To protect confidentiality and to respect responsible disclosure considerations, Bitsight’s terms of service prohibit rated entities from publicly sharing ratings, except that an organization can share its own rating (for marketing or any other purpose). However, one of our clients, which had the highest rating in its peer group, and one of the highest in its industry, wanted to use this fact to aid in its sales effort and share competitor ratings. After review, we decided that sharing comparisons to industry averages would not jeopardize confidentiality, so we decided to amend the terms of service to allow this. Furthermore, on a case-by-case basis, we may allow sharing of comparisons against a company’s peer group (if the group is sufficiently large to preserve anonymity of the companies within it).