Alert Category: Public Disclosures

Be alerted of new Public Disclosure events, which are possible incidents of undesirable access to a company’s data, that affect companies in your portfolio. This includes:

• The company
• The company’s subsidiaries
• Fourth parties

Fields

Alert

The incident type.
 

Category

The incident category.

Breach Security Incidents: Serious events that usually result in a successful cyberattack and/or data compromise by unauthorized individuals. These are ratings-impacting.

General Security Incidents: Other kinds of security events that may still affect security ratings. These are considered more severe than Other Disclosures. Some of these incident types are ratings-impacting, while others are informational only and do not impact the rating.

Other Disclosures: Other kinds of publicly disclosed incidents. It’s considered to be the least severe among the Public Disclosures incident categories. Its impact to business continuity is minimal if they were to occur. Therefore, these are informational and do not currently affect Bitsight Security Ratings.
 

Company

The name of the company associated with the alert.
 

Date

The date when the alert was generated.
 

Folder

The folder, tier, or country associated with the alert.