Threat Beta: Cybersecurity Breach Likelihood Risk Metrics

Threat Beta is a measure of cybersecurity breach risk. Very high Threat Betas are associated with an over 6x higher likelihood of a breach over six months than a very low Threat Beta. Threat Beta derives from several underlying components that measure the threat surface, weighted vulnerabilities, and attack likelihood, which is also available in this dataset.

Use Cases: 1. For asset managers, use the data to determine which companies in a portfolio have a very high chance of being breach in a cybersecurity attack. Breach risk can inform equity and debt investment decisions because breaches result in losses of 2% to 4% of revenue for most companies. Smaller companies could face bankruptcy from a single attack because a single breach requires significant upfront investments to prevent further breaches. 2. Insurance companies benefit from knowing the cybersecurity risk of their portfolio and potential customers. 3. For companies with large supply chains, use the breach prediction data to prevent supply shortages or IP leakage from key suppliers. 4. Industry consortiums can benefit by giving their members access to a data source that informs their membership of their cyber risk level. 5. Energy companies use this data to ensure a stable supply of power by avoiding hacking-related disruptions.

Metadata • Update Frequency: Annually, quarterly, monthly, and weekly • Data Source(s): Public information sources • Geographic coverage: Global, but with an emphasis on North American and Europe • Time period coverage: Five years • Is historical data “point-in-time”: Yes. It’s monthly for the last 60 months (five years) • Data Set(s) Format(s): CSV • Raw or scraped data: Process data from raw and scrapped data • Key Fields: Threat Beta Rating, % breach probability, Risk bucket (high, low, medium), weighted vulnerability, attack likelihood, and attack surface. • Number of companies/brands covered: 20,000 public and private companies to start. A larger scope is available upon request. • Standard entity identifiers: None, but available upon request.

Key Data Points • Symbol: GOOG • Name: Alphabet Class A • Threat Beta Rating: 2.10 (1.0 is average) • Last updated: November 26, 2021

Data Dictionary: Available upon request. Definitions below: • Threat Beta: Threat Beta (Tb) is a proprietary analytical framework that informs a company’s future breach likelihood. By analyzing such factors as a company’s digital footprint, business relationships (note: using this to mean subsidiaries, etc. that we include in the Tb calc), deployed products and third-party services, coupled with the current state of operational cyber-attacks, Tb allows a company to better forecast breach likelihood down to the IP-level of their organization.

Additional Information: • Data Schema: Available upon request • Data Source: Available upon request • Data Due Diligence Questionnaire: Available upon request • Sample Data Set: Available upon request

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