Cyber Risk

Discerning Cyber Risk: A Scores-Forward Approach to Third-Party Cyber Risk Management

With fully 30% of reported cyber incidents involving a company’s vendors or other business partners, the management of third-party risks (TPRM) is a critical component of a holistic cybersecurity strategy. Traditional TPRM programs rely heavily on questionnaire-based assessments, which suffer from inherent biases, a lack of objectivity, and a significant administrative burden.

Download the report to discover:

  • TPRM Strategies: how the strategic use of an empirical cyber risk scoring system, providing a data-driven assessment distilled to a decision-ready metric – such as the ISS Cyber Risk Score – can reduce the need for questionnaire-driven inputs and increase the objectivity and currency of critical cyber risk insights.
  • Actionable Insights: the benefits of objective, continuously updated risk intelligence for establishing a strategically-informed TPRM program and how that program can help