cyber-risk-quantification
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Black Kite
Black Kite is a Boston-based cybersecurity company that rates and monitors the cyber risk posed by an organization's third-party vendors and supply chain. Built from a hacker's perspective, its platform combines non-intrusive external assessments, ransomware-likelihood scoring, standards-based compliance mapping, and Open FAIR financial-impact modeling so risk teams can see, quantify, and act on the exposure hiding inside their vendor ecosystem.
CyberSaint
CyberSaint is a Boston-based cybersecurity software company whose CyberStrong platform helps enterprises assess, quantify, and communicate cyber risk. It converges compliance, security operations, and risk management, using AI to automate control scoring, translate cyber risk into financial terms, and produce board-ready reporting for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth organizations.
DeNexus
DeNexus is a Boston-based cyber risk company that quantifies the financial impact of cyber threats to industrial and operational technology (OT) environments. Its DeRISK platform uses AI, machine learning and simulation to predict where breaches are likely in OT/ICS networks, express that risk in dollar terms, and prioritize mitigation by ROI. The company serves CISOs, boards, risk managers and cyber insurers across data centers, energy, manufacturing and transportation, and has expanded into agentic-AI underwriting automation for the industrial cyber insurance market.
Jerry Layden
Jerry Layden is the CEO of CyberSaint, a Boston-based cybersecurity software company that helps organizations measure, quantify, and report cyber risk in financial terms. He stepped into the top job in September 2021 after leading revenue as CRO, and before that spent 18 years at Dell EMC, most recently as Vice President of Global Accounts. Layden runs CyberSaint's CyberStrong platform, which uses AI and actuarial data to automate compliance work and translate cyber risk into language boards and executives understand.
Jose Seara
Jose Seara is the founder and CEO of DeNexus, a Boston-based company that quantifies cyber risk for operational technology and industrial control systems. A naval and marine engineer by training, he spent nearly two decades building critical infrastructure and renewable energy companies across Europe and North America before pivoting to cybersecurity. He started DeNexus after discovering, as an energy operator, that he could not measure his own company's cyber risk or insure against it. His DeRISK platform turns technical threat data into financial metrics that boards and insurers can act on.
Maxxsure
Maxxsure is a Dallas-area cybersecurity company that turns cyber risk into a number executives can actually use. Its flagship product, the M-Score, quantifies an organization's cyber risk on a 0-to-1000 scale by collecting thousands of internal, external, and third-party variables and running them through AI and machine-learning models. Rather than handing boards another vulnerability report, Maxxsure frames risk in financial terms - 'down to the dollar' - so leadership can decide what to remediate, what to accept, and how much cyber insurance they actually need.
RiskOpsAI
RiskOpsAI (formerly OptimEyes AI) is an AI/ML-driven integrated risk modeling and decisioning platform that helps Fortune 2000 and Global 500 organizations discover, measure, prioritize, predict and optimize cyber risk, data privacy, third-party threat exposure and regulatory compliance. Its patented, AI-native risk quantification aggregates data from multiple risk sources into a single source of truth, giving CXOs a near real-time, transparent view of enterprise-wide risk and the actions to remediate it.
Rahul Tyagi
Rahul Tyagi is Co-Founder of Safe Security (formerly Lucideus), the Palo Alto-based Autonomous Cyber Risk Management platform that processes over three billion signals daily. A Certified Ethical Hacker who graduated from Lovely Professional University in 2011, he co-founded the company at IIT Bombay in 2012 alongside Saket Modi and Vidit Baxi. He has spent over a decade pioneering cyber risk quantification - using FAIR model frameworks and MITRE ATT&CK integration to give Fortune 500 boards a dollar figure on their digital exposure. Featured in Fortune India's 40-under-40, he discovered vulnerabilities in Intel, Sony, HP, TED, and dozens more before pivoting from pen-testing to platform. His most recent chapter: leading Safe Security's CyberAGI vision after closing a $70M Series C in July 2025.
Saket Modi
Saket Modi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Safe Security (formerly Lucideus), the AI-native cyber risk management platform he started building in his final year of engineering in 2012. Based in Palo Alto, he has grown Safe Security from a bootstrapped IIT Bombay-incubated startup into a 1,300-person company with over $200M in funding — backed by Cisco's legendary John Chambers — protecting the digital infrastructure of Fortune 500 companies worldwide. His audacious goal: build CyberAGI, the definitive autonomous system of intelligence and action for the modern CISO.
Safe Security
Safe Security is a Palo Alto-based cybersecurity company building an Agentic AI-native platform for cyber risk quantification (CRQ), third-party risk management (TPRM) and continuous threat exposure management (CTEM). Founded in 2012 in India as Lucideus, it now translates security posture into dollars-and-cents risk for enterprises like Google, Chevron, T-Mobile, Fidelity and IHG, and is pursuing what its founders call 'CyberAGI'.