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Measure carries four categories and twenty-two subcategories, and they divide cleanly by what kind of evidence satisfies them. Some ask whether something was observed. Others ask whether something was tested. Monitoring answers the first group and contributes almost nothing to the second.
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By Kovrr
Quantification integrated with a governance platform and quantification sitting beside one behave nothing alike after the first quarter. The integrated figure moves when control status moves. The standalone figure describes the date somebody last updated it. Two directions of data traffic make the difference, and most implementations build only the first one.
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Microsoft states the position plainly. Copilot only surfaces organizational data to which individual users have at least view permissions, so it grants nobody access to anything they could not already open. What changes is that material somebody had permission to reach and never would have found now arrives in a summary. The governance work is therefore permissions work that predates the deployment.
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By Kovrr
Conventional vendor risk tooling asks whether a supplier will suffer a breach. For an AI provider that question is necessary and incomplete, because the larger exposure is what the provider does with your material while operating exactly as intended. Retention periods, training use, inference location and the model serving an endpoint are data governance questions rather than security ones. Most platforms in this market have no field for them, which is the first thing to check.
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By Kovrr
Buying a cyber risk quantification platform means asking a vendor to defend numbers that will end up in front of a board, an auditor, or a regulator. Most evaluation calls never press that hard. The questions below are the ones that separate platforms from each other, and they are written so that any vendor can answer them, including vendors who would beat Kovrr on several of the answers.
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By Kovrr
Most governance platform comparisons written for financial services lead with the EU AI Act high-risk regime. For a bank deploying credit scoring today, that is the obligation furthest from biting, and the ones already in force get less attention than they deserve. The criteria below follow the provisions rather than the subject areas, with dates attached, because the sequence they arrive in decides what a platform has to do first.
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By Kovrr
The two registers hold different objects, run on different clocks and answer to different people. Where they are treated as one list at different levels of detail, items get counted twice and others fall between them. A vulnerability register holds findings on assets and numbers in the thousands. A cyber risk register holds loss scenarios and numbers in the tens. Neither is a summary of the other.
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By Kovrr
Seven fields carry an agent registry, and they split into two kinds. Some a person has to state, because the answer exists only in somebody's intention. The rest can be read from systems that already hold them. Which kind each field belongs to decides whether the registry drifts. Typing an observable value creates a record that was accurate on the day somebody typed it, and recording a declared value is the only way to capture it at all.
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By Kovrr
Run both approaches against one company and the figures differ, which is expected. The useful part is that they differ in a predictable direction, which makes the distance between them informative rather than embarrassing. Bottom-up tends to come in lower and top-down higher, for reasons that follow from how each is built. Knowing which way each one leans is more useful than choosing between them.
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By Kovrr
Most register comparisons rank products on fields, workflow and integrations. A more useful test is which decisions the register can settle, because a register that cannot settle a decision is a record of one made elsewhere. Five decisions get asked of a register. Which risk to treat first, how much to spend treating it, whether to accept it, whether to transfer it, and whether the treatment worked.
AI is merging into the modern workplace at roughly the pace computers did in the 1980s, and the risks are evolving just as fast. IBM and Ponemon found that 97% of organizations hit by an AI-related security incident lacked basic access controls, and 63% had no AI governance policy at all. In this video, Yakir breaks down the seven categories of AI risk every GRC leader needs to understand, and what separates knowing you have a control gap from knowing what it will cost you.
Ransomware has shut down hospitals and data breaches have exposed millions of patient records. But healthcare organizations still struggle to manage cyber risk, because decisions get made on compliance checklists and generic threat scores that reveal nothing about real business impact. In this video, Kovrr breaks down how cyber risk quantification turns healthcare threats into financial terms, and why that changes the conversation between CISOs, compliance leads, and the board.
AI adoption inside the enterprise has outpaced the governance built to contain it — 57% of employees have used AI tools for work without telling their manager. Policies get written and committees get formed, but exposure keeps accumulating, because data governance, AI oversight, and security are almost always run as three separate programs. In this video, Kovrr breaks down the three pillars that need to connect, and what separates a durable AI governance program from a documented one.
By now, most organizations have invested in AI governance. Far fewer have solved the problem that makes governance possible in the first place: knowing what AI they are actually running — and with 57% of employees using AI tools at work without telling their manager, the gap is wider than most inventories admit. In this video, Kovrr breaks down what an AI asset inventory actually is, why traditional asset management never catches shadow AI, and what it takes to keep the record accurate.
For years, security and risk managers have relied on spreadsheets to track their cyber risk. But as regulatory expectations tighten and threats grow more sophisticated, manual tracking cannot keep up. In this video, Kovrr walks through what a modern cyber risk register looks like when cyber risk quantification is built into its foundation. We cover.
For years, CISOs have walked into boardrooms with technical data dumps that don't land. In this video, Kovrr breaks down the 7 cybersecurity metrics that actually resonate with board directors, all framed in the financial and business terms they use to govern the enterprise. We cover: Generated with the help of AI.
live webinar with Aaron Turner, IANS Faculty, who presents findings from his recent IANS research, 7 Steps to Securing Multi-AI Deployments, and explain how security teams can apply proven principles to modern AI systems.
Kovrr’s new AI Risk Governance Suite gives enterprises the visibility, structure, and measurable control needed to manage GenAI responsibly across its full lifecycle. Join us for Office Hours: Part 1, where Or Amir will walk through the first three modules of the suite—showing how enterprises can gain real-time oversight and quantifiable insight into their AI landscape: Discover how these capabilities help enterprises align innovation with accountability—building a defensible foundation for responsible GenAI adoption.
In this session, Or Amir, Product Manager at Kovrr, showcases our new AI Risk Assessment and AI Risk Quantification modules — helping enterprises gain visibility, benchmark maturity, identify shadow AI, and turn exposure into measurable outcomes.
Explore Kovrr’s brand-new CRQ-Powered Cyber Risk Register — a first-of-its-kind solution that’s redefining the way organizations build cyber GRC programs and manage cyber risk. Led by Or Amir, Product Manager at Kovrr, this session will offer a hands-on deep dive into the risk register’s extensive capabilities and show you why moving beyond static, spreadsheet-based registers to a fully quantified, dynamic risk intelligence framework is necessary for achieving resilience in today’s landscape.
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By its nature, cyber risk is dynamic. New events happen and evolve all the time, making it difficult for enterprises to financially quantify their financial exposure to cyber attacks. Around two years ago, for example, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were making headlines, and now ransomware has come into heightened focus. It's reasonable to believe that other types of attacks will emerge in another two years and continue to change thereafter.
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The number of data breaches reported in the first 6 months of 2022 has put this year on track to be the lowest year of reports in the last 5 years for large US corporations. By looking at the rate at which data breach events have been reported so far this year, we predict that the number of events reported is expected to be 15-20% of the number of breaches reported in 2021
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The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), the fifteenth such report in as many years, leads off with a startling statistic: Credentials are the number one overall attack vector hackers use in data breaches. Use of stolen credentials accounts for nearly half the breaches studied by Verizon, far ahead of phishing and exploit vulnerabilities, which account for 19% and 8% of attacks, respectively. Botnets, the fourth most common entry path for hackers, represent a mere 1% of attacks.
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Kovrr financially quantifies cyber risk on demand. Our technology enables decision makers to seamlessly drive actionable cyber risk management decisions.
Kovrr's Quantum Cyber Risk Quantification platform enables decision makers to understand and financially quantify the changing profile of their cyber risk exposure.
Cyber Risk Management Made Easy:
- Communicate Cyber Risk in Financial Terms: Enhance the board and C-Suite’s decision-making process by financially quantifying cyber risk.
- Cybersecurity Investment Optimization: Prioritize and justify cybersecurity investments based on business impacts and risk reduction.
- Measure Cyber Security Programs’ Effectiveness: Assess the ROI of your cybersecurity program and stress test it based on potential risk mitigation actions, thereby supporting better resource allocation.
- 3rd Party Vendors Cyber Risk Exposure Analysis: Financially quantify cyber risk within your supply chain. Gain insights Into 3rd and 4th party exposure.
- Regulatory Compliance and Governance Reporting: Meet increased demands from regulators to continuously quantify and manage cyber risk exposure.
- Cyber Insurance Coverage and Price Optimization: Identify gaps between risk mitigation impact versus risk cyber insurance spending and needed coverage for 1st party and 3rd party.
- Quantitatively Benchmark and Compare your Cyber Risk Exposure: Benchmark to your industry peers and internally compare between different business entities in a consistent, measurable and accurate way.
A cyber risk management platform to quantify custom cyber risk scenarios.