Cyber rating - Security Rating®
The external attack surface of organizations changes every day. Vulnerabilities emerge, configurations drift, threats grow more sophisticated. And yet, the majority of organizations only have a point-in-time view of their cyber exposure — one that quickly becomes obsolete in the face of today's threat landscape. One question is essential for every CISO, CIO, CEO, or risk management officer:
What assets of my organization are exposed on the Internet, which vulnerabilities can be exploited, and what about my suppliers and subsidiaries?
Security Rating® enables you to:
The external attack surface of organisations has never been wider. Exposed infrastructure, cloud services, email systems, misconfigured TLS/SSL certificates, unpatched vulnerabilities… every digital asset visible on the internet is a potential target. And the threat no longer comes solely from an organisation’s own assets: a poorly secured third party (supplier, service provider, subsidiary) can become the gateway for a devastating cyberattack.
Point-in-time audits only provide a static snapshot that quickly becomes obsolete
Penetration tests are intrusive, costly, and do not cover the entire external attack surface
Manual questionnaires sent to suppliers are time-consuming, subjective, and difficult to consolidate
The lack of a clear score and reporting intelligible to leadership makes any strategic cybersecurity management highly complex
Security Rating® was designed to address all of these challenges simultaneously: an automated, non-intrusive, continuous assessment that produces an objective and actionable score for your organization and your entire ecosystem.
Security Rating® is a 100% automated, non-intrusive SaaS solution that identifies, classifies and analyses assets exposed publicly on the internet. It generates an objective cyber maturity score, updated daily, which is translated into practical recommendations for each area of analysis.
This is the same approach used by your cyber adversaries to map your attack surface before exploiting it, or by your business partners and investors to assess your cyber maturity before engaging with you. A rating agency, an investment fund or a major client is probably already doing this continuously on your organisation, without your knowledge. Security Rating® allows you to see exactly what they see and to improve accordingly.
Security Rating® assigns each organisation an overall score of 0 to 1,000, summarising its cyber maturity, as well as a grade from A to E for each of the seven areas of analysis. This dual-level approach enables communication tailored to each audience: senior management, the executive committee, technical teams and partners.
Security Rating® analyses all of an organisation’s external exposure vectors, grouped into two main categories:
Control measures: what is exposed and how it is protected
Performance metrics: how the organisation responds to threats
****Focus: Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) – why is it a key indicator?
Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) refers to the analysis of data relating to active threats targeting an organisation: the presence of IP addresses or domains on global blacklists, compromised credentials circulating on the dark web, and infrastructure associated with known malicious campaigns. Unlike other areas of analysis that assess what is configured, CTI indicators reveal what has already happened or what is currently happening. It is often the earliest warning sign of an ongoing breach, and one of the least monitored by organisations that do not have a dedicated CTI programme. These indicators are powered by ANOZR WAY, a specialist in human cyber risk management and personal protection. Their expertise covers, in particular, the exposure of employees and executives, as well as the detection of compromised personal and professional data on the dark web. Security Rating® integrates these indicators natively, without the need for an additional subscription to threat intelligence feeds.
Security Rating® includes a multi-organisation view to centralise the management of cyber risk across your entire ecosystem: subsidiaries, critical suppliers, partners and associated companies.
Available in French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish — designed for international organizations.
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Traditional cybersecurity audits, penetration tests, configuration audits and manual questionnaires have inherent limitations when it comes to addressing the reality of today’s threats: they are costly, time-consuming, require the target’s cooperation, and their results become obsolete almost immediately.
| Criteria | Security Rating® | Traditional Point-in-Time Audit |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment method | ✅ 100% automated, non-intrusive | ❌ Audit requiring custom tooling setup |
| Analysis frequency | ✅ Continuous, daily updates | ❌ Point-in-time (once a year on average) |
| Readable synthetic score | ✅ Score 0–1,000 + A to E rating | ❌ Technical report often unreadable by leadership |
| Coverage | ✅ 7 domains, control & performance measures | ⚠️ Varies by provider |
| CTI indicators (threat intel) | ✅ Natively included | ❌ Often absent or available as a paid add-on |
| Industry benchmark | ✅ Min / avg / max sector comparison | ❌ Not available |
| Multi-organization view | ✅ Consolidated dashboard (subsidiaries, suppliers) | ❌ Single-entity view only |
| Automated executive report | ✅ Ready-to-use summary report | ❌ Time-consuming manual writing |
| Assessment without target cooperation | ✅ Possible (public data) | ❌ Requires access and cooperation |
| Immediate availability | ✅ Score available within a few hours | ❌ Delivery takes several weeks |
Security Rating® offers a fundamentally different approach:
Security Rating® is a fully hosted SaaS solution. No installation is required on the client side. As the analysis relies exclusively on publicly available data on the internet, it is by nature non-intrusive and does not require access to the information systems of the organisation being assessed. Informing the third party of the process remains good practice and is often the starting point for productive collaboration on securing the ecosystem.
Enter the main domain name of the organization to be assessed on the Board of Cyber platform
Security Rating® automatically collects and analyzes publicly available data on the Internet related to that domain (exposed assets, configurations, vulnerabilities, CTI…)
A global score from 0–1,000 and an A to E rating per domain are generated, available within a few hours for an initial assessment
The platform updates the score daily to reflect the real-time evolution of the cyber posture
Access prioritized recommendations, summary and detailed reports, and the multi-organization dashboard from your workspace
Mid-size companies, SMEs, insurance brokers, private equity funds, local authorities, notaries, lawyers... Board of Cyber supports a wide range of organizations based on their needs.
"We have a perfect understanding of our external exposure surface across all the group's offices. Thanks to the score, we are able to communicate about our maturity level."
Frédéric SOULIER, Deputy CIO and CISO, CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats
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Cybersecurity has become a decisive factor in investment decisions. A cyber incident can significantly devalue a holding, expose the fund to liability, and jeopardize an acquisition. Security Rating® enables investment teams to integrate cyber risk into their due diligence and portfolio monitoring processes, without relying on the cooperation of target companies.
For large organizations, the attack surface is no longer limited to their own perimeter: every critical supplier, every subsidiary, every service provider is a potential extension of their cyber risk. Security Rating® enables organizations to structure and automate the management of this risk at scale.
For SMEs and mid-size companies, cybersecurity is often seen as a complex, costly topic reserved for large organizations. Security Rating® changes that perception: within a few hours, with no installation and no prior technical expertise, you get a clear and objective view of your cyber exposure — whether your IT is managed in-house or outsourced to a provider.
Financial institutions are increasingly integrating cyber risk into their credit and underwriting risk assessment models. Security Rating® provides objective, up-to-date and comparable data to enrich these models without intrusive audits.
Local authorities and public organizations are increasingly targeted by cyber attackers, with direct consequences on the continuity of services to citizens. Security Rating® enables public entities to understand their level of exposure and prioritize their security actions, even with limited internal resources.
A cyber score is an objective rating assigned to an organization to quantify its external cybersecurity level. It is calculated from the automated analysis of digital assets exposed on the Internet: service configurations, TLS/SSL certificates, email, known vulnerabilities, indicators of compromise... This score distills a complex reality into a single indicator readable by everyone — leadership, CISOs, partners, insurers, and investors.
Security Rating® automatically and non-intrusively analyzes all publicly exposed digital assets on the Internet for a given domain. The analysis covers 7 domains: attack surface, email, Web TLS/SSL, security controls, vulnerabilities, patching performance, and CTI indicators. A global score from 0 to 1,000 is assigned, along with an A to E rating for each domain. The score is updated daily to reflect the real-time evolution of the cyber posture.
Yes. Security Rating® relies exclusively on publicly available data on the Internet — no access to the internal network, no agent installation, no interaction required with the assessed organization. This approach makes it possible to evaluate any organization, even without its cooperation, which is particularly valuable for due diligence processes, supplier assessments, and portfolio monitoring.
A penetration test is an attack simulation carried out by experts, requiring system access, coordination with the target, and several weeks of work. Its result is a snapshot at a single point in time. Security Rating® is a continuous, automated, and non-intrusive assessment that permanently analyzes the organization's external exposure. The two approaches are complementary: Security Rating® provides a real-time view of the attack surface, while the pentest dives deep into internal systems.
Yes. NIS2 and DORA require organizations to demonstrate active risk management, including third-party risk. Security Rating® provides an objective and continuous assessment of the cyber posture, exportable reports usable during audits, and traceability of improvement over time. For organizations subject to DORA, monitoring the cyber risk of critical third-party providers is an explicit obligation that Security Rating® helps structure.
Yes, this is one of the core use cases of Security Rating®. The multi-organization dashboard enables simultaneous monitoring of the cyber rating of an entire portfolio, supplier chain, or group of subsidiaries. Each entity has its own score and recommendations, visible from a consolidated view that enables comparisons and action prioritization.
Security Rating® integrates naturally with Trust HQ®, Board of Cyber's cyber governance and TPRM platform. The cyber scores of your suppliers assessed by Security Rating® can directly feed your TPRM program and governance dashboards in Trust HQ®. This integration delivers a unified view: objective third-party risk (Security Rating®) + governance and action plans (Trust HQ®).
