In a recent study, BitSight found a large gap in the security posture between financial organizations and their third parties.3 This BitSight Insights report explores a similar question: what is the cybersecurity performance of U.S. federal contractors, and how does that compare to the performance of U.S. federal agencies?
To perform this assessment, BitSight researchers took a random sample of over 1,200 U.S. federal government contractors across the following industries: Aerospace/Defense, Business Services, Healthcare/Wellness, Engineering, Technology, and Manufacturing. The cybersecurity performance of these contractors was compared with the performance of over 120 U.S. federal agencies.
