Shared Assessments


BitSight, Black Kite, Panorays, RiskRecon, SecurityScorecard Among “Team of Rivals” Endorsing the New De Facto Standard Shared Assessments introduced the risk industry’s first cybersecurity taxonomy, bringing greater clarity to the definition and identification of cyber events and monitoring surfaces. “A Unified Third Party Continuous Monitoring Cybersecurity Taxonomy” was adopted by […]

Shared Assessments Issues First Ever Unified Third Party Continuous Monitoring ...


By Peter Kelley OneTrust, a fast-growing data privacy, compliance and governance enterprise platform backed by leading VCs, has acquired Shared Assessments, the global membership organization dedicated to developing the best practices, education, and tools to drive third-party risk assurance.  Recent global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Solar Winds […]

OneTrust Acquires Shared Assessments, Third-Party Risk Management Leaders


Yesterday, DivvyCloud, a leading provider of security and compliance automation for cloud and container environments, released its 2020 Cloud Misconfigurations Report. Today, the most circulated security news story is about the personal data of more than 10 million people exposed in a breach of MGM’s cloud servers. The MGM hack […]

Breaches Caused by Cloud Misconfigurations on the Rise




By: Kayla Matthews HackenProof, an Estonia-based cybersecurity firm, reported recently that it discovered a 73-gigabyte database containing 114 million records of approximately 83 million U.S. citizens and companies sitting unprotected online. The data included information such as first and last name, employers, job title, address, phone number, email, and IP […]

Records of 114 Million U.S. Citizen and Companies Exposed Online