DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CyberGRX, provider of the most comprehensive third-party cyber risk management platform, today announced that it closed $9M in Series A funding led by Allegis Capital, with participation from Blackstone, TenEleven Ventures, Rally Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), MassMutual Ventures and several other strategic investors. The company will use the funding to deliver the CyberGRX platform to market. The platform is developed in partnership with its early adopters, which include chief security and risk officers from Aetna, Blackstone, MassMutual and several other leading institutions across business sectors.
As enterprises’ dependence on their partner ecosystems grows, so does their exposure to breaches from these key vendors, partners and customers. A recent Ponemon Institute report, “Data Risk in the Third-Party Ecosystem,” found that nearly half (49 percent) of all organizations had recently reported that they experienced a data breach caused by a vendor, and nearly three out of four (73 percent) enterprises expect third-party related incidents to increase. And the damage, both in terms of reputation and actual dollars and shareholder value lost, is real. A recent survey of 170 large enterprises by consulting firm Deloitte found that 28 percent of respondents had faced major business disruption due to third-party data breaches, and more than one in four (26 percent) organizations suffered reputational damage as a result. An astounding 87 percent of the enterprises surveyed admitted to “disruptive incidents” with third parties in the last 2-3 years. It is evident that boards, CEOs, business leaders, and risk and security managers need a better way to manage this exploding third-party cyber risk.
Despite this growing need, substantial inefficiencies continue to exist on both sides in the current approach. Enterprises focus the vast majority of their time collecting data, rather than performing risk management and mitigation processes to reduce the residual security risk third parties represent. At the same time, vendors and partners spend too much time, energy and money completing questionnaires and hosting on-site security assessments.
“CyberGRX is built by security practitioners who bring a risk-based perspective to security control assessment,” said Fred Kneip, CEO of CyberGRX. “CyberGRX helps enterprises not only automate and standardize the collection of information, but also prioritize, evaluate and remediate risk. Instead of incrementally improving what people do today, CyberGRX fundamentally changes the way organizations address cyber risk in an increasingly interdependent world.”
Commercially available in early 2017, CyberGRX provides the most comprehensive third-party cyber risk management platform, addressing existing inefficiencies and creating benefit for both enterprises and for their partners and vendors. Through its innovative design, automation and advanced analytics, the CyberGRX platform enables enterprises to cost-effectively and collaboratively identify, assess, mitigate and monitor an enterprise’s cyber risk exposure across its entire vendor, partner and customer ecosystem.
About CyberGRX
CyberGRX provides the most comprehensive third-party cyber risk management platform to cost-effectively identify, assess, mitigate and monitor an enterprise’s risk exposure across its entire partner ecosystem. Through automation and advanced analytics, the CyberGRX solution enables enterprises to collaboratively mitigate threats presented from their increasing interdependency on vendors, partners and customers. CyberGRX is based in Denver, CO with offices in McLean, VA. For more information, visit www.cybergrx.com or follow @CyberGRX1 on Twitter.
