Bitsight Technologies, the standard in Security Ratings, today released a new Bitsight Insights report titled, “Peer to Peer Peril: How BitTorrent File Sharing Impacts Vendor Risk and Security Benchmarking,” which examined BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing activity of over 30,700 companies that Bitsight rated for security performance. Bitsight also announced a new file sharing analysis module for the Bitsight Security Ratings Platform that assesses the risk posed by BitTorrent and other file sharing usage among vendors in a supply chain.
Bitsight’s analysis looked at the percentage of P2P downloads containing malware, the top torrented applications an