SecurityScorecard

Every company has the right to a transparent security assessment

The leading cybersecurity assessment platform

for companies in Austria

The increasing dependence on IT systems, both internally and externally, also increases attack surfaces on your company. An external view of your company and the partner ecosystem is necessary in order to objectively represent the extent of the risk potential and to be able to set targeted measures.

With SecurityScorecard, the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, you get a transparent and comprehensible overview of the external IT security assessments and the measures necessary to reduce them.

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The Security Score gives a comprehensive picture of the security level as seen from the outside (Image source: SecurityScorecard)

Only those who know the risks,
can reduce then

SecurityScorecard provides companies with a comprehensive overview via  the IT security assessment of one's own company. The platform develops a plan of action to achieve a better security scoring and supports you in minimization of detected safety deficiencies.

SecurityScorecard not only covers IT security challenges, but also combines topics such as data protection and compliance requirements as well as audit findings. It also offers the possibility of an external IT security assessments of your suppliers and service providers

Security assessment with SecurityScorecard

The platform uses nonintrusive data collection which is analyzed to identify cybersecurity issues. The published score is a weighted average of ten underlying factor scores, which capture an organization’s security posture across multiple dimensions. These 10 criteria are used by SecurityScorecard to create the Security Score, resulting in your risk profile.

Application Security

Network Security

Endpoint Security

Social Engineering

Hacker Chatter

DNS Security

Information Gaps

Cubit Score

IP Reputation

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Why is it important to know your Security Score?

With your security score you can retrieve objective information on the identified security issues. This allows you to assess the potential impact of a security event on your own company.

The platform also develops an action plan to achieve better security scoring and helps you minimize the security deficiencies discovered.

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Example Security Score (Source: SecurityScorecard)

Companies with better security scores are less vulnerable to security incidents

SecurityScorecard, after analyzing 100,000 companies and more than 2,000 security incidents over 3 years, found that companies with a score of "C", "D", "E" or "F" are five times more likely to be victims of security breaches.

Companies with a security score of "F" are 7.7 times more likely to experience security incidents than those rated "A".

Correlation between security score and frequency of security incidents (source: SecurityScorecard)
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ABAX is your partner for SecurityScorecard in Austria

ABAX Informationstechnik has been utilising its experience in innovative IT services for the benefit of its customers since 1995. Our portfolio around Infrastructure, Wiring, and Security solutions makes us a leading provider of security solutions in Austria. Our team of experts can refer to many years of experience with well-known products around network security. As the first partner of SecurityScorecard in Austria, we rely on a world-leading solution for the success of our customers.

Frequently asked questions about security assessments

SecurityScorecard is a risk management platform that enables customers to continuously monitor and assess the cyber health of their security ecosystem. SecurityScorecard scores are calculated as a weighted average of 10 factor scores, each of which assesses a different aspect of an organization’s cybersecurity posture. The numeric values of the factor weights were originally determined by subject matter experts in cybersecurity.

SecurityScorecard, headquartered in New York, NY, is the world's leading provider of cybersecurity ratings with over 5 million companies continuously rated. SecurityScorecard's patented rating technology was founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh.

The most common uses for security assessments are enterprise cyber risk management, third-party risk management, reporting to senior management, and cyber insurance underwriting. Enterprises can increase their resilience by easily finding and remediating cybersecurity risks in their digital footprint.

 

Yes, companies can appeal any score related to their business valuation. An update takes place within a few working days.

Yes, companies 100% control the use of their confidential information.

Example of an SSC report (Image source: SecuityScorecard)

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