Public Disclosure Findings – Bitsight Knowledge Base

December 16, 2022: Get source and see what happened.
April 13, 2021: Moved to the “Findings” section.
August 10, 2020: Published.

The Public Disclosures risk category provides information related to possible incidents of undesirable access to a company’s data, including breaches, general security incidents, and other disclosures.

Finding Details

To get the source and see what happened:

Select the Link in the Highlights of their Security Ratings panel [ Vendor Risk ➔ Overview].
Select the Details button in the Public Disclosures section of the Rating Details page.

The Rating Details page [ Vendor Risk ➔ Overview] includes the following fields:

Field	Description
Category	The type of security incident. See: Breach Security Incident Types General Security Incident Types Other Disclosure Types
Effective Date	The date when a Security Incident event was recorded in the BitSight platform.
Origin	Indicates this company was impacted by a multiparty security incident and whether they were directly or indirectly targeted: Direct: The original target of the attacker, which is directly impacted by the event. Indirect: A third party of the targeted company. It is collaterally impacted by the event.
Public Discovery [Date]	The earliest date when information pertaining to the security incident or self-discovery date became publicly available or when affected parties were notified.
Severity	The severity of the security incident.

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