With security leaders facing an onslaught of attacks from ransomware and other cyberthreats, it can be tough to know where to focus their energy. That’s where a “cyber risk score” promises to come to the rescue.
These ratings are like a credit score for cybersecurity. A cyber risk score provides an assessment of an organization’s unique level of exposure to cyberattacks, its performance in terms of dozens of necessary mitigation strategies, and the remaining weak links in its security armor.
Cyberattacks often succeed because of preventable errors, such as failing to install software updates and poor patch management.
Cyber risk scoring can highlight these issues before they lead to a breach. They provide an easy-to-understand, evidence-based way to develop a targeted
