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Threat Scenarios

The threats we stop, made real.

Realistic enterprise cyber scenarios, from ransomware and identity takeover to agentic AI and post quantum risk. Each card is a use case Athena detects, contains and prices, so the board sees the risk before the incident does.

Ransomware and Extortion

Ransomware Propagation

One encrypted host becomes a full operational shutdown

Critical severity
Ransomware and Extortion

If one machine is encrypted tonight, how many more follow before anyone acts?

A single compromised endpoint begins encrypting files and reaching across the network to neighbouring systems, backups and shared drives. What starts as one infected host can spread to entire business units within minutes, freezing operations and forcing a recovery decision under extreme time pressure.

Potential impact
  • Operations halt as production systems and shared data are encrypted
  • Backups are targeted, so restoration becomes slow and uncertain
  • Regulatory and customer notification obligations are triggered
  • Recovery costs and downtime far exceed any ransom demand
What Athena sees

Athena, through Aegis autonomous detection and response, recognises the behavioural fingerprint of propagation early: rapid file modification, mass encryption activity, suspicious lateral connections and credential reuse moving host to host, correlated across the security data lake rather than seen as isolated alerts.

How Athena responds

Aegis isolates affected hosts and severs the lateral pathways the moment the pattern is confirmed, while Vigil runs the containment around the clock and escalates anything irreversible to a human on the loop. Athena orchestrates the response and Citadel hardens the segmentation and backup posture so the next attempt has nowhere to travel.

Business outcome

Spread is contained to the first foothold instead of the whole estate, downtime is measured in a contained incident rather than an enterprise outage, and leadership keeps the option to recover rather than pay.

FunctionsIncident and Case ManagementAsset IntelligenceThreat IntelligenceCyber Risk Quantification
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAegisVigilAthenaCitadel
Identity and Access

Privileged Account Compromise

One administrator credential can rewrite the entire environment

Critical severity
Identity and Access

Could one stolen administrator token quietly unlock everything we protect?

An attacker obtains a privileged or administrator credential and moves with the authority of a trusted operator. Because the account is legitimate, the activity looks routine while it disables controls, creates new access and reaches the most sensitive systems, often going unnoticed until the damage is done.

Potential impact
  • Security controls and logging are disabled from the inside
  • New backdoor accounts and standing access are created
  • Sensitive systems and data are reached under a trusted name
  • Incident scope is hard to bound because the actor looks authorised
What Athena sees

Athena watches identity as a living graph and surfaces the moment privilege behaves out of pattern: impossible travel, a new device or token, privilege drifting upward, a dormant admin waking with intent. Asset Intelligence and Shadow AI Discovery add the context of what that account can actually reach, so the risk is understood, not just observed.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about blast radius and intent rather than firing on a single alert, then steps up authentication, revokes tokens, isolates the session and freezes the account inside the window that matters, with Vigil watching around the clock and a human on the loop for anything irreversible. Citadel tightens privilege to least standing access so there is less to steal next time.

Business outcome

A compromised credential is caught while it is still one session, not an enterprise-wide breach, and the organisation moves from standing privilege everywhere to least access by default.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementShadow AI DiscoveryCompliance
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Data Protection

Data Exfiltration

Sensitive data leaves quietly long before anyone notices it is gone

Critical severity
Data Protection

Would we even know if our most sensitive data was walking out the door right now?

An attacker or insider steadily moves sensitive data out of the organisation, staging it in unusual locations and sending it out in small, low-and-slow transfers that blend into normal traffic. By the time the loss is visible, the data is already external and the disclosure clock has started.

Potential impact
  • Regulated and confidential data is exposed, triggering notification duties
  • Intellectual property and competitive advantage are lost
  • Customer trust and contractual commitments are breached
  • Extortion leverage is created from the stolen data
What Athena sees

Athena correlates signals across the security data lake to see exfiltration as a story rather than scattered events: unusual data access patterns, large or staged movements, transfers to unfamiliar destinations and access that does not match the person or the role, with Asset Intelligence flagging exactly which sensitive data is in play.

How Athena responds

Aegis weighs intent and blast radius, then blocks the egress path, quarantines the staging location and cuts the session, while Vigil sustains the watch around the clock and a human on the loop approves anything irreversible. Citadel tightens data access to least privilege and closes the routes the movement relied on.

Business outcome

The transfer is stopped before the data leaves rather than discovered after disclosure, and the organisation gains a clear, evidenced account of what was at risk and what was protected.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementComplianceThreat Intelligence
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Supply Chain and Third Party

Supply Chain Breach

A trusted supplier becomes the unguarded way into your environment

High severity
Supply Chain and Third Party

When a vendor we trust is compromised, how fast can we see and close our exposure?

A compromise reaches the organisation through a trusted third party: a software update, a managed connection or a vendor with standing access. Because the route is already trusted, malicious activity arrives pre-authorised, and the exposure can extend to the suppliers behind your suppliers.

Potential impact
  • Malicious code or access arrives through a trusted, pre-authorised path
  • Exposure cascades through fourth-party dependencies you do not directly control
  • Many customers are affected at once through a shared supplier
  • Trust in the vendor ecosystem and contracts is undermined
What Athena sees

Athena maps the vendor ecosystem through Third and Fourth Party Risk and Attack Surface Management, so a trusted connection behaving abnormally stands out: a vendor pathway reaching beyond its normal scope, an update introducing unexpected behaviour, or third-party threat intelligence indicating a supplier is compromised.

How Athena responds

Aegis isolates the affected integration and constrains the vendor pathway the moment trust is in doubt, while Vigil monitors the blast radius around the clock and a human on the loop governs anything irreversible. Themis, our cyber risk intelligence capability powered by MaxxSure, quantifies the exposure as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars so the response is prioritised by what is genuinely at stake.

Business outcome

A trusted-path compromise is contained to one integration instead of cascading through the estate, and leadership prioritises vendor risk with a clear, board legible view of exposure.

FunctionsThird and Fourth Party RiskAttack Surface ManagementCyber Risk QuantificationThreat Intelligence
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationThreat IntelligenceSecurity Data Lake
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilThemis
AI and Shadow AI

Shadow AI Exposure

Unsanctioned AI tools become an invisible path for sensitive data

High severity
AI and Shadow AI

How much of our sensitive data is already flowing into AI tools we never approved?

Teams adopt AI assistants, copilots and external models faster than security can sanction them. Sensitive data, source code and customer records flow into tools the organisation does not control or even know about, creating exposure that never appears on any approved inventory.

Potential impact
  • Confidential and regulated data is shared with unapproved AI services
  • Intellectual property is exposed to models outside the organisation's control
  • Compliance and contractual data handling commitments are breached
  • An unmanaged attack surface grows with no visibility
What Athena sees

Athena's Shadow AI Discovery finds the AI tools in use across the organisation that no one approved, maps what data is flowing into them and builds an AI usage picture, while Attack Surface Management and Compliance flag where that usage breaches policy or regulated data handling obligations.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates a graded response: Aegis can constrain or block the risky data path, Vigil keeps watch around the clock, and a human on the loop decides what to sanction, restrict or bring under governance. Citadel then brings approved AI use under management so adoption continues safely rather than being driven further underground.

Business outcome

Shadow AI moves from an invisible exposure to a governed, visible inventory, and the organisation can embrace AI productivity without leaking its most sensitive data.

FunctionsShadow AI DiscoveryAttack Surface ManagementComplianceAsset Intelligence
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Cloud and SaaS

Cloud Misconfiguration

A single setting can leave critical cloud data open to the world

High severity
Cloud and SaaS

How many of our cloud resources are one wrong setting away from public exposure?

In fast-moving cloud and SaaS environments, a single misconfigured storage bucket, over-permissive role or exposed service can leave sensitive data and systems open to anyone. These gaps are easy to create, easy to miss and continuously scanned for by attackers.

Potential impact
  • Sensitive data is left publicly accessible with no breach required
  • Over-permissive access lets a small foothold reach far
  • Exposed services become an entry point into the wider estate
  • Compliance posture drifts silently out of policy
What Athena sees

Athena's Attack Surface Management and Asset Intelligence continuously map the cloud and SaaS estate and surface dangerous configuration drift: public exposure that should be private, permissions that exceed need, and services reachable from the internet, with Compliance flagging where the posture breaches policy.

How Athena responds

Athena prioritises the findings by real exposure, Aegis can move to constrain a dangerously open resource, and a human on the loop confirms the change so nothing critical breaks. Citadel hardens the configuration to a secure baseline and keeps it there, while Themis, powered by MaxxSure, expresses the residual exposure as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars.

Business outcome

Risky cloud gaps are found and closed before they are exploited rather than after, and the cloud estate holds a secure baseline that leadership can see and trust.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceComplianceCyber Risk Quantification
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisCitadelThemis
Insider and Human Risk

Insider Misuse

A trusted account walks data out the front door without tripping a single alarm

High severity
Insider and Human Risk

Would we know if one of our own people quietly took what they should never touch?

A privileged employee or contractor uses access they legitimately hold to reach records, finance systems or intellectual property that fall outside their role, then moves that data to personal storage or a departing-employee device. Because the credentials are valid and the behaviour looks routine, traditional perimeter controls wave it through. The damage is recognised only after the person, and the data, have gone.

Potential impact
  • Loss of regulated records, deal data or trade secrets to a departing or disgruntled insider
  • Privilege creep that lets one account reach far beyond its actual job
  • Regulatory and notification exposure when protected data leaves through a trusted channel
  • Slow, manual investigations that cannot prove what was accessed or taken
What Athena sees

Vigil, the 24/7 agentic SOC, correlates identity behaviour against each person's normal role using Asset Intelligence and the Security Data Lake, so access that drifts beyond genuine need stands out even when the credentials are valid. Athena flags the unusual reach, the off-pattern data pull and the dormant or over-privileged account before it becomes an exit.

How Athena responds

Aegis acts on the signal with a human in the loop: it can step up verification, restrict the over-broad entitlement, isolate the affected session and open an investigation packet automatically. Incident and Case Management assembles a clean timeline of who reached what and when, so leadership decides with the full picture rather than a hunch.

Business outcome

Insider risk becomes a governed control. Access is matched to need, off-pattern activity is caught early, and every action traces to evidence, so the organisation can act, prove and recover with confidence.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic Orchestration
Defends withVigilAegisAthena
Supply Chain and Third Party

Third Party Breach

Your supplier gets breached and the blast radius lands on you

Critical severity
Supply Chain and Third Party

If our most connected vendor is compromised tomorrow, how fast do we even know it touches us?

A supplier, managed service provider or software vendor with trusted access to your environment is compromised. The attacker uses that established connection, a remote access path, an integration token or a shared identity, to reach into your estate. The incident is theirs, but the exposure, the regulatory duty and the recovery cost become yours. Often the link that carries it in is one nobody was actively watching.

Potential impact
  • Compromise that arrives through a trusted vendor connection rather than your perimeter
  • Exposure inherited from a fourth party your supplier relied on
  • Regulatory and contractual liability for data the vendor held or touched
  • Concentration risk when many critical services depend on one provider
What Athena sees

Athena keeps a live picture of who and what connects into the estate. Attack Surface Management and Third and Fourth Party Risk map every trusted vendor path and the dependencies behind them, while Threat Intelligence watches for signs a supplier has been compromised, so a connection turning hostile is seen as it happens rather than weeks later.

How Athena responds

Vigil correlates the vendor signal with activity inside your estate, and Aegis can contain the trusted path with a human in the loop: revoke or restrict the integration, quarantine the affected sessions and isolate the reach before it spreads. Themis, the cyber risk intelligence capability powered by MaxxSure, prices what that supplier adds to your exposure so the response is matched to the real stakes.

Business outcome

Third party risk stops being a blind spot. The vendor estate is mapped, monitored and priced continuously, so a supplier incident is contained quickly and the board sees exactly what it means for the organisation.

FunctionsThird and Fourth Party RiskAttack Surface ManagementThreat IntelligenceCyber Risk Quantification
FoundationsThreat IntelligenceSecurity Data LakeAgentic Orchestration
Defends withAthenaVigilAegisThemis
OT, IoT and Cyber Physical

OT System Compromise

A command reaches the plant floor and the risk shifts from data to safety

Critical severity
OT, IoT and Cyber Physical

Can we see the seam where our corporate network meets the machines that must never fail?

An attacker crosses from the IT environment into operational technology, the control systems, PLCs and engineering workstations that run a plant, a grid or a clinical device estate. A rogue command, a forced unsafe state or a path that simply should not exist puts physical processes at risk. These systems often cannot be patched or fitted with endpoint tools, so the danger is the unwatched seam between the office network and the machines.

Potential impact
  • A deliberate trip of generation, production or treatment assets
  • A forced unsafe state where safety, not just uptime, is on the line
  • Compromise reaching unpatchable controllers and connected devices
  • A return to unpractised manual operation when control systems are lost
What Athena sees

Athena gives the OT estate the visibility it usually lacks. Attack Surface Management and Asset Intelligence map the IT to OT seam, the engineering access paths and the connected devices that endpoint tools cannot see, while Vigil watches for movement toward control systems and the off-pattern commands that signal a crossing in progress.

How Athena responds

Aegis responds with a human in the loop and an OT-safe posture: it can isolate the path between IT and OT, quarantine the compromised workstation and contain the reach without forcing an unsafe stop on a live physical process. Citadel hardens the seam ahead of time, tightening the access paths and dormant credentials that let the crossing happen at all.

Business outcome

The IT to OT seam becomes a watched, hardened boundary rather than a blind spot. Crossings are caught early and contained safely, so physical operations and safety are protected and the organisation keeps running.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeThreat IntelligenceAgentic Orchestration
Defends withVigilAegisCitadelAthena
Cyber Risk Quantification and Insurance

Insurance Coverage Gap

You discover what your cyber policy will not pay at the worst possible moment

High severity
Cyber Risk Quantification and Insurance

If we had a major incident this quarter, what would the policy actually cover, and what falls to us?

An organisation believes it is insured against cyber loss, but the real coverage is narrower than the board assumes. Exclusions, sub-limits and unmet warranty conditions sit unexamined until a claim tests them. The gap between what the organisation would lose and what the policy will pay only becomes visible after the event, when it is too late to close it.

Potential impact
  • A claim reduced or declined because of an exclusion or unmet condition
  • A sub-limit that caps recovery far below the actual loss
  • Premiums and terms set on a stale, once-a-year picture of posture
  • A board that cannot see the dollar gap between exposure and coverage
What Athena sees

Themis, the cyber risk intelligence capability powered by MaxxSure, makes the gap visible before the event. Cyber Insurance Readiness sets the probable maximum loss in dollars against the policy and surfaces the exclusions and sub-limits, while Cyber Risk Quantification expresses the whole posture as a board legible score that moves as the real risk moves, not once a year.

How Athena responds

Because Athena runs the operations underneath, the quantification stays continuous and evidence backed. Aegis and Vigil keep the live posture current, so when warranty conditions slip or exposure grows, Themis re-prices the gap and Dashboards and Reporting puts the dollar figure and the coverage shortfall in front of the board and the broker before renewal.

Business outcome

The coverage gap is closed before the breach, not discovered after it. Leadership sees exposure and coverage in the same view, in dollars, and can buy, transfer or accept risk as a deliberate decision.

FunctionsCyber Insurance ReadinessCyber Risk QuantificationDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic Orchestration
Defends withThemisAthenaVigil
Governance, Risk and Compliance

Board Visibility Failure

The board governs cyber risk on a picture that is months out of date

High severity
Governance, Risk and Compliance

When the board asks how exposed we are right now, can we answer in one number we trust?

The board is accountable for cyber risk but governs it through quarterly slideware, conflicting tool dashboards and assurances that cannot be traced to evidence. Posture has moved since the last report, yet decisions, appetite and investment ride on a stale snapshot. The failure is not a breach, it is governing a live, material risk without a current, defensible view of it.

Potential impact
  • Risk decisions and appetite set on a stale, point-in-time picture
  • Conflicting tool dashboards that cannot be reconciled into one answer
  • Assurances to the board that cannot be traced back to evidence
  • Compliance posture that drifts unseen between audit cycles
What Athena sees

Athena resolves the fragments into one current view. Dashboards and Reporting renders a board tier picture from live operations, Compliance keeps posture continuous and evidence backed rather than audit to audit, and Threat Intelligence keeps the context fresh, so the board sees where the organisation genuinely stands today, not last quarter.

How Athena responds

Themis, the cyber risk intelligence capability powered by MaxxSure, turns that operating picture into the answer a director asks for: a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars, set against the appetite the board itself defined. Because Athena runs the operations underneath, the number moves as the risk moves and every figure traces to the evidence behind it.

Business outcome

The board governs from one current, defensible view. Exposure is expressed in a single score and in dollars, posture is continuous and evidence backed, and directors can set appetite and direct investment with confidence.

FunctionsDashboards and ReportingComplianceCyber Risk Quantification
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeThreat IntelligenceAgentic Orchestration
Defends withAthenaThemisVigil
AI and Shadow AI

AI Data Leakage

Sensitive data walks into an AI tool nobody approved and does not come back

High severity
AI and Shadow AI

Do we actually know which AI tools our people use, and what we are feeding them?

Employees reach for unsanctioned AI assistants and copilots to move faster, pasting source code, customer records or confidential strategy into tools the organisation never approved or governs. Sensitive data leaves the estate quietly, embedded in prompts and integrations no one is watching. The leak is not a dramatic breach, it is a steady, invisible outflow through convenience.

Potential impact
  • Regulated and confidential data pasted into unsanctioned AI tools
  • Intellectual property and source code leaving through prompts and plugins
  • Rogue automations sending sensitive data somewhere no one approved
  • An AI usage estate leadership cannot see, sanction or govern
What Athena sees

Athena brings the half-light of unsanctioned AI into full view. Shadow AI Discovery maps the AI tools, copilots and automations actually in use across the estate and the sensitive data flowing into them, while the Security Data Lake and Vigil reveal the quiet outflows and rogue automations that send data somewhere no one approved.

How Athena responds

With the AI usage estate in view, leadership can sanction the good and shut down the rest. Aegis acts with a human in the loop to restrict the risky data flow and contain the rogue automation, while Compliance holds the line on what data may leave and to where, so AI accelerates the business inside a governed boundary rather than outside it.

Business outcome

Shadow AI becomes governed AI. Leadership sees every tool and data flow, sanctions what helps, shuts down what leaks, and lets the organisation use AI with confidence instead of exposure.

FunctionsShadow AI DiscoveryComplianceAsset Intelligence
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaVigilAegis
Insider and Human Risk

Business Email Compromise

A trusted inbox is turned into an instrument of fraud, and money leaves before anyone notices

Critical severity
Insider and Human Risk

If a finance instruction arrived from a familiar name and address, would your controls question it, or just pay it?

An attacker quietly takes over or convincingly imitates a trusted mailbox, then uses it to redirect a payment, alter banking details or push a colleague to act. The request looks normal because it comes from a known sender, so it slips past people and most filters. The damage is financial loss, fraud and a relationship of trust that has been turned against you.

Potential impact
  • Funds wired to an attacker controlled account before the fraud is recognised
  • Vendor and payroll payment details altered, diverting future payments
  • Confidential deal, legal or HR information disclosed under a familiar name
  • Mailbox rules created to hide replies, delaying detection for weeks
What Athena sees

Athena reads the inbox and the identity behind it for intent, not just signatures. It surfaces a mailbox behaving unlike its owner: a new sign in location or device, a sudden burst of forwarding or hide rules, a payment instruction that breaks the normal pattern of who asks whom for what. The Security Data Lake correlates the message with the account, the device and the request so a familiar name stops being a free pass.

How Athena responds

Aegis weighs the request against how this sender and this relationship usually behave and reasons about the financial blast radius rather than firing on one keyword. Vigil keeps the around the clock watch, able to quarantine the message, revoke the session, remove malicious mailbox rules and step up authentication inside the window that matters, with a human on the loop before any irreversible action. Citadel hardens the ground underneath by enforcing strong authentication and tightening mailbox and forwarding policy.

Business outcome

Payment fraud is caught while it is still a request and not yet a loss. Leaders get fewer compromised mailboxes, faster detection when one turns, and a clear, contained record of what happened for finance, audit and insurers.

FunctionsIncident and Case ManagementThreat IntelligenceAsset IntelligenceCyber Risk Quantification
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Application and API

Broken API Authorisation

An exposed API lets one valid token quietly read records that were never meant for it

Critical severity
Application and API

If a legitimate token asked for a customer record it does not own, would your API say no, or hand it over?

An application interface trusts the request but fails to fully check who is allowed to see what. A valid user or token walks through the front door and then reaches sideways into records and functions that belong to others. There is no breach of the wall, just an authorisation gap that turns ordinary access into mass data exposure.

Potential impact
  • Bulk customer or patient records enumerated through a single endpoint
  • Sensitive fields exposed because object level checks were skipped
  • Privileged actions invoked by accounts that should never reach them
  • Quiet data exfiltration that resembles legitimate API traffic
What Athena sees

Athena keeps a live picture of the application and API attack surface and the assets behind it. Attack Surface Management and Asset Intelligence map which endpoints exist, which are exposed and what data they reach, while the Security Data Lake watches for a valid identity whose requests suddenly fan out across records and objects it has never touched before. Authorised access that behaves like enumeration stops looking normal.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about the pattern rather than a single call: this token, this endpoint, this sweep across objects, this reach beyond its usual scope, and weighs the data blast radius. Vigil holds the 24/7 watch and can throttle or revoke the token, isolate the session and flag the endpoint for containment inside the window that matters, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible. Citadel hardens the surface by surfacing exposed and unauthenticated endpoints, tightening least privilege and keeping the API estate inventoried and governed.

Business outcome

An authorisation gap is caught as abnormal reach before it becomes a mass disclosure. Leaders get a known, governed API surface, faster detection of access that drifts beyond its scope and contained exposure when a flaw is found.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementThreat Intelligence
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Operational Resilience

DDoS Availability Attack

A flood of traffic takes a revenue critical service offline at the worst possible moment

High severity
Operational Resilience

If your busiest customer facing service were buried under traffic right now, how long until you knew, and how long until it was back?

An overwhelming volume of traffic is aimed at a public service until legitimate customers can no longer get through. Nothing is stolen, but the service stops responding, often timed to a launch, a settlement window or a peak trading period. The damage is lost revenue, broken commitments and a very public outage, sometimes used as cover for activity elsewhere.

Potential impact
  • A customer facing or trading service made unreachable during peak demand
  • Service level commitments and contractual obligations missed
  • Direct revenue loss and downstream operational backlog
  • The flood used as a distraction while attention is elsewhere
What Athena sees

Athena keeps a live map of the external attack surface and the availability of the services on it. Attack Surface Management and Asset Intelligence mark which public endpoints are revenue critical, while the Security Data Lake watches request volume, source spread and latency for the early shape of a flood, the availability pressure building before customers feel it.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about whether the surge is real demand or an attack and weighs which service, which dependency and which business window is under pressure, rather than reacting to raw volume alone. Vigil holds the 24/7 watch and can trigger rate limiting, traffic shaping and upstream mitigation and raise an incident inside the window that matters, with a human on the loop for high impact moves. Citadel hardens the edge in advance by tightening exposure, removing needless public surface and validating availability protections so the pressure has less to push on.

Business outcome

Availability is defended as a business commitment, not just a network metric. Leaders get earlier warning of a building flood, faster mitigation of a revenue critical outage and a clear view of which services and windows carry the most risk.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Governance, Risk and Compliance

Compliance Evidence Gap

The control exists, but the evidence does not, and an audit treats absence as failure

High severity
Governance, Risk and Compliance

When the auditor asks for proof a control ran every day this quarter, can you produce it in minutes, or does the scramble begin?

A required control is in place on paper, but the continuous evidence that it actually operated is missing, stale or scattered across tools. When an audit, a regulator or an insurer asks for proof, the organisation cannot show it. The gap is not a breach, it is an inability to demonstrate that you are doing what you claim, which carries its own financial and legal weight.

Potential impact
  • Audit findings and qualified results where a control could not be evidenced
  • Regulatory exposure for failing to demonstrate required safeguards
  • Frantic, manual evidence gathering ahead of every assessment
  • Cyber insurance questions answered with assertions rather than proof
What Athena sees

Athena treats evidence as a living asset, not a once a year file. Compliance and Dashboards and Reporting continuously map controls to requirements and watch where the proof of operation goes missing, stale or contradicts the asset reality the Security Data Lake already holds. A control that stops producing evidence is surfaced as a gap long before an assessor finds it.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about which gaps carry real exposure, weighing the requirement, the asset coverage and the business consequence so attention goes to what matters, not every minor variance. Vigil keeps the around the clock watch, raising and tracking the gap as a case, assigning ownership and chasing it to closure with a human on the loop. Citadel hardens the control environment so evidence is generated as a by-product of operating well, and Themis, drawing on the cyber risk intelligence powered by MaxxSure that Athena adopts, expresses the residual gap as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars so leaders can see the exposure in business terms.

Business outcome

Compliance shifts from a periodic scramble to a continuous, evidenced state. Leaders walk into audits and insurance reviews able to prove controls operated, with open gaps tracked, owned and priced as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars.

FunctionsComplianceDashboards and ReportingCyber Risk QuantificationCyber Insurance Readiness
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaCitadelVigilThemis
Identity and Access

Service Account Misuse

A non human account no one watches becomes the quietest way through the estate

High severity
Identity and Access

Do you know what every service account in your estate is actually allowed to do, and whether one is doing more than it should right now?

Service accounts, machine identities and automation credentials run quietly in the background with broad standing access and little oversight. When one is over privileged, shared or stolen, it becomes an ideal route through the estate because nobody is watching it the way they watch a person. The result is privileged movement that looks like routine automation until it is far too late.

Potential impact
  • An over privileged machine identity used to move laterally and reach sensitive systems
  • Standing credentials abused with none of the scrutiny applied to human logins
  • Hard coded or shared secrets reused across systems and never rotated
  • Privileged automation paths exploited under the cover of normal jobs
What Athena sees

Athena watches identity as a living graph that includes the non human population most tools ignore. Asset Intelligence inventories service accounts and what they can reach, while the Security Data Lake learns the narrow rhythm each automation normally follows. When a service account logs in from somewhere new, escalates, reaches beyond its usual systems or wakes with intent, the deviation stands out precisely because machine behaviour is so predictable.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about whether this is the automation or someone wearing it, correlating the account, the host, the escalation and the reach and weighing blast radius rather than firing on one event. Vigil holds the 24/7 watch and can revoke the credential, isolate the session and freeze the account inside the window that matters, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible. Citadel hardens the ground by pruning unused service accounts, cutting standing privilege to least access, enforcing secret rotation and keeping the machine identity estate clean.

Business outcome

The accounts no one watches become the accounts Athena watches most. Leaders get a known, least privileged machine identity estate, fast detection when a service account behaves unlike itself and contained impact when one is abused.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementIncident and Case ManagementThreat Intelligence
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Ransomware and Extortion

Backup Tampering

The recovery you were counting on is quietly disabled before the ransom note ever lands

Critical severity
Ransomware and Extortion

If everything were encrypted tonight, are you certain your backups are intact, or only hoping they are?

Before encrypting anything, an attacker goes after the one thing that would let you say no to a ransom: your backups. Snapshots are deleted, retention is shortened, replication is broken and recovery jobs are quietly disabled. When the encryption finally hits, there is no clean restore to fall back on, which is exactly what turns an incident into a payment decision.

Potential impact
  • Backups deleted, corrupted or expired so no clean restore point survives
  • Recovery and replication jobs disabled without anyone noticing
  • An organisation pushed toward paying because recovery is no longer an option
  • Extended downtime and a far slower, more costly restoration
What Athena sees

Athena treats the ability to recover as an asset to be defended in its own right. Asset Intelligence keeps a live picture of backup repositories, jobs and policies, while the Security Data Lake watches for the tell tale moves against recovery: mass snapshot deletion, retention quietly shortened, replication broken, recovery jobs disabled. Tampering with the safety net is surfaced as its own high signal event, ahead of any encryption.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about the sequence rather than a lone change, recognising a deliberate march against recovery and weighing how close the organisation is to losing its last clean restore point. Vigil holds the 24/7 watch and can isolate the affected systems, freeze the offending account and protect remaining backups inside the window that matters, with a human on the loop for irreversible action. Citadel hardens recovery in advance by enforcing immutable and offline copies, tightening who can alter backups and validating that restore points are real, and Themis, drawing on the cyber risk intelligence powered by MaxxSure that Athena adopts, expresses recovery exposure as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars.

Business outcome

The path to a ransom demand is cut off before it opens, because the recovery you depend on is watched and protected, not assumed. Leaders keep the ability to say no, with backup integrity defended, attacks on recovery caught early and exposure priced as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementCyber Risk QuantificationCyber Insurance Readiness
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadelThemis
AI and Shadow AI

Prompt Injection Against Agents

A hidden instruction in ordinary content turns a trusted AI agent against the business

High severity
AI and Shadow AI

If an AI agent reads a poisoned document, who is really giving it instructions?

Your teams have given AI agents access to email, documents, tickets and internal systems. An attacker plants a hidden instruction inside content the agent reads, a web page, an attachment, a support ticket, and the agent follows it as if it came from you. The agent then leaks data, takes unauthorised actions or quietly changes its own behaviour, all under a trusted identity.

Potential impact
  • Confidential data exfiltrated through an agent that was trusted with broad access
  • Unauthorised actions taken inside finance, identity or operational systems
  • Manipulated outputs that mislead staff and corrupt downstream decisions
  • An expanding population of agents and integrations that no one fully governs
What Athena sees

Athena runs Shadow AI Discovery to find every agent, model and integration in use, then watches each agent as a live actor in the Security Data Lake. It surfaces an agent that suddenly requests data outside its task, calls a tool it never normally uses, or acts on instructions that did not come from an authorised operator.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about the agent's behaviour against its expected task and blast radius rather than firing on a single event, while Vigil watches around the clock and can pause the agent, revoke its access and isolate the affected session within the window that matters, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible. Citadel hardens the estate by constraining agent permissions to least access and governing how new agents are approved.

Business outcome

AI adoption keeps moving because every agent is discovered, governed and watched. When one is manipulated, the action is caught and contained before it reaches data or systems, and the board sees a measured AI risk rather than an open question.

FunctionsShadow AI DiscoveryAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementThreat Intelligence
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Cryptographic and Future Risk

Harvest Now Decrypt Later

Encrypted data stolen today becomes readable the day quantum computing catches up

High severity
Cryptographic and Future Risk

How much of the data leaving us today will still be sensitive when it can finally be decrypted?

An attacker copies encrypted data now with no intention of breaking it yet. The plan is patient: store it, and decrypt it later once cryptography that protects it today is no longer strong enough. Long lived secrets, intellectual property, health records and classified material carry that risk for years, so a quiet exfiltration now becomes a breach in the future.

Potential impact
  • Long lived sensitive data exposed years after it was taken
  • Intellectual property and trade secrets readable once protection weakens
  • Regulated records breached long after the original event
  • No visibility into which data was harvested and how long it stays sensitive
What Athena sees

Athena uses Attack Surface Management and Asset Intelligence to map where sensitive, long lived data lives and how it leaves the estate, then watches the Security Data Lake for bulk reads and unusual outbound flows that signal quiet harvesting rather than active misuse.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the exfiltration pattern into one story and weighs which data was touched and how long it stays sensitive, while Vigil can throttle, isolate and investigate the flow around the clock. Citadel governs the cryptographic estate, surfacing where ageing encryption is in use and prioritising the move to stronger, future ready protection. Themis, our cyber risk intelligence powered by MaxxSure, expresses the exposure as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars so the future risk is funded today.

Business outcome

Leadership can see which data carries long horizon risk, reduce what leaves the estate, and prioritise stronger cryptography where it matters most. The patient threat becomes a planned programme with a clear business case rather than a surprise breach years from now.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceCyber Risk QuantificationThreat Intelligence
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeThreat IntelligenceAgentic Orchestration
Defends withAthenaCitadelThemisVigil