USTelecom urges cyber rating firms to adjust practices for measuring risk posture

Cyber rating firms should make adjustments to increase the accuracy of their processes to measure risk and minimize negative impacts on internet service providers, according to a recent report from USTelecom.

“Cybersecurity ratings provide important insights on a company’s risk posture, but if the methodologies for determining these ratings are flawed, it can lead to inaccuracies and misrepresentations of their security capabilities and cause a variety of reputational and economic harms,” USTelecom's Robert Mayer said in a Jan. 11 ...