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How Your Application Security Posture Affects Your Security Rating

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If you have a mature application security program — threat modeling, SAST in CI/CD, dependency scanning, penetration testing on a regular cadence — you’ve probably assumed that work is largely invisible to external security ratings. You’d be wrong, and the gap is wider than most technical leaders realize.

Security ratings platforms like BitSight and SecurityScorecard are passive observers. They can’t see your source code, your SAST results, or your security review process. But the artifacts of a weak application security program show up on the public internet constantly, and that’s exactly what they’re looking at.

Security Ratings in Government Procurement: What Vendors Need to Know

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A few years ago, a GovTech vendor could reasonably expect that a government agency’s security review would consist of a questionnaire, maybe a SOC 2 report request, and a phone call with someone in IT. That’s changing. Security ratings have become a standard tool in government procurement, and they’re increasingly showing up not as advisory data points but as hard pass/fail gates.

If you sell into federal, state, or local government — or into enterprises that sell into government — understanding how this works is not optional anymore.

What Actually Moves Your BitSight Score

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You got the email. Procurement ran a BitSight scan and your score came back at 710. The threshold is 780. The deal is on hold. Now you’re googling “how to improve BitSight score” at 11pm and getting SEO content that explains what BitSight is instead of telling you what to actually do.

This is for you.

What BitSight Is Actually Measuring

BitSight doesn’t scan your systems. It passively observes signals that are already visible to anyone on the internet — DNS records, SSL certificates, traffic to known malicious IPs, data from internet-wide scanning projects like Shodan and Censys, and breach datasets. It then assigns those observations to your organization’s IP space and domains.