This white paper introduces an enhanced SecurityScorecard security ratings methodology tailored for telecommunications, internet service providers, and cloud providers, arguing that traditional ratings often unfairly penalize these companies because much of their large, complex digital footprint is controlled by customers. It highlights research showing 78% of top telecom companies in the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany experienced a third-party breach in the past 12 months, driving the need for more accurate measurement. The updated approach focuses on scoring only corporate assets through AI-driven network partitioning, introduces industry-specific scoring that accounts for business-critical “risky” services (like open DNS resolvers), and incorporates user-contributed data such as certif

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