비트사이트

BitSight
비트사이트
유형사적인
산업사이버 보안, 리스크 관리, 보안
설립.2011년[1]
설립자
  • 나가르주나 베나
  • 스티븐 보이어
본사미국 보스턴[2] 백베이
주요 인물
CEO[3] Stephen Harvey
웹 사이트www.bitsight.com

BitSight는 기업, 정부 기관 및 교육 [4][5]기관을 분석하는 사이버 보안 등급 회사입니다.그것은 보스턴의 [1][2]백베이에 근거지를 두고 있다.BitSight에 의해 제공되는 보안 등급은 [6]은행과 보험사 등에서 사용됩니다.이 회사는 사이버 보안에 [7]관해 200,000개 이상의 조직을 평가하고 있습니다.

역사

BitSight는 2011년 Nagarjuna Venna와 Stephen Boyer에 의해 설립되었으며 현재 미국 및 해외 직원을 [1][2]모두 보유하고 있습니다.2016년,[1] BitSight는 9월에 4,000만 달러의 자금을 조달했습니다.

2014년 BitSight는 실시간 데이터 [8][9]위협을 추적하는 포르투갈 소재 사이버 보안 회사인 AnubisNetworks를 인수했습니다.

2016년 9월까지 BitSight는 Flybridge Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Shaun McConnon 및 Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures 및 Sing8 [10][11][12]Tel Innovation의 VC 부문 참여로 GGV Capital이 주도하는 시리즈 C 라운드에서 4,000만 달러를 조달했습니다.

숀 맥코넌은 2017년 7월 비트사이트 CEO에서 물러났지만 이사회 [13]의장을 맡고 있다.CEO 자리는 2017년 [13]톰 터너, 2020년 [3]스티븐 하비에 의해 채워졌다.

2018년 6월, BitSight는 시리즈 D의 자금 조달로 6000만달러가 종료되어, 동사의 자금 조달 [14]총액은 1억5500만달러가 되었다.BitSight의 시리즈 D 파이낸싱은 Warburg Pincus가 주도하고 기존 투자자인 Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital 및 Singtel Innov8이 [14][15]참여했습니다.

2018년에는 캠브리지에 있었지만 현재 BitSight가 [2]위치한 Back Bay로 이전하기 위해 부동산을 구입했다.Forbes는 [16]BitSight의 수익을 2018년 기준으로 1억 달러로 추산했습니다.

서비스

조직은 "비즈니스 [17][18][19]파트너와 기밀 데이터를 공유할 때 발생하는 보안 위험"을 이해하기 위해 BitSight의 서비스를 구입합니다.2018년 현재 BitSight는 Lowe, AIG 및 Safeway를 [20][16][21]포함한 고객에게 서비스를 제공하고 있습니다.

BitSight는 보험사가 [22]보험료를 받을 수 있는 능력을 결정할 수 있는 척도를 기반으로 회사 등급을 산출하는 모델을 조립합니다.2020년 [7]현재 20만 개 조직에 대한 평가를 실시하고 있습니다.

포브스의 Amy Feldman은 서비스에 대해 다음과 같이 쓰고 있습니다."고객들은 한 회사를 분석하기 위해 수천 달러에서 수천 개의 [23]공급업체를 검토하기 위해 100만 달러 이상의 연회비를 지불합니다."신용점수와 마찬가지로 BitSight의 등급은 250에서 [24]900까지이다.

비트사이트는 1만8996개 [25]업체가 집계한 6개 업종 랜섬웨어 감염 조사 보고서를 발표했다.이러한 보안 등급에는 "교육, 에너지/유틸리티, 재무, 정부, 의료 및 소매"[25] 섹터에 걸친 랜섬웨어 감염 검사가 포함됩니다.

레퍼런스

  1. ^ a b c d O'Brien, Kelly J. (16 May 2018). "BitSight to double HQ size in move from Cambridge to Boston". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d Jon Chesto (17 May 2018). "Investors dump GE shares". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 11 October 2018. Cybersecurity ratings firm BitSight is setting its sights on a move to the Back Bay, to a space that is roughly double the size of its existing headquarters in Cambridge. The venture capital-backed firm has leased 48,000 square feet across two floors in the Prudential Center, at the 111 Huntington Ave. tower owned by Boston Properties. BitSight currently employs about 145 people in Cambridge, but will likely have 170 by January and another 30-plus by the end of next year after it moves to Boston.
  3. ^ a b "BitSight Appoints Stephen Harvey as Chief Executive Officer". PR Newswire. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  4. ^ Romo, Vanessa (30 March 2018). "As Atlanta Seeks To Restore Services, Ransomware Attacks Are On The Rise". NPR. Retrieved 10 October 2018. Data compiled by BitSight, a cybersecurity ratings company, is even more staggering. A 2016 report analyzing government, health care, finance, retail, education and utilities concluded that education institutions are most likely to be on the receiving end of a ransomware attack.
  5. ^ Clarke, Richard (13 June 2017). "Why is it so easy for hackers to infiltrate - our mistakes". Quartz. Retrieved 11 October 2018. BitSight, a Boston firm that ranks companies for their level of cybersecurity, compared five industries: health care, finance, retail, utilities, and federal agencies.
  6. ^ Lunden, Ingrid (10 July 2018). "BitSight, a provider of security ratings, raises $60M at a valuation of around $600M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 11 October 2018. . Typical customers include large to mid-sized organizations, and while BitSight doesn't provide specific names it says the list includes seven of the top 10 cyber insurers, 20 percent of Fortune 500 companies, and three of the top five investment banks, an impressive list. Others that use these ratings are cyber insurance companies, when devising what kind of rates to charge customers, and also to monitor those customers after they are insured. And they are also used by companies, Turner says, to assess acquisition targets when a company is going through due diligence; or before making investments.
  7. ^ a b Whitney, Lance (21 January 2020). "Windows 7 remains an albatross at many large organizations". TechRepublic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  8. ^ Reader, Ruth (21 October 2014). "Security ratings company BitSight acquires threat analytics service". VentureBeat. Retrieved 11 October 2018. Security ratings company BitSight Technologies just picked up a small Portugal-based threat intelligence company called AnubisNetworks.
  9. ^ Castellanos, Sara (23 October 2014). "BitSight Technologies acquires cybersecurity firm AnubisNetworks". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 10 October 2018. Cambridge-based BitSight Technologies, which rates businesses on their cyber security performance, has acquired Portugal firm AnubisNetworks, which tracks real-time data threats.
  10. ^ Zakrzewski, Cat (15 September 2016). "Cybersecurity Ratings Startup BitSight Raises $40M". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 October 2018. BitSight Technologies Inc. has raised $40 million to provide security ratings. GGV Capital led the Series C round, with participation from existing investors Flybridge Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures and the company's chief executive, Shaun McConnon. The venture arms of Comcast Ventures, Liberty Global Ventures and Signtel Innov8 also participated.
  11. ^ Woodward, Curt (15 September 2016). "BitSight raises $40M to expand IT security ratings software". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 10 October 2018. Investors are pouring another $40 million into BitSight Technologies Inc., a Cambridge startup that analyzes Internet traffic to generate the equivalent of a credit score for a company's risk of cybersecurity attacks.
  12. ^ Kuchler, Hannah (8 January 2017). "Insurers tap cyber security ratings to limit liabilities". Financial Times. Bitsight recently announced a fundraising of $40m, led by GGV Capital, as it expands to cater for insurers' desire to know more about the security weaknesses of their potential — and existing — customers.
  13. ^ a b O'Brien, Kelly J. (30 July 2017). "Longtime cybersecurity exec to step down as BitSight CEO". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 11 October 2018. He's adamant that he's not retiring, but after leading three Massachusetts cybersecurity companies to $1 billion worth of total exit value and a fourth to the verge of an IPO, Shaun McConnon is done being a CEO at his latest company. McConnon will step down as CEO of Cambridge-based cybersecurity ratings company BitSight Technologies Inc. on July 1, but will stay on as the executive chairman of BitSight's board. BitSight's chief operating officer Tom Turner will take over as top executive.
  14. ^ a b Lunden, Ingrid (10 July 2018). "BitSight, a provider of security ratings, raises $60M at a valuation of around $600M". TechCrunch. Retrieved 10 October 2018. BitSight, which provides an ongoing, changing "risk security posture" of some 1,200 organizations, has raised $60 million in a Series D round led by Warburg Pincus, funding that it will use to expand its risk management solutions — specifically in areas like analytics — and overall business development. This brings the total raised by BitSight to $155 million. Tom Turner, BitSight's CEO, said the company was not disclosing its valuation with this round, but he hinted that it was ten times more than the company's valuation at its Series A. That round, according to figures from PitchBook, was at $60 million post-money, meaning that the company is now valued at around $600 million. Others in this round include Menlo Ventures, GGV Capital and Singtel Innov8, all previous investors.
  15. ^ Jim Finkle, Bill Rigby (15 September 2016). "Cyber-ratings firm BitSight raises $40 million, GGV Capital leads round". Reuters. Reuters. Retrieved 11 October 2018. BitSight Technologies, a firm that sells cyber security ratings on businesses to insurers, said on Thursday that it has closed $40 million in series C funding, in a round led by GGV Capital. Previous investors that joined the round include Flybridge Capital Partners, Globespan Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures and Shaun McConnon.
  16. ^ a b Feldman, Amy (14 December 2016). "Meet The 72-Year-Old 'Whiz Kid' Behind Cybersecurity Startup BitSight". Forbes. Retrieved 11 October 2018. FORBES estimates BitSight's revenues will reach $50 million in 2017 and $100 million in 2018, when McConnon hopes to take the company public. He expects it to be profitable by 2019.
  17. ^ Sawers, Paul (15 September 2016). "BitSight raises $40 million to help companies rate partner firms' cybersecurity credentials". VentureBeat. Retrieved 11 October 2018. Founded in 2011, BitSight offers a platform that helps companies mitigate security risks associated with sharing sensitive data with business partners.
  18. ^ Schoenberg, Carter (16 January 2018). "Cyber insurance in the 2018 regulatory landscape". CSO. Retrieved 11 October 2018. Some firms have tools for existing clients or potential clients to measure how good of a risk they are. Some firms are using BitSight or similar technologies.
  19. ^ Olcott, Jacob (12 February 2015). "Q&A: BitSight Technologies' new VP of business development talks cybersecurity". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 11 October 2018. This is Olcott's sixth week at BitSight Technologies, a four-year-old company that rates businesses on their cyber security performance — which has proven to be an essential service for organizations looking for third-party vendors they can trust.
  20. ^ Yakowicz, Will (19 September 2017). "In an Era of Major Hacks, Cyber Insurance May Be the Industry's Riskiest Bet Yet". Inc. Retrieved 11 October 2018. But that long history of data on past catastrophes does not exist in the cyber insurance policy world, says Stephen Boyer, the CTO and co-founder of risk-rating company BitSight, a company that assesses company risk for cyber policies written by AIG, Travelers, and others.
  21. ^ Woodward, Curt (15 September 2016). "BitSight raises $40M to expand IT security ratings software". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 11 October 2018. BitSight customers, which include Lowe's, Ferrari, and The Hartford, use the startup's security ratings when they're deciding whether to do business with another company — buying its products, making an acquisition offer, or writing an insurance contract, Turner said.
  22. ^ Kuchler, Hannah (8 January 2017). "Insurers tap cyber security ratings to limit liabilities". Financial Times. Then, it creates a model that rates companies on a scale and insurers use the rating to decide if applicants get coverage.
  23. ^ Feldman, Amy (14 December 2016). "Meet The 72-Year-Old 'Whiz Kid' Behind Cybersecurity Startup BitSight". Forbes. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  24. ^ Perlroth, Nicole (7 May 2017). "Hackers Find Celebrities' Weak Links in Their Vendor Chains". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 October 2018. BitSight uses a scoring system of 250 to 900, similar to a credit score. SecurityScorecard gives grades from A to F.
  25. ^ a b Murnane, Kevin (21 September 2016). "It's Not Only About Healthcare: BitSight Reports Ransomware Has Infected Many Industries". Forbes. Retrieved 11 October 2018.

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