Independent Cyber Security Vendor Assessment with CyberRatings
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By Steve Chambers
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When security practitioners research products as part of their purchasing due diligence, they look for independent and objective reviews that inform their decision. This is exactly what Cyber Ratings does for security products and services.
What IT Security product assessment challenges does Cyber Ratings address?
It can be a struggle to find independent or objective evaluation of technology. Good vendors will provide case studies, use cases, testimonials, and ratings, but what prospects really want is independent and objective analysis and product ratings.
A Product Rating is a forecast, an expert opinion about a product’s capacity to meet its obligations to consumers over time. Product ratings inform consumers — enhancing transparency and enabling them to focus on considerations that are most critical to their organizations
CyberRatings.org helps organizations navigate the cybersecurity landscape, providing them with reliable information to make informed decisions about the cybersecurity products and services they use.
There are six things that Cyber Ratings assess:
Browser security
Cloud network firewall
Endpoint protection
Enterprise firewall
Security services bridge
SDWAN
What are the benefits of Cyber Ratings?
We all read vendor marketing to learn about a topic. But, it’s like learning cards in a casino. The big benefit of Cyber Ratings is that they will teach you how to play cards, but they aren’t a casino:
Map technologies to controls and scenarios Define and track performance acceptability thresholds for the different technologies in relation to specific controls and different loss scenarios
Match products to scenarios Identify relevant potential products for critical loss scenarios
Advise cloud transformation Analyze and plan for cloud transformation and changes to the traditional risk profiles