What is a Subsidiary? – Bitsight Knowledge Base

Subsidiaries are companies that are within the hierarchy of an organization. They are depicted in an organization’s ratings tree.

SPM App: Organization ➔ Ratings Tree

CM App: Vendor Risk ➔ Ratings Tree

Insurance App: Client Risk ➔ Ratings Tree

Relationships are structured as a parent company and a subsidiary company (child).
If you are the parent company, your subsidiary is a company in your Ratings Tree that is below your company.
A subsidiary can be a parent of another subsidiary, which means some organizations may have multiple levels in their Ratings Tree.

Learn more about subsidiaries:

Topic	Description
Features	My Subsidiary subscription capabilities, compared to rating bundles.
Subsidiary Attribution	Criteria for classifying subsidiaries.
Rating Calculation	How Bitsight Security Ratings are calculated within parent-subsidiary relationships.
Subsidiary Attribution	When viewing your own My Company or subsidiaries in your Ratings Tree, the Findings Table can provide the subsidiary attribution of a finding. Refer to the Attributed To field, which shows subsidiaries attributed to a finding.

November 4, 2024: Linked to an overview of the Ratings Tree page in the SPM app.
October 28, 2024: Findings [page] renamed to Findings Table.
November 2, 2020: Added additional learning links (included features, rating calculation, and subsidiary attribution to findings).

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