Security is the discipline where the loudest numbers most often come from the companies selling the fix.
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The independence component exists for this category specifically. When a figure about breach costs, dwell time, or workforce shortages comes from a vendor whose product addresses that exact problem, the score reflects it. That is not an accusation. It is a disclosure that should already be attached to the number and usually is not.
Threat statistics drift faster than almost anything else. A survey of a few hundred respondents in one region becomes a global percentage. A single quarter becomes a trend. By the time it reaches a board, the sample has vanished and only the number remains.
Each edition takes one such claim, puts the sample and method back on it, and scores what is left.
Only when a claim about one is being used to drive spending. This is not a threat feed. It scores the claims that shape budgets and board conversations.
Because a methodologically sound study published by a company that sells the remedy carries a different weight than the same study from a neutral party, and readers deserve to see that scored rather than assumed.
Yes. The verdict and the score are the summary. The component detail is there if you want to argue with it.
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