Bitsight Command Center: Cyber Risk Insight Dashboard

Today’s security teams are grappling with a myriad of challenges, primarily driven by disconnected tools and scattered data. As cyber threats evolve at an alarming rate—evidenced by a drastic spike in ransomware incidents, new CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), and an ever-present influx of emerging threats—monitoring an organization’s security posture has never been more complicated. The complexities extend beyond internal systems, encompassing the security of third- and fourth-party vendors. Recent vulnerabilities, such as the GoAnywhere MFT CVE and the MOVEit breach, illustrate how rapidly risk can propagate through an interconnected ecosystem. A single unpatched CVE or zero-day vulnerability can unleash a domino effect of damage and financial loss.

The Bitsight Command Center has emerged as a solution to these challenges. Designed to streamline the assessment of cyber risks, it offers a unified dashboard that consolidates insights from across the Bitsight platform. Security teams can now access key metrics and risk indicators in one intuitive interface.

With the launch of the Bitsight Command Center, the organization takes a significant step forward in achieving comprehensive cyber risk visibility. By integrating previously siloed data into a singular experience, it equips organizations with the capability to better comprehend, prioritize, and act on the most critical risks they face.

The Challenge: Fragmented Views of Risk

Cyber risk data is often scattered across various systems, consisting of performance metrics, vendor assessments, governance documentation, and threat intelligence reports. Each of these perspectives holds inherent value, but when they exist in isolation, security leaders struggle to connect the dots. This fragmentation creates blind spots, particularly between teams that should be collaborating to mitigate risk.

In many organizations, the Security Operations Center (SOC), Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) teams, and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) teams operate in parallel, each locked onto its priorities without a comprehensive understanding of the overall risk landscape. This disconnection can delay or obscure critical insights, leading to missed alerts, duplicated efforts, and inconsistent reporting. Such inefficiencies not only slow response times but also hinder Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) from articulating risks effectively to executive leadership.

The Bitsight Command Center helps mitigate these gaps by providing a cohesive overview of cyber risk across key organizational functions. By aggregating vital information from multiple sectors of the Bitsight platform, it encourages alignment among teams and delivers a clearer, more unified perspective to decision-makers. Over time, this shared visibility will enhance collaboration, facilitate faster insights, and bridge communication gaps between technical teams and business stakeholders—ultimately fostering a collective approach to cyber risk management.

Introducing the Bitsight Command Center

At the core of the Bitsight platform, the newly launched dashboard gathers essential metrics and highlights from five fundamental product areas:

1. Security Performance Management: Offers ongoing visibility into an organization’s security posture, enabling teams to monitor improvements, spot vulnerabilities, and evaluate the effectiveness of their security measures over time.
2. Continuous Monitoring: Provides real-time insights into fluctuations within your digital landscape, empowering security teams to identify emerging risks early and respond proactively.
3. Vendor Risk Management: Facilitates evaluation and monitoring of third- and fourth-party vendors’ security performances to minimize risks arising from the supply chain and interconnected ecosystems.
4. Trust Management Hub: Centralizes governance and documentation processes, streamlining how organizations share and validate security information with stakeholders, clients, and partners.
5. Bitsight Pulse: Delivers a personalized, AI-augmented stream of cyber threat intelligence, keeping teams informed about an array of cybersecurity developments, from ransomware incidents to breaking news.

This initial release represents just the beginning of a unified experience that is expected to evolve into an executive-level risk dashboard for CISOs, offering a connected overview of organizational cyber risk across both internal and external dimensions.

Why It Matters

As observed in recent cyber incidents, third-party vendors have increasingly become prime targets for attackers exploiting vulnerabilities, particularly new CVEs. An example of this is when the CISA issued an emergency directive in response to a vendor breach stemming from a CVE that left numerous clients vulnerable to data loss and other punitive threats. During this breach, source code was compromised, exacerbating the risk of subsequent attacks. This highlights the imperative that organizations must not only secure their own systems but also ensure that their third- and fourth-party vendors are equally protected against cyber threats.

Bitsight researchers have explored vulnerabilities within sectors such as manufacturing and finance, revealing how weaknesses in these fields can reverberate through their clients and partners. A recent Bitsight TRACE report underscored risks linked to industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) devices, often left exposed to CVEs, backdoors, and remote access trojans (RATs). Many of these devices run on outdated infrastructure lacking modern security controls, making them especially vulnerable to exploitation.