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Risk Quantifier (RQ)

Quantify cyber risk in financial terms to make better decisions, prioritize actions and communicate with leadership

ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier for cyber risk quantification

ThreatConnect Risk Quantifier (RQ) makes it fast and easy to analyze and quantify the financial impact of cyber risks, and prioritize remediations. RQ provides the data, AI-powered analytics and recommendations to deliver defensible results without needing to be a cyber risk expert.

Key Capabilities of Risk Quantifier

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Data > Feelings
You need defensible, actionable risk intelligence. RQ delivers by analyzing real-world risk, loss, and attack data and specific attributes and context of your business
AI & Machine Learning risk management strategy
Insights and Context – Powered by AI/ML
Using AI and machine learning, RQ automates cyber risk analysis, allowing you to rapidly overlay your business context with our models, obtaining the most accurate insights possible.
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Prioritize Risk Remediation for Maximum Impact
Choosing which controls and vulnerabilities to tackle first can be challenging. RQ provides financial, impact-based recommendations so you’ll mitigate the greatest risks to your business.
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Communicate Impact, Enable Good Decisions
Financially quantifying cyber risks enables you to talk to executives and directors in terms they understand – money and costs – and gain strong alignment when making decisions.
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Start Quickly, Grow As You Need
RQ meets you where you are in your cyber risk quantification journey, whether using custom models or FAIR.
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Overcome the Skeptics with Defensible Data
RQ makes your cyber risk analyses and decisions transparent and defensible to skeptics who might not believe or understand the validity of your approach.

Covering Your Most Critical Use Cases

  • Risk and Control Mitigation Prioritization
  • Defining SEC Materiality / Risk Appetite
  • Improving cyber risk communication
  • Vulnerability Prioritization
  • Third Party & Supply Chain Risks
  • Compliance with regulations and frameworks
  • Managing End-of-Life assets
  • Risk Exception and Gap Management
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Focus on what matters to you

Quantify cyber risks with speed and ease

Use an open, data-driven approach, rather than subjective inputs to models, to quantify cyber risk.

Cyber risk analyses are time-consuming and are blockers for business-critical activities and initiatives

RQ automates risk analyses with its built-in data and analytics.

Solved With:
  • View risk exposure along multiple financial loss types
  • Analyze various values along a loss distribution to ensure you have the correct coverage
  • Semi-Automated FAIR analysis makes using FAIR easier than any other approach

My risk analysis is subject and sometimes difficult to defend.

Achieving defensible risk analyses is a critical benefit from using RQ.

Solved With:
  • AI/ML models use industry loss and attack data in calculations
  • Controls and vulnerabilities feed the model, which aligns with business impact
  • Simple, easy-to-use outputs that are exportable via API, CSV or PPT 

Insurance providers require me to gather a lot of data, and ensure it’s accurate, and I don’t know how to affects my premium.

Provides rich financial and technical loss for determining coverage amounts and likelihood analysis.

Solved With:
  • Values at multiple points along the loss distribution curve
  • Controls and vulnerabilities show how likely a breach is, which should figure into my premium 
  • See both the magnitude and categories of loss with data-driven upper and lower bounds

I don’t know if I have the appropriate level of cyber insurance coverage.

Risk Quantifier gives you the financial impacts from threats in hard currency, allowing you to know how much financial cyber risk the organization needs to cover.

Solved With:
  • Values at multiple loss events
  • Controls and vulnerabilities show how likely a breach is, which should figure into my insurance premium
  • See both the magnitude and categories of loss with data-driven upper and lower 

Learn how a ThreatConnect RQ made risk analyses easier, faster, and more robust.

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Evolved cyber risk management

Leverage data and AI-powered cyber risk quantification

I have finite resources and there is a continual backlog of risk analyses for my team of risk professionals to produce.

RQ fully automates cyber risk quantification, letting your risk managers stay ahead.

Solved With:
  • Outputs prioritized by financial risk reduction
  • Leverage your attack surface to obtain accurate results
  • Vulnerabilities prioritized by financial risk to reduce patching backlog

Business leaders don’t understand the value of investing in cyber security.

Putting financial numbers, like dollars, on cyber risks enables direct comparisons between cyber security and other business investments and their ROIs.

Solved With:
  • ROI calculations show the risk reduction of an investment
  • Play “what if” with various options to see the highest financial risk reduction 
  • Analyze both the magnitude and likelihood of an attack and how controls can affect your risk posture

Current cyber risk analyses are too qualitative and not defensible.

RQ quantifies your risks in financial terms, not ordinal terms like 1-5 or high, medium, and low, making them relevant and defensible.

Solved With:
  • AI/ML models for risk scenarios use industry loss and attack data in calculations
  • Controls and vulnerabilities feed the model, which aligns with my business
  • Open and easily tunable models provide defensibility and flexibility to meet changing needs in my risk assessments

Helping the CISO prioritize risk mitigation strategies often comes down to “gut feel.”

RQ provides automated tactical and strategic risk mitigation recommendations based on financial impact, making risk mitigation strategies more accurate and defensible.

Solved With:
  • Control recommendations take in your input and our threat intelligence to provide data-driven, actionable results in financial terms
  • Vulnerabilities ingested from your environment are prioritized based on financial risk reduction
  • “What If” scenarios let you model a change to the baseline before you have to commit time and/or resources

ThreatConnect RQ – The Industry-leading CRQ Solution

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Make smart cybersecurity investment decisions

Prioritize risk mitigation investments based on defensible financial impact, not gut feelings

Prioritizing where to strategically invest in cybersecurity is frustrating.

Get a comprehensive view of the financial risks from cyber threats across your entire enterprise to make accurate and decisive decisions.

Solved With:
  • Quantified financial impacts of cyber risks make the most of my cybersecurity budget
  • Get both short-term and strategic recommendations to focus security investments and projects 
  • A single-pane-of-glass view of the cyber risk landscape across your organization

Communicating cyber risk with executives is a struggle – they aren’t technical and I can’t speak in business terms.

RQ enables you to quantify cyber risks in financial terms, enabling you to achieve productive communications with leaders.

Solved With:
  • Quantified financial impacts of cyber risks
  • A single-pane-of-glass view of the cyber risk landscape across your organization
  • Easily see specifics from lines of business down to individual assets

If there were a cyber attack, I’d struggle to answer questions about materiality for the SEC Cybersecurity rules.

Quantifying the organization’s cyber risk in financial impacts allows you, executives, and the board of directors to assess and agree on materiality before an incident occurs.

Solved With:
  • Peer analytics shows other losses and what was “material”
  • AI/ML-driven models use industry data to calculate loss scenarios
  • Open and customizable models allow for defensibility and flexibility in determining materiality 

The business views cyber security as a cost center, not a strategic partner.

With RQ, you can communicate with executives and Directors about aligning cyber risk to company growth and demonstrating value for the cyber risk and security program.

Solved With:
  • Show the cost of not meeting security baselines in financial terms
  • Calculate the financial impact of third-party vendors before bringing them on
  • Quantify the value security brings to the business by tracking risk reductions over time

I’m always being asked to “accept a waiver” to my security policies and guidelines to meet business needs when I shouldn’t own the risk.

RQ helps remove the uncertainty and emotions when discussing how much risk to accept by quantifying the financial impact of cyber risks.

Solved With:
  • “What if” scenarios let you show the cost of meeting the waiver before approving it
  • Customizable scenarios let you add financial risks based on your specific policies 

Learn how to operationalize cyber risk quantification.

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The business doesn’t understand the value of the service we provide to the company.

RQ quantifies cyber risks and allows security operations teams to demonstrate in financial terms how much cyber risk they are removing.

Solved With:
  • Show the cost of not meeting security baselines in financial terms 
  • Calculate the financial impact of third party vendors before bringing them on
  • Quantify the value security brings to the business by tracking risk reductions over time

Prioritizing where to focus exposure mitigation activities is a struggle without knowing which assets and business processes carry the most risk.

RQ’s automated assessment and recommendations give vulnerability management teams clear direction on the riskiest exposures to the business’ environment.

Solved With:
  • CVE to financial impact
  • Financial recommendations of controls
  • Tie assets to business applications and processes to link technical risk to business loss

When attacks happen, it’s hard to know which are the most critical to respond to.

RQ enables security operations teams to know which assets and business processes are vitally critical to the organization.

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  • Link technical assets to business assets 
  • Measure the risk to “Crown Jewel” applications
  • Integrate with a GRC or other tool to automatically ingest and analyze risks

Aligning my departments’ strategy to the cyber risk strategy takes a lot of time and still leaves a lot of uncertainty.

The quantified risk outputs from RQ speed up the alignment of tactical and strategic investments.

Solved With:
  • Quantified financial impacts of cyber risks
  • Control recommendations take in your input and our threat intelligence to provide data-driven, actionable results in financial terms
  • Show the cost of not meeting security baselines in financial terms

 

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Guide to CRQ

I have thousands of vendors, and the ratings I get are too technical, making it hard to determine which to focus on to avoid material losses.

Leverage the power of RQ and security ratings solutions, like SecurityScorecard, to avoid analysis paralysis and focus on the vendors that matter.

Solved With:
  • Native integrations with SecurityScorecard
  • Native integrations with ServiceNow

The business expects me to accept the risks with a new third-party vendor “to meet the needs of the business.”

The quantifiable outputs provided by RQ allow third-party risk acceptance to be shifted to business and application owners.

Solved With:
  • Native integrations with SecurityScorecard
  • Native integrations with GRC tools like ServiceNow, Archer, and more.
  • Quantify third-party vendors in financial terms

I’m unable to answer the question of how much 3rd parties and our digital supply chain are contributing to the organization’s overall cyber risk.

RQ provides a holistic view of cyber risks across your organization.

Solved With:
  • Financially analyze third-party vendors
  • Dedicated Third Party Dashboards
  • Ingest security library information for use in calculations

Learn why CRQ is important to 3rd-party risk management.

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We Power CRQ In Leading Solutions

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SecurityScorecard

The combination of ThreatConnect RQ and SecurityScorecard enables
organizations to quickly and easily quantify the financial risk exposure associated with their suppliers and 3rd parties, the enterprises’ “vendor ecosystem.”

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ServiceNow

Quantifying cyber risk is a critical component of effective governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) and integrated risk management (IRM) activities. Get RQ’s data-driven, AI-powered financial cyber risk quantification directly in ServiceNow GRC.

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RQ Integrates with Your Security Stack

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Choosing a CRQ solution

Understand how to choose the right platform for your cyber risk management strategy to strengthen your cybersecurity programs.

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ThreatConnect RQ – The Industry Leading CRQ Solution

Learn why ThreatConnect RQ is an industry leader in Cyber Risk Quantification according to Forrester.

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