Transform Cyber Risk Into a Defensible, Data-Driven Program
Leverage the ADAPT™ Cyber Risk Model—powered by the Minerva™ Cyber Risk Management Platform—to assess, diagnose, align, prioritize, and translate cybersecurity posture across any organization or regulatory framework.
The ADAPT™ Cyber Risk Model: A Modern Framework for Cybersecurity Maturity
The ADAPT™ Model provides a structured and sustainable approach to establishing and maturing cybersecurity programs. It helps organizations identify risks, diagnose underlying issues, align resources, prioritize investments, and translate actions into measurable business outcomes. The Minerva™ Cyber Risk Management Platform operationalizes ADAPT™ through the modernization and advancement of long established industry practices including: digitized assessments, control translation, real-time insights, risk identification (acute and systemic), AI-driven risk reduction roadmaps, and real-time reporting aligned to established frameworks, regulations, and sector overlays.
A — Assess
Establish Your Baseline
D — Diagnose
Understand Your Risks
A — Align
Coordinate Your Resources
P — Prioritize
Build Your Roadmap
T — Translate
Enable Your Leadership
ADAPT™ + Minerva™
A New Model Fueling A Next Generation Capability
A New Level of Visibility
Minerva™ enables organizations to conduct comprehensive cybersecurity assessments mapped to industry frameworks and overlays such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS, CMMC, HIPAA, and state/federal requirements. The platform streamlines evidence collection, centralizes documentation, and provides a dynamic risk register that reveals blind spots across people, process, and technology.
Minerva™ Features
- Framework-based assessments (NIST, ISO, CIS, CMMC, etc.)
- Policy, process, and standards establishment and evaluation
- Role-based control assignment and management
- Dynamic risk register
Value (Why It Matters)
- Establishes a defensible cybersecurity baseline supported by objective, standards-aligned evidence.
- Identifies gaps in governance and ensures the organization is aligned to modern security expectations.
- Captures the realities of day-to-day operations, revealing issues invisible to leadership.
- Centralizes risk visibility and eliminates disconnected spreadsheets and outdated risk logs.
A New Level of Understanding
Minerva™ goes beyond surface-level findings to analyze why cybersecurity gaps and risks exist. Through real-time benchmarking, control-level scoring, and automated gap analysis, organizations gain clarity into whether risks arise from operational capabilities, workflow failures, governance weakness, and more.
Minerva™ Features
- Real-time peer and industry benchmarking – Patented
- Automated gap analysis for control weaknesses
- Prioritized risk identification
- Data-driven compliance management
Value (Why It Matters)
- Provides context for executives to understand relative maturity and legal liability (risk).
- Pinpoints the root cause of cybersecurity weakness, reducing wasted remediation efforts and maximizing investment.
- Directs attention to the most critical risks, accelerating time-to-impact (risk reduction).
- Enhances audit readiness and supports regulatory alignment with quantifiable evidence.
A New Level of Performance
Minerva™ aligns stakeholders across the organization by defining risk owners, establishing approval workflows, consolidating evidence into a unified system, and leveraging existing IT workflows. This creates operational consistency, eliminates duplicated effort, and enables sustained cybersecurity governance even as teams evolve.
Minerva™ Features
- Team and resource mapping
- Risk authorizer assignment
- Evidence repository alignment
- Ticketing & workflow integration
Value (Why It Matters)
- Clarifies ownership across security, IT, operations, non-IT functions, and leadership, eliminating ambiguity.
- Creates accountability and governance structures that support defensible decision-making.
- Organizes artifacts for audits, insurance reviews, and regulatory obligations.
- Streamlines remediation and ensures cybersecurity efforts fit naturally into existing operations.
A New Level of Focus
Minerva™’s AI-powered roadmap generator helps organizations prioritize cybersecurity initiatives based on threat landscape, impact, cost, effort, compliance requirements, and projected risk reduction. This ensures that limited resources are invested where they deliver the highest measurable value.
Minerva™ Features
- AI-powered cybersecurity roadmap generator – Patent Pending
- Agile based roadmap prioritization
- Risk reduction resource modeling
- Liability threshold identification -Patented
Value (Why It Matters)
- Accelerates strategic planning and ensures all decisions are consistently justified.
- Helps leadership sequence initiatives by risk reduction, cost, and operational effort.
- Supports accurate budgeting, investment planning, and resource allocation.
- Estimates the risk impact of each cybersecurity investment.
A New Level of Support
Minerva™ converts cybersecurity activity into meaningful communication, reports, dashboards, and continuous improvement metrics for technical and non-technical leadership. This allows organizations to bridge communication gaps and provide a mechanism to ensure that due diligence, regulatory alignment, and measurable maturity progression. Effective communication ensures that resources are properly governed in the implementation of the leaderships accepted risk profile.
Minerva™ Features
- Automated reporting and real-time dashboards (visualization)
- Plain-language translation
- Defined program scope based on organizational requirements
- Operational ownership and accountability
- Continuous improvement and risk tracking
Value (Why It Matters)
- Delivers clear, real-time visibility for all stakeholders.
- Creates a common language leaders can act on.
- Highlights the most important risks with consistent risk identification.
- Ensures ownership clarity across the organization.
- Shows progress over time for aligned planning and investment justification.
ADAPT™ Or Be Left Behind
Minerva offers an affordable, innovative cyber risk management solution, leveraging proprietary technology and decades of experience with major companies like IBM, to empower organizations facing the challenging high costs of cybersecurity and budget pressure. Why do we do it? Because we have changed the game!
The Best Way to Predict the Future Is to Create It—Unlock Your Edge.
Would you check your email just once a year? Of course not. The same logic applies to managing your cyber program.
While the technical elements of monitoring continue to evolve, the governance of the cyber program has been limited to annual assessments. Traditional, labor-intensive approaches have set low expectations due to their high costs and limited accessibility.
Minerva leverages cutting-edge technology to break down these barriers, offering continuous access to your organization’s control posture. Isn’t it time you had the power to measure and manage your security program in real-time?
Discover the Minerva difference today.
While the technical elements of monitoring continue to evolve, the governance of the cyber program has been limited to annual assessments. Traditional, labor-intensive approaches have set low expectations due to their high costs and limited accessibility.
Minerva leverages cutting-edge technology to break down these barriers, offering continuous access to your organization’s control posture. Isn’t it time you had the power to measure and manage your security program in real-time?
Discover the Minerva difference today.
Experience the power of digital transformation in cyber governance with tailored cybersecurity frameworks designed to fit your organization’s unique needs. Whether you’re a K-12 institution or a financial organization, the core elements of cyber programs are often similar.
Discover how the Minerva platform streamlines the process of tailoring controls, ensuring your cybersecurity program is both robust and precisely aligned with your specific requirements. Strengthen your foundation with Minerva and confidently protect your digital environment.
Discover how the Minerva platform streamlines the process of tailoring controls, ensuring your cybersecurity program is both robust and precisely aligned with your specific requirements. Strengthen your foundation with Minerva and confidently protect your digital environment.
Organizations utilize custom scoring models in order to lock organizations into their services. By aligning with the CMMC definitions for maturity scoring, we are aligning with common scoring definitions supported by the Department of Defense. When we all utilize a common scoring system it allows organizations to avoid consultative captivity and find the best solutions. Additionally, we are aligning our organization for a stronger legal position in the case of an event.
We hope to be the right operational choice for you and your organization, but more than not, we hope that you find the help you need to secure your digital environment. Leveraging the resources available by federal and state agencies is always a good place to start.
Find out how we are leveraging federal and state agencies to reduce organizational risk.
We hope to be the right operational choice for you and your organization, but more than not, we hope that you find the help you need to secure your digital environment. Leveraging the resources available by federal and state agencies is always a good place to start.
Find out how we are leveraging federal and state agencies to reduce organizational risk.
Not all users are cyber experts, and that’s okay—it’s the diverse skill sets within an organization that drive success. Everyone has a role to play in maintaining security, regardless of their expertise level.
Discover how Minerva leverages AI assistance to bridge the cyber skills gap, empowering all users to contribute effectively to your organization’s security strategy.
Discover how Minerva leverages AI assistance to bridge the cyber skills gap, empowering all users to contribute effectively to your organization’s security strategy.
All to often, the results of an assessment are large material projects that require significant amounts of resources. This can leave IT teams frustrated and paralyzed. This does not have to be your story. Find out how to advance your cyber program with the resources available to you.
The Minerva platform focuses on control level risk, allowing users to identify low cost, low effort, and high impact items first. In turn, this ability to show performance utilizing data then builds confidence with the broader leadership team.
In doing so, we not only improve our security posture, we enable our teams for resource requests.
Find out how to build credibility and unlock resources within your organization with Minerva.
The Minerva platform focuses on control level risk, allowing users to identify low cost, low effort, and high impact items first. In turn, this ability to show performance utilizing data then builds confidence with the broader leadership team.
In doing so, we not only improve our security posture, we enable our teams for resource requests.
Find out how to build credibility and unlock resources within your organization with Minerva.
Most organizations manage a mix of centralized and decentralized controls, leading to significant costs and time when using traditional assessment models. Endless spreadsheets and the burden of governance can create inefficiencies, bias, and errors.
Minerva simplifies this process by allowing organizations to easily customize controls and assign them to the right stakeholders. With Minerva’s weighted aggregation, you eliminate the need for spreadsheets, streamlining governance and enhancing accuracy. This capability is vital for building confidence among leaders and board members with oversight responsibilities—available exclusively through the Minerva platform.
Minerva simplifies this process by allowing organizations to easily customize controls and assign them to the right stakeholders. With Minerva’s weighted aggregation, you eliminate the need for spreadsheets, streamlining governance and enhancing accuracy. This capability is vital for building confidence among leaders and board members with oversight responsibilities—available exclusively through the Minerva platform.
Effective communication is often a significant challenge for cybersecurity programs, and the inability to convey information clearly can erode trust and confidence. This gap is especially pronounced between security leaders and non-technical stakeholders. The Minerva platform addresses this issue by utilizing visualization to clearly communicate risk to non-technical leaders, restoring confidence in your security strategy.
By leveraging visualization and providing data-driven insights, Minerva helps justify security investments and ensures that both technical and non-technical leaders are aligned and engaged in protecting the organization.
By leveraging visualization and providing data-driven insights, Minerva helps justify security investments and ensures that both technical and non-technical leaders are aligned and engaged in protecting the organization.
The Minerva platform was recognized by Gartner Inc. for its excellence in performance management within the risk management category—a testament to our unique and innovative approach. Utilizing patent-pending technology, Minerva not only pinpoints areas of weakness but also identifies potential overspending. This dual insight enables meaningful discussions about resource allocation within your security program.
Our unique approach to governance and risk management drives outcome-focused security programs and provides a level of transparency rarely found in the industry. By optimizing your security efforts, Minerva ensures that your organization can allocate resources effectively, keeping the focus on your core mission.
Our unique approach to governance and risk management drives outcome-focused security programs and provides a level of transparency rarely found in the industry. By optimizing your security efforts, Minerva ensures that your organization can allocate resources effectively, keeping the focus on your core mission.
Gone are the days of relying solely on emotional appeals to persuade your leadership about potential solutions. The Minerva platform leverages a data-driven approach to identify control risks, enabling users to align specific solutions with the appropriate controls. This empowers organizations to evaluate their investments quantitatively, moving beyond the traditional, often whimsical approach of chasing the latest offerings from vendors.
Reclaim control of your environment and chart a clear, data-informed roadmap for your organization with real-time insights!
Reclaim control of your environment and chart a clear, data-informed roadmap for your organization with real-time insights!
Many non-technical leaders may not be well-versed in cybersecurity, often leaving IT leaders to translate complex concepts or, worse, attempt to teach them to their peers. This challenge is compounded by the fact that many cybersecurity leaders come from technical backgrounds and may lack the business acumen needed to communicate effectively with non-technical colleagues.
The Minerva platform addresses this gap by aligning our data with skills known to be common to organizational leaders. The use of common management methods bridges these worlds. Our proprietary use of benchmarking data fosters transparency and understanding, allowing leaders to engage with cybersecurity in ways familiar to them. This approach demystifies the cyber landscape, encourages participation and enhances organizational confidence and resilience.
The Minerva platform addresses this gap by aligning our data with skills known to be common to organizational leaders. The use of common management methods bridges these worlds. Our proprietary use of benchmarking data fosters transparency and understanding, allowing leaders to engage with cybersecurity in ways familiar to them. This approach demystifies the cyber landscape, encourages participation and enhances organizational confidence and resilience.
The cybersecurity skills shortage and traditional labor-based consulting models have left significant parts of our economy underserved. High costs and a lack of skilled resources have forced many organizations to fend for themselves, leaving them vulnerable with few options. Through Minerva, we’ve turned traditional pricing models upside down by leveraging technology to empower organizations.
Our approach offers a cost-effective way to enhance your team’s skills while delivering the insights and capabilities usually provided by expensive professional service contracts.
As a privately owned company, we bring unmatched flexibility and a commitment to earning your business. We challenge the status quo by offering the best technology at an affordable rate because we believe it’s not only possible but the right thing to do!
With years of experience pricing for major security corporations, we’ve developed an ROI calculator to help you explore and compare options. We would be happy to discuss the calculator and be thrilled to provide a demo to show how we’re helping organizations nationwide build their cyber program at an affordable price.
Can your organization afford not to have the Minerva platform?
Our approach offers a cost-effective way to enhance your team’s skills while delivering the insights and capabilities usually provided by expensive professional service contracts.
As a privately owned company, we bring unmatched flexibility and a commitment to earning your business. We challenge the status quo by offering the best technology at an affordable rate because we believe it’s not only possible but the right thing to do!
With years of experience pricing for major security corporations, we’ve developed an ROI calculator to help you explore and compare options. We would be happy to discuss the calculator and be thrilled to provide a demo to show how we’re helping organizations nationwide build their cyber program at an affordable price.
Can your organization afford not to have the Minerva platform?
Why We Built It...
Free Vendor Assessments Fall Short:
- Limited Scope: Offer only a snapshot of a specific area at a single point in time.
- Marketing-Driven: Often designed as a sales tactic rather than to deliver genuine, actionable insights.
- Vendor Bias: Typically skewed to align with the vendor’s own commercial solutions, lacking objectivity.
- More Sales: Frequently serve as a stepping stone to upsell paid services or products.
- Lack of Context: Fail to provide a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s risk landscape.
Challenges with Traditional GRC Tools:
- High Costs: Enterprise-level pricing creates a significant barrier for smaller organizations to adopt these tools.
- Compliance-Centric: Focus primarily on compliance (“Big C”) rather than governance and risk management (“little g, little r”), potentially fostering a false sense of security and exposure.
- Skill-Dependent: Effective use requires a high level of expertise, making it less accessible to those without specialized knowledge.
- Technical Focus: Designed for technical users, necessitating extra effort to translate findings into actionable insights for leadership.
- Complex Integration: Integration with existing systems can be complex and time-consuming, often requiring additional resources and expertise.
- Limited Scope: Overemphasize integration and technical controls, often overlooking the critical human element that drives most organizational risks.
Limitations of Traditional Consultants:
- High Costs: Expensive due to labor-intensive processes and utilization models.
- Not scalable: Unable to scale due to the labor based delivery model.
- Point-in-Time Focus: Deliver only a temporary snapshot, lacking ongoing visibility.
- Proprietary Scales: these models lock clients into utilizing the same vendor for future engagements if they want to measure progress over time.
- Operational Disruption: Often disrupt daily operations due to their event-driven nature.
- Self-Assessment: In the end, they are all self assessments. These just have a required interview.
- Vendor Bias: Tend to align with the consultant’s own solutions, limiting objectivity.
- Sales-Oriented: Frequently positioned to lead to further paid engagements or products.
- Lack of Comprehensive Risk Insight: Fail to provide a holistic view of your organization’s risk profile.
Our Perspective On Unlocking Cyber Performance
Why is visibility the “key” to improving cybersecurity posture?
Visibility is the foundation of cyber maturity because organizations can’t manage, improve, or defend what they can’t see. When leaders and teams share a clear view of risks, controls, evidence, and workflow gaps, they rise together—making better decisions, reducing errors, and driving consistent improvement.
How does understanding risk improve organizational performance?
Understanding risk at its root—why it exists, where it originates, and who it affects—enables focused remediation and targeted investment. This ensures that each dollar is spent maximizing the implementation of your organizations risk profile.
When you know the “why” behind failures, misconfigurations, or process gaps, you eliminate inefficiencies and give teams the clarity they need to act decisively.
What role does alignment play in reducing organizational risk?
Alignment ensures every team works toward the same security objectives by clarifying ownership, roles, and workflows. This unity transforms scattered efforts into targeted execution, enabling the entire organization to operate as a coordinated risk reduction force instead of siloed departments.
How does prioritization create a competitive edge?
Prioritization channels resources toward the highest-impact risks, giving organizations a sharper focus and better results with less effort. Instead of spreading resources thin, prioritization shows exactly where investment produces the strongest risk reduction and operational benefits—unlocking strategic focus.
Why is translating cyber complexity into simple insights essential for leadership?
Leaders make faster, more confident decisions when technical data is translated into clear, actionable insight. Reporting that uses a common language empowers executives, boards, and cross-functional teams to support cybersecurity initiatives and drive organization-wide improvement.
What happens when organizations lack visibility or alignment?
Without clarity and alignment, organizations rely on assumptions—leading to higher risk, slower decisions, and inconsistent performance.Teams operate in silos, investments are misallocated, and leadership struggles to prioritize. The right key eliminates these blind spots and empowers unified action.
How quickly can organizations begin seeing outcomes with Minerva?
Organizations typically gain meaningful visibility and actionable insights within days of using Minerva. Because Minerva enables assessment, consolidates evidence, and visualizes risk immediately, leaders can make better decisions faster—boosting performance based on their level of commitment.