Cyber risk. Simplified.

Ostrich Cyber-Risk combines qualitative risk analysis and quantitative scenario simulation to deliver a more comprehensive cyber risk management solution.

Birdseye™
business benefits

Cyber risk management made easy for program management.

Rather than a static snapshot of your current cyber risk posture, Birdseye™ provides an intuitive assessment workflow to track your organization’s risk over time with a qualitative assessment that translates into a quantitative analysis and gives you reporting results in one easy-to-navigate application.

  • Online intuitive assessment workflow with multiple choice format for results in just hours

  • One application to complete qualitative assessments and quantitative analysis in house without spreadsheets or 3rd parties

  • Run assessments easily in house anytime with web-based application

  • Group and division assessment results for real-time comparison

  • Comprehensive-yet-accessible and easy-to-understand reporting to share with stakeholders and third parties—like insurers.

  • Cyber loss event data from Advisen to compare your cyber risk program to others in your industry

Identify and rank risk by financial impact from a single screen

Ostrich Cyber-Risk helps organizations reduce the complexity of identifying, quantifying and communicating financial and operational risks related to your cybersecurity posture.

Birdseye makes it faster and simpler to identify and reduce your financial and operational risks using a qualitative assessment and quantitative analysis intuitive workflow in one easy-to-understand dashboard.

Get a better perspective from every angle

Birdseye delivers qualitative and quantitative solutions to provide a more complete and actionable analysis of your cyber risk.

  • Birdseye Level 1 is a NIST CSF-based self-run assessment that identifies a short list of security initiatives targeted for improvement.

    • Identify risk using standards-based assessment benchmarks (NIST, ISO, CIS, COBIT, ISA)

    • Track risk over time with an intuitive workflow

    • Deploy prioritized assessments to quantify risk

  • Birdseye Level 2 is a security scenario simulation that is used to rank initiatives by quantifying risk reduction.

    • Simulate unlimited risk scenarios from your assessments using Advisen industry event loss data

    • Identify financial & operational risk

    • Measure cybersecurity program ROI

According to Gartner, Security and Risk-Management (SRM) leaders are turning to cyber-risk quantification (CRQ) to communicate risk, aid enterprise decision making, and prioritize cybersecurity risks with greater precision.

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Develop a cycle of continuous improvement

  • Assess

    • Perform NIST CSF, 800-53, ISO 27001, CIS 18, COBIT assessments.

    • Customize assessments by assigning desired targets.

    • Compare and score assessment responses for gap analysis results.

  • Simulate

    • Simulate threat scenarios to quantify financial and operational risk.

    • Compare to Advisen historic loss claim data to further address risk.

    • Measure the acceptability of each outcome for the highest ROI solution.

  • Prioritize

    • Implement new security controls or strengthen existing ones.

    • Determine effectiveness of controls from periodic assessment results.

    • Prioritize decisions to reduce risk in a continuous improvement cycle.

  • Improve

    • Track the progress of your cybersecurity efforts.

    • Improve by weighing progress against previous assessments and self-defined roadmap targets.

    • Verify the effect of implemented security controls in the next assessment.

  • Communicate

    • Communicate cyber risk exposure to stakeholders, executives and board members.

    • Demonstrate how the program improvements reduce cyber risk.

    • Share cyber risk initiatives with insurers and other third parties.

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Good strategy is built on better insight.

Download the Ostrich Cyber-Risk whitepaper today to learn four ways to craft a stronger and more proactive risk-mitigation plan.

 

Most boards find these questions challenging.
We can help you answer.

What are the significant cyber risks?

Is our cyber risk posture aligned to our real-world risk?

How do we reduce business risk?

How do we compare to peers?

Is our cyber security budget sufficient to mitigate our risk?

Are we overspending on cyber insurance?

Can you recognize a good security posture?

It may seem counterintuitive, but many business leaders have a difficult time identifying “good” security—especially within their own organization.

Problem 1: You’re too close, but far from informed

It’s often hard to spot security gaps from within your organization, even when the potential risks are easily recognizable from an external perspective. But more often, this failure to recognize risk comes from a lack of accurate, actionable, and intelligible information: If your SecOps lead tells you you’re good to go, why question it?

Problem 2: If you can’t assess your risk, you can’t evaluate your methods—or justify investments

Simply knowing that an undefined risk probably exists isn’t generally going to motivate your CFO to increase security investment. If you aren’t able to put actual, real-world numbers against potential scenarios, there’s no way to evaluate what you’re currently doing, much less prevent future problems.

Problem 3: Risk is increasing, but you may not realize how much it increased for you

Both the number of attacks and the financial impact of breaches continue to rise at an exponential rate. Without a consistent way to measure your risk over time, your organization is forced to essentially play catch-up—which gives attackers an edge.

“The average cost of a data breach rose from $3.86 million in 2020 to $4.24 million in 2021.”
— IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report, 2021

Solution: Better security starts with better information

Ostrich Birdseye was developed to give you a smarter, simpler and more consistent way to measure your risk over time, identify key threats and their potential financial impact, and communicate the data to key stakeholders. It’s specifically designed to build a bridge of understanding between executives and security leaders and give you the tools and data you need to confidently develop a stronger security posture.

 

Looking for a smart listen?

Check out Brilliance Security Magazines’s podcast, “Understanding and Communicating Cyber Risk”, featuring our Co-Founder & CRO, Greg Spicer.

 

Assess your unique risk profile.

Develop a more confident, capable and reliable security posture with Ostrich Cyber-Risk.

 

The new methodology for
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