The Kansas software veteran spent 25 years turning scattered audits, vendor questionnaires and risk registers into one enterprise system. Its next wager is that purpose-built AI can spot the trouble before the quarterly heat map does.
Most companies still manage danger in spreadsheets and departmental silos. Riskonnect built a sprawling enterprise platform to connect the clues - and one commissioned study shows both the appeal and the price of the bet.
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.
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.

On June 29, 2026, ServiceNow and Accenture announced a joint suite of AI-powered services designed to help enterprises migrate off legacy risk platforms and adopt agentic AI for cybersecurity and risk management. The offering pairs Accenture's managed security services with the ServiceNow AI Platform to deliver unified integrated risk management, third-party and operational technology risk management, proactive compliance, and an AI-powered migration path. The announcement responds to a threat landscape where U.S. data breach costs hit a record $10.22 million per incident in 2025 and AI is compressing the vulnerability-to-exploitation window from months to hours.
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.