Bitsight + AuditBoard/Optro Integration

Applies To: Bitsight Continuous Monitoring users leveraging AuditBoard/Optro’s Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) module.

Overview

AuditBoard/Optro is a cloud-based platform designed to streamline and enhance audit, risk, and compliance management for organizations. It serves as a centralized solution facilitating efficient planning, execution, and tracking of audits, promoting collaboration among teams through customizable templates and automated workflows. This ensures consistency and adherence to compliance standards, with real-time reporting and analytics providing insights into audit progress and findings.

The Bitsight + AuditBoard/Optro Integration allows users to enrich their third-party risk workflows within AuditBoard/Optro by incorporating external cybersecurity ratings and risk indicators from Bitsight. This enables real-time visibility into a vendor’s security posture, improving risk assessment and helping users make more informed decisions.

This is a one-way integration from Bitsight into AuditBoard/Optro. No data is sent back to Bitsight.

Use Cases and Benefits

Real-Time Insights

• Continuously monitor vendors with Bitsight Security Ratings, alerts, and historical cybersecurity performance trends.
• Identify emerging risks early to strengthen proactive vendor risk management.

Enhanced Risk Assessments

• Combine Bitsight’s external cyber risk data with internal AuditBoard/Optro assessments.
• Use ratings and risk vectors as a baseline to determine whether further assessments or actions are warranted.

Actionable Reporting

• Integrate Bitsight risk data directly into AuditBoard/Optro’s reporting and dashboards.
• Provide stakeholders with clear, quantifiable insights into vendor cyber risk.

Integration Capabilities

The initial release of the integration supports the following features:

• Bitsight Security Ratings are pulled into AuditBoard/Optro TPRM.
• Risk Vectors associated with each vendor are available.
• The Ratings History Chart is displayed for trend analysis.

⚠️ Note: This integration does not update any data in Bitsight, nor does it create or modify vendor entries on the Bitsight platform through AuditBoard/Optro. This is a one-way data integration: From Bitsight → To AuditBoard/Optro

Data Flow

Bitsight sends the following data elements to AuditBoard/Optro:

• Vendor Rating
• Risk Vectors
• Historical Ratings Chart

AuditBoard/Optro does not:

• Update or change any information within Bitsight.
• Create or link vendors in the Bitsight platform.

Important: Vendors must first exist in your Bitsight portfolio and be linked within AuditBoard/Optro to be visible in the integration.

Prerequisites

Before setting up the integration, ensure the following requirements are met:

• AuditBoard/Optro TPRM Tier: You must be subscribed to the “Professional” Tier of AuditBoard/Optro’s Third-Party Risk Management solution.
• Bitsight API Token: A valid Bitsight API token is required for authentication.
• Vendor Mapping: Vendors must be subscribed to in your Bitsight Portfolio.

Getting Access

To enable the integration contact your AuditBoard/Optro account representative to initiate access and configuration support.

Support

For technical issues or integration questions:

• For help with setup or troubleshooting, please reach out to your AuditBoard/Optro user Success Manager.
• For Bitsight support /hc/en-us/articles/115000807367-How-to-Get-Help