Turning cybersecurity from a color-coded chart into a number the boardroom can actually manage.
Ask a security team how safe a company is, and you usually get a chart: red, yellow, green. Ask the CFO to make a budget decision from that chart, and the conversation stalls. CyberSaint, a cybersecurity software company founded in Boston in 2016, was built around a more uncomfortable question - how many dollars of risk are we actually carrying, and which fix reduces it the most?
The answer lives in its flagship product, the CyberStrong platform. It consolidates security and compliance data, automatically scores an organization's controls against frameworks like the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and translates the result into financial terms using models such as FAIR and NIST 800-30. The pitch is not a prettier dashboard. It is a common language between the people who run security and the people who sign the checks.
CyberSaint was founded by George Wrenn, Padraic O'Reilly, and Scott Schlimmer. O'Reilly, who remains as Chief Innovation Officer, has become a recognizable voice on cyber risk quantification. Jerry Layden, who joined as chief revenue officer in 2018, stepped into the CEO seat in 2021 and has steered the company's commercial growth since.
The company describes CyberStrong as the platform for the convergence of security operations, continuous compliance, and risk management - moving customers, in its own words, "from assessment to boardroom." In March 2024 it raised a $21M Series A led by Riverside Acceleration Capital to push that model into more markets.
Automated framework assessment and control scoring across NIST, CIS, ISO and more - with framework harmonization so a single answer maps to every standard, replacing the annual spreadsheet with continuous control monitoring.
Cyber risk expressed in financial terms using the FAIR model and NIST 800-30, plus benchmarking and scenario simulation so leaders can weigh exposure and return on security investment (ROSI).
Risk heat maps, executive dashboards, and board-ready reports that turn thousands of technical findings into a strategic narrative decision-makers can act on in minutes.
"CyberStrong enables enterprises to master their cyber risk posture and drive executive alignment by translating cyber risk into financial terms."
Most enterprises run a dozen overlapping frameworks and answer the same control question many times over. Assessments are done by hand, once a year, and are stale the day they ship. And when the findings pile up - tens of thousands of them - the hardest part isn't spotting problems, it's deciding what to fix first with a single budget.
CyberSaint's differentiation is to attack all three at once. It harmonizes frameworks so you answer once. It monitors controls continuously instead of annually. And it uses patented AI - built on a graph neural net engine - to rank findings by the risk-in-dollars they actually remove. Competitors such as RiskLens, SAFE Security, Balbix, Kovrr, and LogicGate each touch parts of this; CyberSaint's bet is the convergence of compliance, operations, and quantification on one platform.
CyberSaint sells CyberStrong as B2B SaaS - annual subscriptions tiered by hubs, users, and frameworks. Its customers span energy, insurance, healthcare, travel, and financial services, and include named brands such as Duke Energy, Allstate, TripAdvisor, MDU Resources, Expeditors, and Midmark. The company says Fortune 50 titans and high-growth startups alike rely on the platform, and that customers have collectively managed tens of trillions of dollars in cyber risk through it.
The through-line across those industries is regulatory pressure and board scrutiny. As AI-driven attacks and resilience-focused regulation mount, static, manual assessments no longer satisfy auditors or directors. That macro shift - not a feature war - is the tide CyberSaint is trying to ride, and the reason its 2024 raise leaned so heavily on the word "expansion."
George Wrenn, Padraic O'Reilly, and Scott Schlimmer launch CyberSaint to modernize cyber risk management around the NIST framework.
Layden comes aboard to lead revenue as CyberStrong gains enterprise traction.
CyberSaint collects multiple industry awards; Jerry Layden is appointed Chief Executive Officer in September.
CyberStrong is organized into Compliance, Risk, and Executive hubs with continuous control monitoring.
Riverside Acceleration Capital leads a Series A - with Sage Hill, Audeo Capital, and BlueIO - to fund global expansion and further AI work.
It builds CyberStrong, a SaaS platform that helps enterprises assess compliance, quantify cyber risk in financial terms, and report it to executives and boards - converging compliance, security operations, and risk management.
It was founded in 2016 by George Wrenn, Padraic O'Reilly, and Scott Schlimmer. Jerry Layden has served as CEO since 2021; O'Reilly remains as Chief Innovation Officer.
CyberSaint raised a $21M Series A in March 2024 led by Riverside Acceleration Capital, with reported total funding in the range of roughly $29-36M.
Fortune 500 enterprises and high-growth companies across energy, insurance, healthcare, and travel, including Duke Energy, Allstate, and TripAdvisor.
It converges compliance, security operations, and risk quantification on one platform, using patented AI and the FAIR model to express cyber risk in dollars and monitor controls continuously rather than through annual assessments.