Case Study: BearingPoint achieves enhanced attack-surface visibility and faster third-party risk remediation with BitSight

Using BitSight to Assess the Effectiveness of the Firm’s Internal Security Posture and Third-Party Ecosystem

BearingPoint, an independent management and technology consulting firm with more than 13,000 people operating in over 70 countries, faced an expanding digital footprint and increased third‑party attack surface as it grew. After a client recommendation, BearingPoint adopted BitSight solutions—specifically BitSight for Security Performance Management (SPM) and BitSight for Third‑Party Risk Management (TPRM)—to gain continuous external visibility into its cloud and internet assets and vendor ecosystem.

BitSight implemented SPM (including Attack Surface Analytics) and TPRM to discover hundreds of thousands of assets, identify vulnerabilities and deviations from policy, and verify vendors’ true security postures. The deployment delivered immediate transparency across BearingPoint’s vendor portfolio, accelerated third‑party assessments, enabled faster collaborative remediation with suppliers, reduced workload for security teams, and improved compliance visibility (e.g., GDPR), supporting quicker, evidence‑based cyber risk decisions.

BearingPoint

David Perstl

Head of Security