peer analytics and benchmarking
- Risk remediation
- Framework intelligence
- EASM Enhanced
- Bitsight Pulse CTI portal
- Advanced reports and alerts
- Advanced threat insights
Advanced
For organisations scaling posture management across subsidiaries.
- Subsidiary management
- 5 MySubsidiary licences
- Subsidiary improvement plan
- Identity Intelligence
There is no list price. Bitsight does not publish one, and BitScore quotes in INR against scope — the factors that move a quote are set out in full on the pricing page.
Where to start
With the number, not the contract. The complimentary Cyber Risk Rating Report gives you your current rating, your peer benchmark and your prioritised findings at no cost — which is enough to establish whether continuous measurement is worth licensing at all. If your more pressing blind spot is the vendor ecosystem rather than your own estate, start with Third-Party Risk Management instead.
Questions people actually ask about SPM.
/01What is Security Posture Management?
Security Posture Management is the continuous measurement of an organisation's own external security performance. It monitors the full internet-facing attack surface daily, expresses the result as a 250 to 900 rating, benchmarks that rating against sector peers, and tracks how it moves as findings are remediated. It replaces the periodic assessment model, in which posture is known accurately on the day of the audit and estimated for the rest of the year.
/02How is SPM different from a vulnerability scanner or a pen test?
A vulnerability scanner enumerates weaknesses on assets you already know about, and a penetration test establishes what an attacker could achieve on a given day. SPM answers a different question: how does your organisation's overall security performance compare to your peers, continuously, in a form a board and an insurer will accept. It also discovers internet-facing assets you had not attributed to yourself, which is frequently where the worst findings live.
/03Which frameworks does SPM map to?
Findings map automatically to NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, and RBI, SEBI and IRDAI expectations, so a control owner can see which framework requirements a given finding affects without maintaining a manual crosswalk. This matters most at audit and board-reporting time, when the question is not "what is broken" but "which obligation does this touch".
/04What is Dynamic Remediation?
Dynamic Remediation projects the score response of a proposed fix before the work is committed. Remediation effort is finite, and findings differ by an order of magnitude in how much they move the rating, so seeing the forecast first lets a team spend its quarter on the twenty findings that matter rather than the two hundred that are merely open.
/05Which SPM edition do we need?
Basic suits organisations whose immediate goal is resolving issues and managing the rating. Standard is the common choice, adding peer analytics, framework intelligence, API and integrations, and the enhanced attack surface management needed to demonstrate resilience rather than just track it. Advanced adds subsidiary management and Identity Intelligence, and is for groups running posture management across multiple entities.
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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