Benchmark privacy

Forest lets you see how your performance compares to peers in your industry and size band. That comparison is privacy-preserving by design. You see how you stack up against an aggregate, never against an identifiable organization.

How comparison stays private

When Forest shows an industry or cohort comparison, it compares your performance to a peer average, not to any single company's record. The data behind that average stays inside each tenant. You learn where you sit relative to the group, and no one in the group learns anything about you.

This is why a peer comparison shows a delta, a performance difference, rather than a gap. A gap is the distance between your current and target maturity, which is internal to your program. A peer delta simply tells you whether you are ahead of or behind the average. One is a goal you set. The other is a reference point.

What you see and do not see

• You see your position against a peer average for your industry and size.

• You do not see another organization's scores, inputs, or identity.

• They do not see yours.

A peer delta is context, not a target. Being above the average does not mean a compliance-required capability is where it needs to be. Set targets from criticality, not from the crowd.

Benchmark privacy rests on the separation described in Tenant isolation. For how raw data is held and removed, see Data protection.