Comparing and quantifying your cybersecurity posture against peer organizations in the financial sector provides valuable context for how your cybersecurity program performs relative to others in your industry. Digital Defense’s Frontline Insight™ peer comparison report in the Frontline.Cloud™ vulnerability and threat management platform provides actionable and detailed intelligence that helps your team get a valuable perspective on their effectiveness.
Related Resource: Frontline Security GPA®: Making the Grade with Risk-Based Prioritization
Grading the Financial Industry
The primary security rating metric used in the Frontline Insight report is Frontline Security GPA®. Predicated on a 4.0 & A-F grading scale, and like a grade point average in school, the higher your Security GPA, the better your security posture.
Security GPA is a weighted score based on asset criticality and the number and the severity level of active vulnerabilities. It reflects even the smallest changes to your environment that other VM systems often do not.
We ran Frontline Insight reports on our bank, credit union, and financial services clients to gain insight into the threat and vulnerability preparedness across the financial sector.*
Comparing Cohorts
The chart below provides the 12-month average Security GPAs for internal and external scanning and compares 2020 scores with the same period in 2019. For additional context, the Security GPAs for banks, credit unions, and financial services firms were averaged to calculate an overall financial industry GPA for internal and external vulnerability scanning.
All financial verticals performed above the platform average Security GPA for both their internal (2.72 B-) and extern ..
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