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2 ways to make your security infrastructure better than 99% of companies: Start with a zero-trust architecture: Assume that the attackers are going to inevitably break-in. Design a system with zero-trust architecture. To do that, you must: You need to look at how you appear to hackers from outside. Today, with a click of a mouse, attackers can scan the entire Internet and find open ports from companies that are easy to break into.

SecurityScorecard’s CISO Mike Wilkes and Threat Researcher Ryan Slaney discuss their latest insights on the Lapsus$ threat group, the recent Okta breach, and what CISOs should do to protect their organizations. SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over 12 million companies continuously rated. The company is headquartered in New York and operates in 64 countries around the globe.

Here are 2 things that helped us successfully scale SecurityScorecard: Having a customer-first mentality: You need to understand your customers deeply. You need to adopt Amazon’s empty-chair approach where the most important voice is the customers’ voice, not the CEOs’. Beginning with the right foundation: Here’s what most companies get wrong: When they start up and have 10-20 people, they focus on their customers.

According to Forrester and Gartner, we are the leader in the security rating space. 3 reasons why: Massive data set: We’ve rated 12 million organizations worldwide. If an organization is not on the data set, it takes us just a few minutes to rate it while our competitors take days to do the same. Huge marketplace of applications and services: We have 100s of partners that enrich the value of our platform.

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over 12 million companies continuously rated. The company is headquartered in New York and operates in 64 countries around the globe.

Here are 4 simple ways to take care of your organization’s cyber hygiene.

Attack surfaces are the different endpoints, subsidiaries, business units, and devices that a hacker could go after. For example: We have a client who had a Japanese subsidiary that spun up a server for QA testing. They used it for a couple of years and then forgot about it and stopped maintaining it. But the server was still there. And the attackers found it and tried to use it to break into the client’s infrastructure.

70% of the data breaches involve the negligence of a 3rd party. Let’s understand this with Target’s classic example. In 2013, they were using a contractor, Fazio, to do maintenance of their air conditioning systems. The hackers got into the Fazio systems and used it as a jumping pod to infiltrate and hack into Target’s infrastructure. Big companies like Audi and Volkswagen have also suffered such cyberattacks due to 3rd party negligence.

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, empowering you with trusted data and the confidence to make smarter and faster decisions. Security ratings give you an outside-in view of the cybersecurity posture of any organization in the world across ten key risk factor groups. Our Automatic Vendor Detection (AVD) instantly gives you a view of your entire third and fourth-party ecosystem, enabling you to visualize and take proactive steps to mitigate risk.

This video demonstrated the new capabilities of the Digital Footprint feature in Ratings.