Armorstack VERITY — Risk Management

Risk the board and CFO can act on — not another heat map.

Most risk registers are red-yellow-green nobody outside security can interpret. Verity Risk uses FAIR-based quantification, structured third-party risk programs, framework maturity assessments, and offensive testing that validates the numbers are real.

Why Risk Registers Fail

Heat Maps Don’t Survive Contact With a Budget Meeting

Traditional risk assessment produces a color-coded matrix: high, medium, low. It feels rigorous, but it answers the wrong question. A board doesn’t need to know that a risk is “high” — it needs to know what that risk could cost, how likely it is in a given year, and whether the proposed control spend is worth it relative to the exposure it removes. Ordinal scales can’t answer that; they can’t even be added together or compared to an insurance premium.

Verity Risk exists to close that gap. Rather than one more subjective heat map, it applies a defensible, standards-based quantification methodology — FAIR — alongside the structured programs that actually reduce exposure: third-party and vendor risk management, framework maturity assessment, penetration testing coordination, red team validation, M&A due diligence, and business continuity planning. Each is available as a standalone engagement or as part of a continuous risk management program run by your fractional Verity leadership.

Verity Risk sits inside the broader Verity strategic advisory practice, and shares its evidence layer with Sentry’s continuous monitoring and Core’s managed infrastructure — so a control implemented once produces risk-reduction evidence, compliance evidence, and monitoring evidence simultaneously.

Eight Services, One Risk Program

What Verity Risk Delivers

Each service below can be engaged independently or bundled into a continuous risk management program. Together they cover quantification, third-party exposure, framework maturity, offensive validation, transaction diligence, and continuity planning.

Cyber Risk Quantification
FAIR Quantification
Open Group-standardized FAIR analysis that translates control gaps into dollar-denominated annualized loss exposure.
FAIR Risk Quantification →
Vendor & Supply Chain
Third-Party Risk Management
Vendor risk tiering, assessment, and continuous monitoring programs so your risk doesn’t stop at your own network edge.
TPRM Program →
Underwriting Advisory
Cyber Insurance Readiness
Advisory that maps your control posture against what underwriters actually verify before binding or renewing coverage.
Insurance Readiness Advisory →
Framework Maturity
NIST CSF Maturity Assessment
Current-vs-target profile assessment across the six CSF 2.0 functions, with a prioritized remediation roadmap.
NIST CSF Maturity →
Offensive Testing, Coordinated
Penetration Testing Advisory
Scoping, vendor coordination, and remediation tracking for penetration testing engagements — the advisory layer around the test.
Pen Test Advisory →
Adversary Emulation
Red Team Engagements
Objective-based, multi-vector engagements testing whether your detection and response — not just your controls — actually work.
Red Team Services →
Transaction Diligence
M&A Cyber & AI Due Diligence
Security and AI-governance posture assessment of acquisition targets, timed to diligence windows and deal deadlines.
M&A Due Diligence →
Continuity Planning
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
BIA-driven BC/DR planning that sets defensible RTOs and RPOs and proves them through tested recovery exercises.
BC/DR Planning →
Continuous, Not Annual

From One-Time Assessment to a Running Risk Program

Any of the eight services above can be engaged as a standalone project. Most organizations that start with a single assessment — a FAIR quantification, a NIST CSF maturity review, a TPRM buildout — find the real value is in re-running it. Verity Risk’s flagship offering, Verity Compass, operates FAIR-based quantification and framework mapping continuously, so risk exposure is a live number the board reviews quarterly rather than a static report that ages the moment it’s delivered.

See the 90-day proof

Which Risk Service Does Your Organization Need First?

Talk to Verity about quantifying, testing, or governing your risk posture — and how it connects into a full 90-day proof of value.