Get a future-focused view of your company’s cyber risk
Through continuous monitoring and analysis, we give you an objective, outside-in view of your cyber security posture so you can better identify and mitigate your cyber risk exposure.
Protect your business with an evidence-based view of your risk
Our Cyber Risk Score can give you a clear, evidence-based assessment of your forward-looking cyber risk. Our empirically derived model is trained on real breach events and bases your score on billions of risk signal data points.
With this knowledge, you’ll understand where your organization and its stakeholders may be exposed—empowering you to take proactive steps to strengthen your security posture.
We have the right solutions to help meet your unique needs and reduce your risk
Conduct a self-assessment of your cyber risk
- See how investors and other stakeholders view your organization’s current and future cyber risk
- Gain insights into externally observable technical risks that could lead to future security incidents
- Come prepared with empirical data when having conversations with investors, regulators, insurers and board members
Compare and benchmark against peer organizations
- See how your cyber risk posture stacks up against industry peers to identify best practices and areas for improvement
- Track changes across peer companies to spot emerging risks through continuous monitoring and alerting
Manage risk with third parties
- Evaluate the cyber risk of new vendors on an individual or aggregate basis
- Uncover third- and fourth-party aggregate risks that could expose your organization to potential breaches
- Get notified when companies you do business with experience a cyber incident
- Identify hidden risks in your supply chain
Assess and quantify cyber risk for insurance underwriting
- Build risk-based pricing scenarios and develop risk-weighted probable maximum loss (PML) estimates
- Use scenario modeling to simulate potential cyber incidents and their potential impact on your organization
- Get a continuously updated view of 3rd and 4th party aggregate exposures
See your company’s rating
Get access to your cyber risk score to see how investors and other stakeholders view your security posture.
Named Category Winner for Cyber Risk Analytics – Indexing and Benchmarking in the Chartis Research RiskTech100® 2027 Report
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A rigorous methodology to meet a market imperative
You know how important it is to protect your business against cyber incidents—and so do your investors. Staying on top of your ISS Cyber Risk Score not only helps you to gauge your cyber risk posture, but it signals to the market that you’re taking the threat seriously. That’s why your score is derived from six broad categories of signal data to give you an accurate assessment of your threat level.
Our machine learning model continuously ingests billions of data points to infer hidden variables empirically associated with a higher likelihood of cyber incidents. The resulting score is a scaled representation of the odds of a significant cyber incident for your firm over the next 12 months.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The ISS STOXX Cyber Risk Score is offered to institutional investors through its responsible investment arm of ISS STOXX, as a means for investors to understand forward-looking cyber incident risk and as an insightful tool for more meaningful issuer engagement. Separately, ISS-Corporate makes the Cyber Risk Score available to companies for self-assessment, peer benchmarking, and third-party risk management. The Cyber Risk Score provides a future-focused, outside-in view of your company’s cyber risk through continuous monitoring and analysis.
The Cyber Risk Score is informed by multiple categories of externally observable cyber risk indicators, including internet presence, endpoint compromise signals, firmographic characteristics, website signals, exposed services, and exposed infrastructure. These risk indicators are continuously analyzed to identify patterns associated with cyber risk exposure.
By evaluating a broad range of technical and organizational signals, the score provides a data-driven view of an organization’s cyber risk profile.
The Cyber Risk Score is informed by multiple categories of externally observable cyber risk indicators, including internet presence, endpoint compromise signals, firmographic characteristics, website signals, exposed services, and exposed infrastructure.
These risk indicators are continuously analyzed to identify patterns associated with cyber risk exposure. By evaluating a broad range of technical and organizational signals, the score provides a data-driven view of an organization’s cyber risk profile.
The Cyber Risk Score helps boards and management teams communicate cyber risk using a consistent, data-driven metric. Organizations can use the score to monitor cyber risk trends, benchmark their risk posture against peers, and support discussions around cyber governance, enterprise risk management, and cybersecurity program effectiveness. The score can also help provide additional context during conversations with boards, executives, insurers, regulators, and other stakeholders.
Yes. ISS-Corporate helps organizations evaluate cyber risk across vendors, suppliers, business partners, and other third parties.
Organizations can assess the cyber risk of individual vendors, monitor broader third-party exposure, receive notifications of cyber incidents affecting key partners, and identify potential concentrations of risk within their supply chain. These insights can help strengthen third-party risk management and vendor oversight programs.
Cyber risk benchmarking enables organizations to compare their cyber risk profile against industry peers, competitors, and other relevant organizations. By evaluating relative cyber risk levels and monitoring changes over time, organizations can identify areas of strength, uncover potential weaknesses, and better understand how their cyber risk posture compares within their sector. These insights can support cybersecurity planning, risk management, and board reporting.
For more information about Cyber Risk Benchmarking, please refer to our guide.
Yes. Cyber insurers, brokers, and risk professionals can use cyber risk scoring and analytics to support cyber risk assessment, portfolio monitoring, and underwriting activities.
The platform provides an independent view of cyber risk exposure that can complement traditional underwriting information and support risk evaluation, scenario analysis, and portfolio-level cyber risk monitoring.
ISS-Corporate provides access to cyber risk advisors who can help organizations understand scoring results, benchmark performance, and identify key risk drivers.
Our experts help clients interpret cyber risk findings, understand changes in risk posture over time, and make more effective use of cyber risk intelligence within broader risk management, governance, and reporting processes.
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