· FICO has acquired QuadMetrics, a firm that uses predictive analytics to rate the security of an organisation
· QuadMetrics’ products will complement the FICO Falcon Cybersecurity Analytics threat detection solution
· A FICO Enterprise Security Score is to be rolled out
Analytic software firm FICO announced today that it is developing a FICO Enterprise Security Score which will rank an organisation’s level of cybersecurity risk. To further this effort, FICO has acquired QuadMetrics, a cyber risk security scoring company from the US.
QuadMetrics leverages predictive analytics to monitor signals from open source and proprietary data sources to provide an overall security score for an enterprise. The transaction has closed, and terms have not been disclosed.
The FICO Enterprise Security Score, a complement to FICO Falcon Cybersecurity Analytics for threat detection, will be an easy-to-understand metric that will facilitate board-level risk assessment, third-party vendor management, and cyber breach insurance underwriting. Along with a score, the product will provide current threat profile characteristics and granular insights into potential security issues.
FICO Falcon Cybersecurity Analytics are based on the patented behavioural analytics that have made the FICO Falcon Fraud Platform the world leader in payment card protection. With this acquisition and the infusion of FICO’s analytic scoring methods, FICO will provide both cybersecurity defences and an enterprise-level “cyber score” that gives an empirical, impartial measure of a company’s security.
The new product will leverage both quantitative and qualitative insights to assess and understand the risk of an organisation’s network assets. It will also help organisations manage similar risks associated with third parties, and enable breach insurance brokers and underwriters to better and more consistently assess enterprise risk.
“We believe cybersecurity can only be substantially and sustainably improved through creating a strong ecosystem, and a vital part of that ecosystem is a common rating that all parties can use to evaluate cyber risk,” said Doug Clare, VP of cybersecurity solutions at FICO. “We’re excited to have the QuadMetrics team – and their deep expertise – joining us in our efforts to fight cybercrime and help all organisations improve their visibility and insights into cyber risk. Just as the FICO Score gave credit markets a single metric for understanding credit risk, this product will give the industry a common view of enterprise cybersecurity risk.”
“While all organisations are leveraging both sophisticated software and expert guidance to protect themselves from cyber attacks, it is increasingly important that other dependent parties have a common means of assessing the effectiveness of those efforts,” said Wes Huffstutter, CEO of QuadMetrics. “Clients, partners, underwriters and regulators have a stake in understanding an organisation's level of cyber risk. FICO’s Enterprise Security Scores will provide the transparency, consistency and confidence required to strengthen the entire security ecosystem.”
In acquiring QuadMetrics, FICO becomes the exclusive licensee of QuadMetrics’ intellectual property and pending patents, and gains access to development data for additional analytics research. FICO will enhance the solution with its catalogue of proprietary analytics methods and its experience in developing, marketing and distributing broad-based scores for managing different classes of risks across industries. A FICO-branded and enhanced version of the QuadMetrics offering will be launched later this summer (roughly Q2 to Q3).
In related news, FICO announced in April that it had partnered with iboss Cybersecurity to embed its artificial intelligence-based cyber analytics as part of the iboss node-based, direct-to-cloud, containerised platform.
· QuadMetrics’ products will complement the FICO Falcon Cybersecurity Analytics threat detection solution
· A FICO Enterprise Security Score is to be rolled out
Analytic software firm FICO announced today that it is developing a FICO Enterprise Security Score which will rank an organisation’s level of cybersecurity risk. To further this effort, FICO has acquired QuadMetrics, a cyber risk security scoring company from the US.
QuadMetrics leverages predictive analytics to monitor signals from open source and proprietary data sources to provide an overall security score for an enterprise. The transaction has closed, and terms have not been disclosed.
The FICO Enterprise Security Score, a complement to FICO Falcon Cybersecurity Analytics for threat detection, will be an easy-to-understand metric that will facilitate board-level risk assessment, third-party vendor management, and cyber breach insurance underwriting. Along with a score, the product will provide current threat profile characteristics and granular insights into potential security issues.
FICO Falcon Cybersecurity Analytics are based on the patented behavioural analytics that have made the FICO Falcon Fraud Platform the world leader in payment card protection. With this acquisition and the infusion of FICO’s analytic scoring methods, FICO will provide both cybersecurity defences and an enterprise-level “cyber score” that gives an empirical, impartial measure of a company’s security.
The new product will leverage both quantitative and qualitative insights to assess and understand the risk of an organisation’s network assets. It will also help organisations manage similar risks associated with third parties, and enable breach insurance brokers and underwriters to better and more consistently assess enterprise risk.
“We believe cybersecurity can only be substantially and sustainably improved through creating a strong ecosystem, and a vital part of that ecosystem is a common rating that all parties can use to evaluate cyber risk,” said Doug Clare, VP of cybersecurity solutions at FICO. “We’re excited to have the QuadMetrics team – and their deep expertise – joining us in our efforts to fight cybercrime and help all organisations improve their visibility and insights into cyber risk. Just as the FICO Score gave credit markets a single metric for understanding credit risk, this product will give the industry a common view of enterprise cybersecurity risk.”
“While all organisations are leveraging both sophisticated software and expert guidance to protect themselves from cyber attacks, it is increasingly important that other dependent parties have a common means of assessing the effectiveness of those efforts,” said Wes Huffstutter, CEO of QuadMetrics. “Clients, partners, underwriters and regulators have a stake in understanding an organisation's level of cyber risk. FICO’s Enterprise Security Scores will provide the transparency, consistency and confidence required to strengthen the entire security ecosystem.”
In acquiring QuadMetrics, FICO becomes the exclusive licensee of QuadMetrics’ intellectual property and pending patents, and gains access to development data for additional analytics research. FICO will enhance the solution with its catalogue of proprietary analytics methods and its experience in developing, marketing and distributing broad-based scores for managing different classes of risks across industries. A FICO-branded and enhanced version of the QuadMetrics offering will be launched later this summer (roughly Q2 to Q3).
In related news, FICO announced in April that it had partnered with iboss Cybersecurity to embed its artificial intelligence-based cyber analytics as part of the iboss node-based, direct-to-cloud, containerised platform.
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