Security and trust ratings promise to give people and companies an easy way to quickly gauge the risk or efficacy of just about anything, from products to people and from services to information. Last week, NortonLifeLock announced a research project that will score whether Twitter accounts are likely to belong to a human or a bot. The creator of such scoring systems needs to focus on ensuring that higher scores actually mean better security, for example, says BitSight’s Stephen Boyer. In some cases, the scoring system may not capture the environment in which workers find themselves.”]

