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SecurityScorecard: The grade is just the beginning
A letter grade made cyber risk easier to understand. SecurityScorecard’s next challenge is getting thousands of companies to do something about it.
Bitsight gave cyber risk a number. Now comes the hard part.
A security score can start a conversation. Bitsight’s bigger bet is that connecting that score to vendors, exposed systems and criminal activity can tell a company what to fix next.
Panorays Turns the Spreadsheet Nobody Wants Into a Risk Decision You Can Defend
The vendor questionnaire was built for a slower internet. Panorays is betting that a live map of suppliers, attack surfaces and business impact can turn weeks of cyber due diligence into a decision made in days.
UpGuard Turned a Month-Long Vendor Security Review Into One Week
Its pitch to lean security teams is refreshingly practical: stop chasing questionnaires and disconnected alerts, then turn outside-in evidence into a decision someone can defend.
Black Kite
Black Kite is a Boston-based cybersecurity company that rates and monitors the cyber risk posed by an organization's third-party vendors and supply chain. Built from a hacker's perspective, its platform combines non-intrusive external assessments, ransomware-likelihood scoring, standards-based compliance mapping, and Open FAIR financial-impact modeling so risk teams can see, quantify, and act on the exposure hiding inside their vendor ecosystem.