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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
Identity and Access

MFA Fatigue

A flood of login prompts wears a user down until one approval opens the door

High severity
Identity and Access

Could one tired approval at midnight hand over a fully trusted account?

An attacker already holds a valid password and triggers a stream of multi factor approval requests, hoping the user eventually taps approve to make them stop. One distracted or exhausted approval is enough. The login then looks legitimate, and the attacker moves inside the estate under a trusted identity.

Potential impact
  • Account takeover that looks like a normal, approved sign in
  • Lateral movement and data access under a legitimate user
  • A foothold that is reused to escalate privilege quietly
  • Erosion of trust in multi factor authentication as a control
What Athena sees

Athena watches identity as a living graph in the Security Data Lake and surfaces the tell of fatigue: a burst of repeated approval requests, prompts at odd hours, requests from an unfamiliar location or device, and an approval that follows many denials. The pattern stands out long before the account is misused.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the prompt storm, the eventual approval and what the session does next into one story and weighs intent rather than firing on a single event. Vigil acts around the clock, stepping up or blocking authentication, isolating the session and revoking tokens within the window that matters, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible. Citadel hardens the ground by moving high risk identities to phishing resistant authentication and tightening prompt policy.

Business outcome

A trusted approval no longer becomes a silent breach. Suspicious prompt patterns are caught and contained early, privileged identities move to stronger authentication, and the organisation keeps the convenience of MFA without the fatigue exposure.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementThreat IntelligenceDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Identity and Access

Dormant Admin Abuse

A forgotten admin account wakes up with full rights and no one notices

High severity
Identity and Access

How many powerful accounts in our estate are dormant, and who would notice if one woke up?

Privileged accounts pile up over time: a departed administrator, an old service account, a break glass login that was never retired. They sit dormant with high rights and weak oversight. An attacker who finds one wakes it and operates with full privilege under an identity no one is watching.

Potential impact
  • Full privilege access through an account no one was monitoring
  • Changes to controls, data and systems under a trusted admin identity
  • Persistence that survives because the account looks legitimate
  • Audit and compliance gaps from unmanaged privileged accounts
What Athena sees

Athena maps the privileged identity estate through Asset Intelligence and watches it as a living graph. It surfaces a dormant admin account waking with intent: a first sign in after long silence, an unusual device or location, and privileged actions from an identity that should have been retired.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about the account, the session and the privileged actions as one story and weighs blast radius rather than firing on a single login. Vigil acts around the clock to isolate the session, revoke tokens and freeze the account within the window that matters, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible. Citadel closes the ground by pruning dormant accounts, retiring stale privilege and enforcing least standing access so there are fewer powerful accounts to wake.

Business outcome

Forgotten privilege stops being a hidden door. Dormant admin accounts are found and retired before they can be abused, and any account that wakes with intent is caught and contained, giving leadership a clean, governed privileged estate.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementIncident and Case ManagementCompliance
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Identity and Access

Excessive Privilege Escalation

A modest account quietly climbs until it can reach almost anything

High severity
Identity and Access

If one ordinary account drifted upward in rights, would we see it before it reached the crown jewels?

Access rarely stays where it started. A routine account gains one more role, one more group, one more entitlement until it holds far more power than its job requires. An attacker who lands on such an account, or who nudges it upward, ends up with reach across the estate without ever needing to break in again.

Potential impact
  • Standing access far wider than any role requires
  • A single account that can reach critical systems and data
  • Lateral movement made easy by over provisioned rights
  • Audit findings and compliance exposure from privilege creep
What Athena sees

Athena watches entitlements as a living graph through Asset Intelligence and Attack Surface Management. It surfaces privilege that drifts upward: new roles added quietly, entitlements that exceed the job, and an account whose effective reach now touches systems it never should.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates each escalation step and the reach it unlocks into one story and reasons about blast radius rather than alerting on a single grant. Vigil can step in around the clock to roll back risky access, isolate a session and freeze further escalation within the window that matters, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible. Citadel hardens the estate by tightening privilege to least standing access, removing unused entitlements and governing how rights are granted.

Business outcome

Privilege creep is turned into a managed control. Over provisioned access is found and trimmed before it is abused, escalation is caught as it happens, and the organisation keeps least access as a living standard rather than a once a year audit.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementComplianceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Identity and Access

Session Token Theft

A stolen session token lets an attacker skip the password and the MFA prompt entirely

High severity
Identity and Access

If a live session token were stolen, would multi factor authentication even slow the attacker down?

After a user signs in, a session token keeps them logged in so they do not reauthenticate on every action. If an attacker steals that token, from a compromised device, a malicious browser extension or an interception attack, they ride the existing session straight past the password and the MFA prompt, appearing as the genuine user.

Potential impact
  • Authenticated access without ever defeating MFA
  • Data and system actions taken inside a hijacked session
  • A bypass that makes strong login controls look effective while failing
  • Difficult forensics because activity sits inside a real user session
What Athena sees

Athena watches sessions and identity as a living graph in the Security Data Lake. It surfaces a token used from a new device, an impossible travel jump mid session, a token appearing in two places at once, and session behaviour that stops matching the genuine user.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the session anomaly, the token reuse and what the session does next into one story and reasons about intent rather than a single signal. Vigil acts around the clock to revoke the token, force reauthentication and isolate the session within the window that matters, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible. Citadel hardens the ground with shorter token lifetimes, device bound sessions and tighter session policy so a stolen token is worth far less.

Business outcome

A stolen session is no longer a free pass. Token misuse is detected by behaviour, the session is revoked fast, and stronger session controls shrink the window of value, so MFA keeps its meaning and access stays tied to the real user.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementThreat IntelligenceAttack Surface Management
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Ransomware and Extortion

Double Extortion

One intrusion becomes two threats at once. Your systems are locked and your stolen data is held for public release.

Critical severity
Ransomware and Extortion

If our files were encrypted today, could an attacker also walk out with a copy and threaten to publish it?

An attacker quietly moves through the environment, copies sensitive data out before anyone notices, and then encrypts systems to halt operations. The organisation now faces a ransom to restore access and a second demand to stop the stolen data being leaked, so a clean backup alone no longer ends the crisis.

Potential impact
  • Core operations stall while systems stay encrypted
  • Sensitive customer and employee data threatened with public release
  • Regulatory notification and legal exposure once exfiltration is confirmed
  • Pressure to pay even after recovery, because the data threat remains
What Athena sees

Vigil, the 24/7 agentic SOC, correlates the early signals of staging and bulk data movement, while Aegis flags the unusual outbound transfer and the first signs of mass file change before encryption spreads.

How Athena responds

Aegis autonomously isolates the affected hosts and chokes the outbound exfiltration path, Athena orchestrates the case across detection, containment and evidence capture, and a human approves the high impact containment steps. Themis, powered by Maxxsure, frames the exposure as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars so leadership can decide with the full picture.

Business outcome

The intrusion is contained before encryption and exfiltration complete, the data threat is cut off at the source, and leadership gets a clear, quantified view of residual exposure instead of a surprise ransom note.

FunctionsIncident and Case ManagementThreat IntelligenceCyber Risk QuantificationCyber Insurance Readiness
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilThemis
Data Protection

SaaS Data Leakage

Sensitive data quietly drains out of sanctioned SaaS apps through oversharing, risky integrations and unmanaged connectors.

High severity
Data Protection

Do we actually know every place our SaaS data flows, including the third-party apps employees connected without asking?

Business data lives across dozens of SaaS platforms, and over time files get shared too broadly, guest accounts linger, and employees connect third-party apps that quietly pull data out. No single breach is needed. Sensitive information simply leaks through everyday oversharing and unmanaged integrations that no one is watching end to end.

Potential impact
  • Confidential documents shared with anyone holding a link
  • Third-party apps granted standing access to corporate data
  • Departed staff and guest accounts retaining access long after they should
  • Sensitive data leaving sanctioned platforms without any alert
What Athena sees

Vigil continuously watches SaaS activity and Athena's Attack Surface Management and Asset Intelligence functions map every connected app, oversharing event and standing integration, flagging the data flows that leave the sanctioned boundary.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates a review of risky shares and third-party grants, Aegis acts on the highest risk access where it is authorised to, and a human approves changes that affect business workflows. Compliance reporting captures the evidence, and Themis, powered by Maxxsure, expresses the aggregate exposure as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars.

Business outcome

Oversharing and risky integrations are surfaced and tightened before data leaves the organisation, access is brought back under control, and leadership sees SaaS data risk as a quantified, governable number rather than a blind spot.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceShadow AI DiscoveryCompliance
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaVigilAegisThemis
Cloud and SaaS

Public Storage Exposure

A single misconfigured storage bucket can leave sensitive data open to anyone on the internet.

Critical severity
Cloud and SaaS

Could a forgotten cloud bucket be exposing our customer data to the open internet right now without anyone knowing?

In a fast-moving cloud estate, a storage bucket or container is set to public, or a permission drifts open during a routine change. Sensitive data then sits exposed to anyone who finds the address. There is no break-in and no alarm. The data is simply reachable by the open internet until someone notices.

Potential impact
  • Customer or employee records readable without any credentials
  • Intellectual property and backups exposed to the open internet
  • Silent harvesting of data with no obvious sign of intrusion
  • Regulatory breach obligations triggered by public exposure
What Athena sees

Athena's Attack Surface Management function continuously discovers internet-reachable storage and Asset Intelligence ties each bucket back to its owner and data sensitivity, while Vigil watches for any access against newly exposed storage.

How Athena responds

Aegis moves to close the exposed access where it is authorised to act, Athena orchestrates the fix with the owning team and captures compliance evidence, and a human approves changes to production data stores. Themis, powered by Maxxsure, translates the exposure into a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars so the urgency is clear to leadership.

Business outcome

Public exposure is found and closed quickly, often before anyone reaches the data, ownership and accountability are restored, and the organisation gains continuous assurance that no storage is silently open to the internet.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceComplianceDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Cloud and SaaS

Disabled Cloud Logging

When cloud logging is switched off, an attacker can move freely and leave no trail to follow.

High severity
Cloud and SaaS

If logging was turned off in a corner of our cloud, would we even notice, or would we be investigating an incident blind?

Logging and audit trails in the cloud are quietly disabled, deleted or never enabled, sometimes by an attacker covering their tracks and sometimes by a routine change gone wrong. The organisation loses the ability to see what is happening, so activity goes unrecorded and any later investigation has no evidence to work from.

Potential impact
  • Attacker activity proceeds with no record left behind
  • Incident investigation stalls with no evidence to reconstruct events
  • Compliance and audit requirements for logging silently breached
  • Detection coverage gaps that no one is aware of
What Athena sees

Athena's Attack Surface Management and Asset Intelligence functions continuously verify that logging is enabled across the cloud estate, and Vigil flags the moment a log source goes dark or an audit trail configuration is changed.

How Athena responds

Aegis restores logging and quarantines the change where it is authorised to, Athena orchestrates the investigation into who altered the configuration and why, and a human approves changes to monitoring controls. Compliance reporting records the gap and its closure, and Themis, powered by Maxxsure, shows the visibility loss as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars.

Business outcome

Logging blind spots are caught and reversed quickly, full visibility is restored before an investigation is ever needed, and the organisation keeps the evidence trail that compliance and incident response depend on.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceComplianceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaVigilAegisCitadel
Application and API

Undocumented API Exposure

Forgotten and undocumented APIs sit exposed to the internet, handing attackers a door no one is watching.

High severity
Application and API

How many of our live APIs are not in any inventory, and what data would they hand over if asked?

Teams ship APIs quickly, and over time some are forgotten, left over from old projects or never added to any inventory. These shadow and undocumented APIs stay live and reachable, often without proper authorisation checks, exposing data and functions that no one is tracking or protecting.

Potential impact
  • Sensitive data reachable through endpoints no one is monitoring
  • APIs with weak or missing authorisation left exposed to the internet
  • Old endpoints from retired projects still serving live data
  • Functionality abused because no one knew the API was still active
What Athena sees

Athena's Attack Surface Management function continuously discovers internet-facing APIs, Asset Intelligence reconciles them against the known inventory to surface the undocumented ones, and Vigil watches the exposed endpoints for abuse.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates ownership and a decision to retire, protect or document each shadow API, Aegis blocks or rate-limits abusive access to exposed endpoints where it is authorised to, and a human approves changes that affect live services. Themis, powered by Maxxsure, expresses the exposed API surface as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars.

Business outcome

Shadow and undocumented APIs are found, owned and either retired or properly protected, the attack surface shrinks to what is known and governed, and leadership sees API risk as a measured number rather than an unknown.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceThreat IntelligenceDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaVigilAegisCitadel
Supply Chain and Third Party

CI Pipeline Tampering

Tamper with the build pipeline once and malicious code ships to every customer as a trusted release.

Critical severity
Supply Chain and Third Party

If someone altered our build pipeline, would we catch it, or would we sign and ship the compromise ourselves?

An attacker targets the software build and delivery pipeline rather than the finished product. By compromising a pipeline credential, a build step or a dependency, they slip malicious code into a release that the organisation then signs and ships as trusted. Every customer who installs it inherits the compromise.

Potential impact
  • Malicious code shipped to customers inside a trusted, signed release
  • Compromise inherited by every downstream customer and partner
  • Build credentials and signing keys abused to forge trust
  • Tainted dependencies pulled into production unnoticed
What Athena sees

Athena's Threat Intelligence and Asset Intelligence functions watch the build environment and its dependencies, Vigil flags unexpected changes to pipeline configuration, credentials or build steps, and Third and Fourth Party Risk surfaces exposure introduced through external components.

How Athena responds

Aegis isolates the affected pipeline and freezes suspect releases where it is authorised to, Athena orchestrates the investigation across the build chain, credentials and dependencies, and a human approves any halt to releases. Citadel hardens the pipeline configuration afterward, and Themis, powered by Maxxsure, frames the supply chain exposure as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars.

Business outcome

Tampering is caught before a compromised release reaches customers, the build chain and its credentials are secured and hardened, and the organisation protects both itself and everyone downstream from a supply chain incident.

FunctionsThreat IntelligenceAsset IntelligenceThird and Fourth Party RiskIncident and Case Management
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadelThemis
Supply Chain and Third Party

Malicious Package

A trusted dependency carries hostile code straight into production

Critical severity
Supply Chain and Third Party

If a library your developers trust turned hostile overnight, would you know before it shipped?

A widely used open source package, or a private one impersonated by a near identical name, is quietly poisoned with hostile code. Your own build pulls it in automatically, so the threat arrives through the front door you trust. By the time it runs in production it is wearing the identity of a legitimate dependency.

Potential impact
  • Hostile code executes inside your build pipeline and production environment with the permissions of trusted software
  • Credentials, signing keys and secrets are harvested from CI and developer machines
  • The compromise spreads to every customer who installs your software, turning one event into many
  • Incident scope is hard to bound because the dependency is buried deep in the software bill of materials
What Athena sees

Athena keeps a living inventory of every dependency and software component through Asset Intelligence and Attack Surface Management, so a newly introduced, typo-squatted or freshly compromised package stands out the moment it enters the estate. Threat Intelligence flags the component against known malicious-package advisories before it reaches production.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the new dependency with anomalous build behaviour and outbound connections, reasons about blast radius across affected services, and quarantines the build while Vigil watches around the clock and holds the release. Citadel hardens the pipeline by enforcing provenance, pinned versions and least-privilege build credentials, with a human on the loop before any release is blocked.

Business outcome

Athena turns supply chain dependency risk into a managed control: a known inventory, fast detection when a component turns hostile, and a contained, well-scoped response before poisoned code reaches your customers.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceThreat IntelligenceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Insider and Human Risk

Deepfake Approval Fraud

A synthetic executive voice authorises a payment that was never real

High severity
Insider and Human Risk

If your CFO appeared on a video call to approve a transfer, could your controls tell the real one from a convincing fake?

A finance team member receives an urgent video call or voice note from a senior executive, perfectly rendered down to face and cadence, instructing them to authorise a large payment or change banking details. The request is synthetic, but the relationship and the pressure feel entirely genuine, so a legitimate person approves a fraudulent action.

Potential impact
  • A high value payment or vendor bank change is authorised on the strength of a fabricated approval
  • Standard four-eyes controls are bypassed because the synthetic identity is trusted at the top of the chain
  • The fraud surfaces only at reconciliation, by which point funds have moved
  • Confidence in voice and video as proof of identity is undermined across the organisation
What Athena sees

Athena correlates the approval request against how this executive, this approver and this payment pattern normally behave, drawing on the Security Data Lake and Incident and Case Management. An out of band, out of hours, out of pattern authorisation that skips the usual workflow is surfaced as anomalous intent rather than accepted at face value.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about the request in context, weighing urgency, channel and deviation from established approval paths, and routes it for step-up verification instead of release. Vigil holds the action and escalates to a human around the clock, while Citadel hardens the process by enforcing out of band confirmation and segregation of duties for high value changes, keeping a human firmly on the loop for anything irreversible.

Business outcome

Athena turns synthetic-identity approval fraud into a managed control: requests are judged on behaviour and context, high value actions demand verified confirmation, and a fabricated approval is stopped before money leaves the building.

FunctionsThreat IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigil
Network and Lateral Movement

Lateral Movement

One foothold quietly becomes access to everything that matters

Critical severity
Network and Lateral Movement

Once an attacker is inside one machine, how far could they travel before anyone noticed?

An intruder establishes a single foothold, perhaps a compromised laptop or a low value server, then moves sideways through the network, hopping host to host and harvesting credentials along the way. Each step looks like ordinary internal activity, so the path from a minor breach to the crown jewels stays hidden until the damage is concentrated.

Potential impact
  • A minor initial compromise escalates into access to critical systems and sensitive data
  • Attacker dwell time grows because each hop resembles normal east-west traffic
  • Domain controllers, backups and privileged accounts are reached and staged for impact
  • Containment becomes costly once the intruder holds multiple footholds across the estate
What Athena sees

Athena models the estate as a connected graph through Asset Intelligence and Attack Surface Management, so unusual east-west connections, credential reuse across hosts and privilege that drifts upward stand out against the normal pattern of internal traffic. The Security Data Lake stitches weak signals from many systems into one coherent path.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the hops into a single story rather than firing on isolated alerts, reasoning about the intended destination and blast radius. Vigil acts around the clock to isolate compromised hosts, revoke reused credentials and cut the path before it reaches the crown jewels, while Citadel tightens segmentation and least standing privilege so there are fewer routes to travel, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible.

Business outcome

Athena turns lateral movement from an invisible march into a managed control: internal activity is read as a connected story, the attacker path is cut early, and a minor foothold never becomes an enterprise event.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementThreat Intelligence
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Network and Lateral Movement

Command and Control Beaconing

A quiet, regular signal hands an outsider the keys to act inside

Critical severity
Network and Lateral Movement

Is one of your systems calling out to an operator right now, hidden in everyday traffic?

A compromised host checks in with an external operator at quiet, regular intervals, blending its signal into ordinary web traffic. Each beacon is small and unremarkable, but together they form an open channel through which an outsider can issue commands, stage tools and prepare to exfiltrate data on demand.

Potential impact
  • An external operator holds a persistent, low-profile channel into the environment
  • Tools and instructions are delivered on demand to deepen the compromise
  • Sensitive data is staged and exfiltrated through the same trusted-looking channel
  • The beacon hides in normal outbound traffic, extending dwell time and dwell cost
What Athena sees

Athena learns the normal rhythm of outbound traffic across the Security Data Lake and flags the tell-tale regularity, timing and destinations of beaconing that human eyes and static rules miss. Threat Intelligence matches the destinations and patterns against known command and control infrastructure, and Attack Surface Management ties the signal back to a specific asset.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the periodic signal, its destination and the host behaviour into a single verdict rather than dismissing it as noise, and reasons about what the channel is being used for. Vigil acts around the clock to block the destination, isolate the host and sever the channel, while Citadel hardens egress controls and closes the gaps the beacon relied on, with a human on the loop before any irreversible action.

Business outcome

Athena turns command and control beaconing into a managed control: hidden channels are heard against the normal rhythm, the link to the operator is cut quickly, and a quiet foothold never matures into data loss.

FunctionsThreat IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementIncident and Case ManagementAsset Intelligence
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Governance, Risk and Compliance

Control Drift

Controls that passed audit quietly stop doing their job

High severity
Governance, Risk and Compliance

Your last audit was green, but is every control still configured the way it was the day it passed?

Security controls that were correctly configured at audit time slowly fall out of alignment. A rule is loosened for a project, a setting reverts after an upgrade, an exception is never closed. Each change is small and reasonable, but together they leave the organisation exposed and out of compliance while the paperwork still says everything is fine.

Potential impact
  • Controls that an audit certified no longer enforce what the policy requires
  • Compliance status on paper diverges from the real configuration of the estate
  • Exposure accumulates quietly between audits, widening the gap an attacker can use
  • A failed audit or a breach reveals drift that had been building for months
What Athena sees

Athena continuously compares the live configuration of the estate against the required control baseline through Compliance, Asset Intelligence and Attack Surface Management, so drift is caught the day it happens rather than at the next audit. Dashboards and Reporting keep a continuous, evidence-backed view of where posture has slipped.

How Athena responds

Aegis prioritises the drifted controls by real exposure rather than treating every deviation alike, and routes the material ones for action. Vigil tracks remediation around the clock and flags exceptions that are never closed, while Citadel restores controls to baseline, hardens configurations and keeps a continuous evidence trail, with a human on the loop to approve any change that affects production.

Business outcome

Athena turns control drift into a managed control: posture is measured continuously, slipped controls are restored before they matter, and compliance evidence reflects reality rather than the last audit.

FunctionsComplianceAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data Lake
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Governance, Risk and Compliance

Risk Appetite Breach

Exposure quietly climbs past the limit the board agreed to carry

High severity
Governance, Risk and Compliance

Has your real exposure already crossed the line the board said it would never tolerate?

The board sets a clear risk appetite, the level of exposure the organisation is willing to carry. Then reality drifts past it. A new acquisition, a critical vendor, an unpatched estate or a shifting threat picture pushes exposure above the agreed limit, but without a continuous measure no one realises the line has been crossed until an incident or an audit makes it undeniable.

Potential impact
  • Real exposure exceeds the limit the board agreed to carry, without anyone noticing in time
  • Investment and prioritisation decisions are made against a stale or incomplete risk picture
  • Cyber insurance and capital assumptions no longer match the true level of exposure
  • A breach or audit reveals the organisation was operating outside its own stated appetite
What Athena sees

Athena continuously quantifies exposure through Cyber Risk Quantification, expressing it as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars, drawing on Third and Fourth Party Risk and Attack Surface Management. Cyber risk intelligence powered by Maxxsure, which Athena adopts to drive Themis, keeps that measure live so the moment exposure approaches or crosses the agreed appetite it is visible, not discovered later.

How Athena responds

Themis translates technical exposure into a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars, and Athena correlates the drivers behind the breach so leaders see exactly what pushed exposure over the line. Dashboards and Reporting surface the appetite breach to the board and link it to Cyber Insurance Readiness, while remediation is prioritised by the exposure that matters most, keeping humans firmly in the decision.

Business outcome

Athena turns risk appetite into a managed control: exposure is measured continuously as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars, the board sees a breach as it happens, and capital, insurance and remediation stay aligned with the risk the organisation chose to carry.

FunctionsCyber Risk QuantificationCyber Insurance ReadinessThird and Fourth Party RiskDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaThemis
Fraud and Abuse

Credential Stuffing

Reused passwords from breaches elsewhere become free keys to your customer accounts

High severity
Fraud and Abuse

How many of our customer logins are protected by a password already for sale somewhere else?

Automated tools replay millions of username and password pairs stolen from unrelated breaches against your login pages, betting that customers reuse credentials. A small percentage succeed, handing attackers working accounts they can drain, resell or use for fraud. Because every login is technically valid, it slips past controls that only look for invalid attempts.

Potential impact
  • Account takeover and fraudulent transactions on customer and loyalty accounts
  • Stolen funds, points and stored payment details that drive chargebacks and refunds
  • Login infrastructure overwhelmed by automated traffic, degrading service for real customers
  • Regulatory and reputational fallout once affected customers are notified
What Athena sees

Vigil, the 24/7 agentic SOC, watches authentication telemetry in the Security Data Lake and flags the signature of stuffing: a surge of logins from rotating addresses, high failure ratios against valid usernames, automation fingerprints and impossible velocity. Attack Surface Management confirms which login endpoints are exposed and unprotected.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the pattern into a single case rather than thousands of stray alerts, then moves to rate limit and challenge the abusive sources, force step up verification on at risk accounts and quarantine sessions that succeed under suspicious conditions. Athena orchestrates the response and keeps a human on the loop before any account is locked, while Incident and Case Management records the full timeline.

Business outcome

Takeover attempts are contained inside the window that matters, real customers keep logging in, and fraud losses are cut. Leaders get a clear account of what was tried, what got through and what was stopped.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementIncident and Case ManagementThreat IntelligenceDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigil
Cryptographic and Future Risk

Expired Certificate Outage

One forgotten certificate quietly expires and takes a revenue critical service offline

High severity
Cryptographic and Future Risk

Do we actually know every certificate we depend on, and which one expires next week?

Digital certificates underpin trusted connections across payment flows, APIs and internal services, and they all have an expiry date. When one lapses unnoticed, the systems that rely on it stop trusting each other and the service fails. This is a self inflicted outage that is entirely preventable yet remains one of the most common causes of unplanned downtime.

Potential impact
  • Sudden outage of a customer facing or revenue critical service
  • Broken integrations and API calls between internal and partner systems
  • Lost transactions and abandoned sessions during peak windows
  • Emergency out of hours response and rushed manual reissue
What Athena sees

Asset Intelligence maintains a live inventory of certificates discovered across the estate, including the forgotten and undocumented ones, with their issuers and expiry dates. Citadel, security technology management, tracks expiry as a managed control and raises early warning well before a certificate lapses, drawing on the Security Data Lake for full coverage.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates a renewal and validation workflow ahead of expiry, raising a prioritised case through Incident and Case Management and assigning the owner. Where automated reissue is possible it is staged for human approval, and Citadel verifies the new certificate is deployed and trusted before the old one lapses, closing the gap rather than reacting to the outage.

Business outcome

Expiry stops being a surprise. Certificates are renewed in advance on a managed schedule, avoidable downtime disappears, and leaders see a single view of certificate health and upcoming renewals across the business.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementIncident and Case ManagementDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data Lake
Defends withAthenaCitadel
Cyber Risk Quantification and Insurance

Vendor Risk Not Priced

Your biggest exposure may sit inside a supplier you have never measured in dollars

High severity
Cyber Risk Quantification and Insurance

If our most critical vendor were breached tomorrow, could we put a number on what it would cost us?

Modern operations depend on a web of vendors, and their vendors in turn. Most organisations track these relationships in spreadsheets and questionnaires, with no dollar value attached to the risk each one carries. When a critical supplier is compromised, the loss flows straight through to you, and leadership discovers the exposure was never priced or covered.

Potential impact
  • Supply chain compromise reaching your data through a trusted third party
  • Concentration risk where many critical services rely on one unseen fourth party
  • Business interruption and contractual liability you had not quantified
  • Insurance that does not match the real third party exposure
What Athena sees

Third and Fourth Party Risk maps the vendor ecosystem and surfaces hidden dependencies and concentration, while Threat Intelligence flags suppliers with active exposure. Cyber Risk Quantification, powered by Themis which adopts Maxxsure, converts each relationship into a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars, so the riskiest vendors are named, not buried.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates a prioritised remediation and review plan against the vendors that move the number most, routed through Incident and Case Management with owners assigned. Cyber Insurance Readiness compares the quantified third party exposure against current coverage and highlights the gap, giving risk and finance leaders a defensible basis to act, renegotiate or transfer.

Business outcome

Vendor risk moves from an unscored list to a priced, ranked portfolio. Leaders know which suppliers to fix first, what the exposure is worth in dollars, and whether insurance actually covers it.

FunctionsThird and Fourth Party RiskCyber Risk QuantificationCyber Insurance ReadinessThreat Intelligence
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaThemis
AI and Shadow AI

Training Data Poisoning

Corrupted training data can quietly teach your AI to make the wrong decision

High severity
AI and Shadow AI

Do we know where every model gets its training data, and whether anyone has tampered with it?

AI systems are only as trustworthy as the data they learn from. If an attacker can slip manipulated or mislabelled examples into a training or fine tuning set, the model absorbs a hidden flaw, producing biased outputs or a concealed backdoor that activates on a specific trigger. The damage is built into the model and surfaces in production, long after the data was poisoned.

Potential impact
  • Models that make systematically wrong or unsafe decisions in production
  • Hidden backdoor behaviour triggered by a specific crafted input
  • Compromised fraud, safety or clinical decisioning that erodes trust
  • Costly retraining and rollback once the poisoning is discovered
What Athena sees

Shadow AI Discovery inventories the models and data sources in use, including unsanctioned pipelines that feed training, and Asset Intelligence maps which datasets and feature stores supply which models. Drawing on the Security Data Lake, Athena flags unexpected changes to training data, unverified data provenance and anomalies in dataset composition before a model is promoted.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons about the affected pipeline and blast radius rather than a single alert, and Athena orchestrates containment: hold the suspect dataset, block promotion of the affected model and open a case through Incident and Case Management with a human on the loop. Compliance evidence is captured so the integrity of the training pipeline can be demonstrated and the clean state restored.

Business outcome

Poisoned data is caught before it reaches production, model decisions stay trustworthy, and the organisation can prove the provenance and integrity of what its AI learned from.

FunctionsShadow AI DiscoveryAsset IntelligenceComplianceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigil
AI and Shadow AI

Model Extraction

Attackers can clone the model you spent years building, one query at a time

High severity
AI and Shadow AI

Could a competitor quietly copy our proprietary model just by using our own API?

A proprietary model is valuable intellectual property. By sending large volumes of carefully chosen queries to an exposed model API and studying the responses, an attacker can reconstruct a close functional copy without ever touching the original. The theft looks like ordinary usage, so the model is effectively cloned before anyone notices the pattern.

Potential impact
  • Loss of proprietary model intellectual property and competitive advantage
  • A functional clone in the hands of competitors or fraudsters
  • Exposure of sensitive logic and decision boundaries
  • Downstream abuse of the cloned model to evade your own defences
What Athena sees

Attack Surface Management identifies exposed model endpoints, and Shadow AI Discovery maps which models are serving externally. Vigil, the 24/7 agentic SOC, watches query telemetry in the Security Data Lake for the signature of extraction: abnormal query volume, systematic probing of decision boundaries and patterns that look like sampling rather than genuine use.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the probing into one case and weighs intent and blast radius, then Athena orchestrates a graduated response: rate limit and throttle the abusive caller, require stronger authentication on the endpoint and flag the account for review, with a human on the loop before access is cut. Incident and Case Management preserves the evidence trail for legal and IP protection.

Business outcome

Systematic extraction is spotted while it is still in progress and throttled before a usable clone can be assembled. The organisation protects the model it invested in and keeps a defensible record of the attempt.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementShadow AI DiscoveryIncident and Case ManagementThreat Intelligence
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigil
AI and Shadow AI

Excessive Agent Autonomy

An AI agent with too much standing access can take a wrong action at machine speed

High severity
AI and Shadow AI

What is the worst thing our AI agents could do on their own before a human ever sees it?

As organisations deploy AI agents that act, not just advise, those agents accumulate permissions to touch systems, data and money. When an agent is over privileged, a manipulated instruction or a flawed decision can trigger real world actions at machine speed, moving funds, changing records or disabling controls, before any human is in the loop to stop it.

Potential impact
  • Unauthorised or erroneous actions executed automatically at scale
  • Manipulated agents misused through crafted instructions to act on attacker intent
  • Standing access that quietly exceeds what the task requires
  • Irreversible changes to data, money or controls before human review
What Athena sees

Shadow AI Discovery inventories the agents in operation and the actions they are entitled to take, and Asset Intelligence maps each agent to the systems and entitlements it touches. Athena, drawing on the Security Data Lake, flags agents with standing access beyond least privilege and behaviour that drifts outside an agent's intended scope.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates the response with humans firmly on the loop for anything irreversible: it can require approval before high impact actions, constrain an agent to least standing access through Citadel, and pause or isolate an agent that steps outside its mandate. Aegis reasons about the action's blast radius and Incident and Case Management records every autonomous decision for accountability.

Business outcome

Agents keep their useful autonomy while the irreversible actions stay gated behind human approval and least privilege. Leaders gain a clear inventory of what every agent can do and proof that nothing material happens unwatched.

FunctionsShadow AI DiscoveryAsset IntelligenceComplianceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data Lake
Defends withAthenaAegisCitadel
Cryptographic and Future Risk

Quantum Vulnerable Data

Encrypted data captured today can be decrypted the day a cryptographically relevant quantum computer arrives.

High severity
Cryptographic and Future Risk

How much of the data we encrypt today is being harvested now to be opened later?

An adversary copies encrypted traffic and stored archives now, while they cannot read them, and waits. When quantum computing matures enough to break today's public key cryptography, every long lived secret that was protected by it becomes readable. The data feels safe in the present, yet its confidentiality has an expiry date the organisation has never measured.

Potential impact
  • Long lived secrets such as health records, contracts and intellectual property lose confidentiality years after they were collected
  • Regulated data thought to be protected becomes exposed to retrospective disclosure
  • No clear inventory of which systems still rely on quantum vulnerable algorithms
  • Cyber insurance and audit questions on post quantum readiness cannot be answered with evidence
What Athena sees

Asset Intelligence and Attack Surface Management inventory where quantum vulnerable cryptography is still in use across systems, certificates and data stores, and Themis quantifies the exposure as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars tied to the data most at risk.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates a prioritised remediation plan, Citadel hardens the highest value systems first by migrating them toward post quantum ready algorithms, and the work is sequenced with a human on the loop so the most sensitive long lived data is protected before the rest.

Business outcome

The organisation moves from an unmeasured future risk to a costed, evidenced and prioritised migration, protecting its most sensitive data before the threat becomes real.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementCyber Risk QuantificationCompliance
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaCitadelThemis
Cryptographic and Future Risk

Crypto Agility Gap

When a cipher or certificate authority fails, organisations that cannot swap algorithms quickly are stranded.

High severity
Cryptographic and Future Risk

If an algorithm we depend on were broken tomorrow, how long would it take us to change it everywhere?

Encryption is wired deep into applications, devices and integrations, often with the algorithm hard coded and forgotten. When a cipher is weakened, a certificate authority is distrusted or a standard is retired, the organisation discovers it cannot change cryptography without breaking the systems that depend on it. The gap is not a breach. It is the inability to respond to one.

Potential impact
  • A weakened algorithm cannot be retired without outages across dependent systems
  • Certificate and trust changes take months instead of days, extending exposure
  • Embedded and legacy systems remain on broken cryptography long after a fix exists
  • Compliance deadlines for new cryptographic standards are missed
What Athena sees

Asset Intelligence maps where each cryptographic algorithm, certificate and key lives and what depends on it, Attack Surface Management flags brittle hard coded usage, and Themis expresses the agility gap as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars for the systems that cannot be changed quickly.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates a crypto agility programme, Citadel re engineers the highest risk systems toward configurable, swappable cryptography and centralised key management, and Compliance tracks progress against standards deadlines with a human on the loop approving each change.

Business outcome

The organisation gains the ability to change cryptography on demand, turning a future emergency into a routine, evidenced and auditable change.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementComplianceCyber Risk Quantification
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaCitadelThemis
Operational Resilience

Regional Cloud Failure

A single cloud region outage can halt the business if critical services share one point of failure.

High severity
Operational Resilience

If our primary cloud region went dark right now, what would still be running an hour later?

Modern operations concentrate in a handful of cloud regions, and convenience quietly becomes concentration risk. When a region degrades or fails, services that were assumed independent turn out to share the same foundation, and they fall together. The outage is not caused by an attacker, yet the business impact rivals a major incident, and recovery depends on resilience that was never tested.

Potential impact
  • Customer facing services and revenue flows stop during the outage window
  • Hidden single region dependencies cascade across systems thought to be separate
  • Failover that was assumed to work has never been exercised under real load
  • Regulatory and contractual availability commitments are breached
What Athena sees

Asset Intelligence and Attack Surface Management reveal where critical services and their dependencies concentrate in a single cloud region, Third and Fourth Party Risk exposes vendors that share that region, and Themis quantifies the concentration as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars for an outage.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates a resilience review, Vigil monitors availability and dependency health around the clock and raises a case the moment a region degrades, and Citadel drives the hardening of single points of failure toward tested multi region failover, with a human on the loop for architecture changes.

Business outcome

Concentration risk becomes visible and costed before an outage, and the organisation invests in resilience where the dollar exposure is greatest rather than everywhere at once.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementThird and Fourth Party RiskCyber Risk Quantification
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic Orchestration
Defends withAthenaVigilCitadelThemis
Operational Resilience

Disaster Recovery Failure

A recovery plan that has never been tested is a promise, not a capability.

High severity
Operational Resilience

When we finally need our recovery plan, will it actually bring us back, and how fast?

Backups exist, runbooks are written and a recovery time objective is on paper, yet the plan has never been fully exercised. When a real disruption strikes, the organisation discovers that backups are incomplete, dependencies were missed, credentials have expired or recovery takes far longer than promised. The failure is not the disaster itself, it is the recovery that does not work when it must.

Potential impact
  • Recovery takes far longer than the stated objective, extending downtime
  • Backups are found to be incomplete, corrupted or untested at the worst moment
  • Critical dependencies and credentials needed to recover are missing or stale
  • Stakeholders, regulators and insurers lose confidence in the organisation's resilience
What Athena sees

Asset Intelligence confirms which critical systems have current, tested recovery coverage and which do not, Incident and Case Management surfaces gaps between the documented recovery objective and reality, and Themis frames the recovery shortfall as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars for prolonged downtime.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates a recovery readiness programme, Vigil watches backup and recovery health continuously and opens a case when coverage drifts, and Citadel hardens the recovery estate and closes gaps in dependencies and credentials, with a human on the loop validating each tested restore.

Business outcome

Recovery moves from an untested promise to a proven, measured capability, so the organisation knows what it can recover, how fast and at what cost before a disruption tests it.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementCyber Risk QuantificationDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic Orchestration
Defends withAthenaVigilCitadelThemis
Supply Chain and Third Party

Container Registry Poisoning

A tampered base image in the registry ships malicious code into every service that builds on it.

Critical severity
Supply Chain and Third Party

Do we actually know that every image we deploy is the one we built and approved?

Container registries are the shelves the whole build supply chain pulls from. If an attacker poisons a base image or a widely used dependency in that registry, the compromise is inherited by every service that builds on it, automatically and at scale. The teams downstream trust the image because it came from the internal shelf, and the bad code spreads through normal, approved pipelines.

Potential impact
  • Malicious code propagates into many production services through trusted images
  • A single poisoned base image multiplies across teams and environments
  • Provenance and integrity of deployed images cannot be proven after the fact
  • Incident scope is hard to bound because the spread followed approved pipelines
What Athena sees

Asset Intelligence and Attack Surface Management map which images and registries feed production and how widely each is used, Threat Intelligence flags known tampering and malicious dependency signals, and Aegis correlates anomalous image changes, pulls and runtime behaviour into a single story rather than firing on one alert.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates the response, Aegis reasons about blast radius across every service built from the poisoned image, Vigil acts around the clock to quarantine affected images and pipelines and roll back to a known good build, and Citadel hardens the registry with signing, provenance and least privilege so the shelf cannot be poisoned again, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible.

Business outcome

A supply chain compromise is contained at the source rather than inherited across production, and the registry is hardened so trusted images stay trustworthy.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementThreat IntelligenceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Supply Chain and Third Party

Software Update Tampering

A trusted update channel that has been tampered with delivers compromise straight through the front door.

Critical severity
Supply Chain and Third Party

Every automatic update we accept is signed and trusted, but trusted by whom, and verified how?

Software updates are designed to be trusted and applied automatically. When an attacker tampers with a vendor's update or its delivery channel, the malicious version arrives wearing the vendor's signature and is installed across the estate by the very mechanism meant to keep it safe. The organisation does nothing wrong, it simply does what it always does, and the compromise is delivered through a channel it cannot easily question.

Potential impact
  • A tampered update installs across many systems through trusted automatic patching
  • The compromise arrives signed and trusted, bypassing normal suspicion
  • Fourth party update channels are exposed that the organisation never sees directly
  • Detection is delayed because the change came through an approved, expected process
What Athena sees

Third and Fourth Party Risk maps which vendors and update channels reach into the estate, Asset Intelligence shows what each update touches, Threat Intelligence flags known tampering signals, and Aegis correlates an unexpected update with anomalous post update behaviour into one story rather than firing on a single alert.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates the response, Aegis reasons about which systems received the suspect update and the blast radius, Vigil acts around the clock to halt the rollout, isolate affected systems and revert to a trusted version, and Citadel hardens update governance with verification and staged release, with a human on the loop for anything irreversible.

Business outcome

A trusted update channel is treated as a managed risk rather than blind trust, so a tampered update is caught and contained before it spreads through the estate.

FunctionsThird and Fourth Party RiskAsset IntelligenceThreat IntelligenceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationThreat IntelligenceSecurity Data Lake
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Data Protection

DNS Tunnelling Exfiltration

Sensitive data leaves the building hidden inside ordinary lookups

High severity
Data Protection

If our data left through a channel we never inspect, how long before we noticed?

Attackers smuggle stolen data out of the network by encoding it inside DNS queries, a protocol almost every organisation allows out by default and rarely inspects. The traffic looks like routine name resolution, so the theft can run quietly for weeks while sensitive records drain in small, patient pieces.

Potential impact
  • Slow, undetected loss of regulated customer and financial records
  • Theft that bypasses firewalls and data loss tools by hiding in allowed traffic
  • Breach disclosure obligations triggered long after the exfiltration began
  • Erosion of board confidence once the dwell time becomes clear
What Athena sees

Athena correlates DNS telemetry in the Security Data Lake against normal name resolution behaviour, surfacing the high query volumes, unusual record types and high entropy domains that betray an encoded channel. Threat Intelligence flags the destination infrastructure, and Asset Intelligence ties the chatty host back to the system and data it can reach.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons across the weak signals into one exfiltration story rather than firing on a single odd lookup, and Vigil contains it around the clock, isolating the host and cutting the covert channel inside the window that matters, with a human on the loop before anything irreversible. Citadel then hardens egress so the abused path is closed by design.

Business outcome

Quiet data theft becomes a managed control: the covert channel is found early, the loss is contained before it becomes a disclosure event, and egress is hardened so the same path cannot be reused.

FunctionsThreat IntelligenceAsset IntelligenceIncident and Case ManagementAttack Surface Management
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Fraud and Abuse

Synthetic Identity Abuse

Fabricated customers that pass every check and then default

High severity
Fraud and Abuse

How many of our accounts belong to people who never existed?

Fraudsters assemble identities that are part real and part fabricated, combining valid data fragments with invented details to create customers who pass onboarding and credit checks. These synthetic identities are cultivated over time, building trust and credit lines before being cashed out, leaving losses that look like ordinary defaults.

Potential impact
  • Direct financial loss from credit lines and accounts that were never going to be repaid
  • Fraud losses misclassified as normal credit defaults, hiding the true exposure
  • Regulatory scrutiny over know your customer and onboarding controls
  • Reserves and provisioning skewed by accounts that do not represent real people
What Athena sees

Athena builds an identity graph across the estate and uses Asset Intelligence to connect accounts that share devices, addresses, contact details or behavioural fingerprints. Anomaly patterns that a single onboarding check cannot see, such as clusters of accounts maturing on the same cadence, surface when the data is correlated in the Security Data Lake.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons across the linked accounts to separate genuine customers from a cultivated synthetic ring, weighing the whole pattern rather than one application. Vigil acts around the clock to hold suspect accounts and step up verification, with a human on the loop, while Themis, powered by Maxxsure, quantifies the exposure as a probable maximum loss in dollars so leaders can size the reserve and the response.

Business outcome

Fabricated customers are surfaced before the cash out, fraud losses stop hiding inside default rates, and the board sees the exposure as a clear, defensible number rather than a surprise on the balance sheet.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceCyber Risk QuantificationThreat IntelligenceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilThemis
Fraud and Abuse

Loyalty Program Abuse

Points, perks and rewards quietly drained at scale

Medium severity
Fraud and Abuse

Is our rewards programme a customer asset, or an open till for fraud?

Loyalty and rewards balances behave like currency, and attackers treat them that way. Through credential stuffing, account takeover and automated point harvesting, they drain balances, exploit promotion logic and resell perks, turning a customer loyalty asset into a liability that erodes margin and trust.

Potential impact
  • Direct loss of rewards liability paid out to fraudulent accounts
  • Customer trust damaged when genuine members find balances stolen
  • Margin erosion from abused promotions and resold perks
  • Support and remediation costs as complaints surge
What Athena sees

Athena watches member accounts as part of one identity and behaviour picture, and Threat Intelligence flags the credential stuffing infrastructure and automation hitting the programme. Asset Intelligence ties the loyalty platform and its exposed endpoints into the wider estate, while the Security Data Lake reveals the redemption and login patterns that no single login check would catch.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the surge of logins, redemptions and promotion abuse into a single account takeover and harvesting story, reasoning about which accounts are genuinely the member. Vigil responds around the clock to step up authentication, freeze suspect redemptions and throttle the automation inside the window that matters, with a human on the loop, while Citadel hardens the programme endpoints and rate limits so the path is harder to abuse.

Business outcome

The rewards programme stays a customer asset rather than an open till: balances are protected, abused promotions are shut down quickly, and genuine members keep the value and trust the programme was built to earn.

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

Application Layer Bot Flood

A wave of synthetic traffic that looks human and starves real customers

High severity
Operational Resilience

When the flood looks like our customers, can we still serve the real ones?

Instead of brute volume, attackers send a flood of requests crafted to mimic real users, targeting the expensive parts of an application such as search, login and checkout. The traffic passes basic filters, exhausts capacity and starves genuine customers, degrading availability and revenue without an obvious outage.

Potential impact
  • Degraded availability and slow response during peak revenue windows
  • Lost transactions and abandoned checkouts as real customers are crowded out
  • Inflated infrastructure cost as capacity scales to absorb fake demand
  • Service level commitments to customers and partners put at risk
What Athena sees

Athena uses Attack Surface Management to know which application endpoints are exposed and most expensive to serve, and the Security Data Lake reveals the behavioural fingerprints that separate synthetic request patterns from genuine human sessions. Threat Intelligence flags the source infrastructure driving the flood as it forms.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the request timing, fingerprints and endpoint pressure into one resource exhaustion story, distinguishing the bot flood from a genuine demand spike. Vigil responds around the clock to throttle, challenge and shed the synthetic traffic at the application layer inside the window that matters, with a human on the loop, while Citadel hardens the exposed endpoints and capacity controls so the next flood meets a smaller, tougher surface.

Business outcome

Real customers keep being served through the flood: availability holds during peak windows, capacity spend is not wasted absorbing fake demand, and the exposed application surface is hardened against the next wave.

FunctionsAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceThreat IntelligenceDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
OT, IoT and Cyber Physical

SCADA Manipulation

Industrial control commands altered while operators see normal

Critical severity
OT, IoT and Cyber Physical

If our control systems were lying to the operators, would we know in time?

Attackers reach the supervisory control systems that run physical processes and quietly alter commands or the readings operators rely on, so the plant behaves abnormally while the screens still look normal. The gap between physical reality and what the control room sees is where safety, output and reputation are put at risk.

Potential impact
  • Disruption or damage to physical processes and production output
  • Safety risk to personnel, the public and the surrounding environment
  • Regulatory and reporting obligations triggered by an operational incident
  • Extended downtime while integrity of control systems is re established
What Athena sees

Athena extends Asset Intelligence into the operational environment so it knows the control systems, their normal command patterns and where information technology meets operational technology. The Security Data Lake correlates control traffic against expected process behaviour to surface commands and readings that do not match physical reality, with Threat Intelligence flagging known intrusion paths into the control layer.

How Athena responds

Aegis reasons across the mismatched commands, sensor values and access events into one manipulation story rather than dismissing a single odd reading. Vigil responds around the clock to alert operators, isolate the affected segment and protect the control path inside the window that matters, with a human firmly on the loop given the physical stakes, while Citadel hardens the boundary between the corporate network and the control environment so the path in is far narrower.

Business outcome

Operators can trust their screens again: manipulation is caught before it harms the process or people, the control environment is contained and restored, and the boundary into operations is hardened against the next attempt.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementThreat IntelligenceIncident and Case Management
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
OT, IoT and Cyber Physical

Building System Compromise

Access, power and climate systems as an overlooked way in

High severity
OT, IoT and Cyber Physical

Do we even know which of our building systems are connected to the network?

Building management systems such as access control, heating and cooling, power and surveillance are increasingly networked yet rarely inventoried or hardened like core IT. Attackers use them as an overlooked foothold to enter the wider network, or disrupt them directly to affect physical access, comfort, uptime and safety of a facility.

Potential impact
  • A foothold into the corporate network through an overlooked connected device
  • Disruption to physical access, power, climate or surveillance in a facility
  • Safety and continuity risk for occupants, data centres and critical sites
  • Compliance gaps where connected building assets sit outside the security programme
What Athena sees

Athena uses Asset Intelligence and Attack Surface Management to discover the connected building systems that traditional inventories miss, and to map which of them are exposed or able to reach the corporate network. The Security Data Lake surfaces unexpected communication from these devices, and Threat Intelligence flags the known weaknesses and access paths attackers use to reach them.

How Athena responds

Aegis correlates the unusual building system activity and any pivot toward corporate assets into one intrusion story rather than treating a facilities device as harmless. Vigil responds around the clock to isolate the compromised system and cut the pivot path inside the window that matters, with a human on the loop, while Citadel brings the building systems into the security programme, segments them from core IT and hardens their configuration so they stop being a quiet way in.

Business outcome

Connected building systems move from blind spot to managed asset: the overlooked foothold is closed, facility disruption is contained, and the estate is segmented and hardened so operational technology no longer opens a door into the network.

FunctionsAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementShadow AI DiscoveryIncident and Case Management
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaAegisVigilCitadel
Cyber Risk Quantification and Insurance

Portfolio Risk Concentration

One shared dependency can sink a dozen positions at once

High severity
Cyber Risk Quantification and Insurance

If one vendor or control failed tomorrow, how many of our most valuable assets fall with it?

Risk rarely arrives evenly. Across the estate, dozens of critical systems quietly lean on the same handful of identities, vendors and platforms, so a single failure point carries far more loss than any one line item suggests. Leadership sees a long list of risks but not where they pile up, which means capital and attention are spread thin while the real concentration sits unfunded.

Potential impact
  • A single shared dependency failing takes down many critical systems at once rather than one
  • Capital and remediation budget spread evenly across risks that are not equal
  • The board approves a risk appetite it cannot actually see the shape of
  • Insurance and reserves sized to scattered risks miss the concentrated tail
What Athena sees

Themis, Athena's cyber risk intelligence powered by Maxxsure, expresses the whole estate as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars, then surfaces where that loss clusters. Asset Intelligence and Attack Surface Management map which systems share the same identities, vendors and controls, so Cyber Risk Quantification can show concentration rather than a flat list.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates the picture into a single ranked view of where loss concentrates and hands leadership the few moves that reduce the most exposure, with humans approving how capital is steered. Themis re-scores continuously as the estate changes, so the concentration view stays current instead of going stale between annual reviews.

Business outcome

Leadership funds the small number of fixes that shrink the largest share of probable loss, and the board signs a risk appetite it can actually see.

FunctionsCyber Risk QuantificationAsset IntelligenceAttack Surface ManagementDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaThemis
Cyber Risk Quantification and Insurance

Renewal Evidence Failure

The cover is there, the proof is not, and the premium pays the difference

High severity
Cyber Risk Quantification and Insurance

When the insurer asks us to prove our controls at renewal, can we, in time, without a fire drill?

Cyber cover increasingly depends on evidence, not assurances. At renewal the insurer asks the organisation to prove that the controls it attested to are actually in place and working, and the proof is scattered across teams and tools that were never built to assemble it. The result is a scramble, a worse rate, narrowed cover, or a declined application, even when the controls themselves are sound.

Potential impact
  • A higher premium or narrowed cover priced on missing evidence rather than real posture
  • An application declined or delayed because attestations cannot be substantiated
  • A claim later disputed because the attested control was not provably in place
  • Weeks of senior time lost assembling evidence by hand at renewal
What Athena sees

Cyber Insurance Readiness and Compliance keep a continuous, evidence backed record of which attested controls are actually in place across the estate, so a renewal questionnaire maps to live proof rather than memory. Themis, powered by Maxxsure, translates posture into a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars that an underwriter and a CFO read the same way.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates the renewal pack, assembling current control evidence and the quantified risk view continuously so it is ready before the insurer asks, with humans reviewing and signing off what goes to the broker. Themis re-scores as controls change, so attestations stay honest and the same record supports a claim if one is ever made.

Business outcome

The organisation walks into renewal with provable controls and a quantified risk story, earning better terms on evidence rather than paying a premium for doubt.

FunctionsCyber Insurance ReadinessCyber Risk QuantificationComplianceDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaThemis
Governance, Risk and Compliance

Regulatory Breach Exposure

The clock starts before you know what happened

Critical severity
Governance, Risk and Compliance

If we were breached today, could we prove what was hit and notify the regulator inside the window?

Modern breach rules judge an organisation as much on its response as on the incident itself. Regimes like DORA, GDPR and sector reporting duties demand fast, accurate disclosure of what was affected, yet most teams cannot answer that question in hours because the facts live in scattered logs and untracked assets. A defensible incident can still become a regulatory and reputational failure simply because the organisation could not show its work in time.

Potential impact
  • A missed or late notification turning a contained incident into a regulatory finding
  • Penalties and supervisory attention driven by the response, not just the breach
  • An inaccurate first disclosure that has to be corrected publicly later
  • Legal and executive time consumed reconstructing events under a deadline
What Athena sees

Vigil watches the estate around the clock and Aegis triages and contains, while Incident and Case Management builds the timeline of what was touched as events unfold, so the affected scope is known in hours rather than reconstructed in weeks. Asset Intelligence and Compliance link affected systems to the data and obligations they carry, so the notification picture forms with the incident.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates detection, containment and case building together, assembling a defensible record of what happened and what was affected so the organisation can meet its reporting window, with humans deciding and approving every disclosure. Aegis contains within the authority leadership sets, and every action stays reversible and logged so containing fast never breaks the audit trail.

Business outcome

The organisation meets its notification duties with an accurate, evidence backed account, so a contained incident stays an incident rather than a regulatory failure.

FunctionsComplianceIncident and Case ManagementAsset IntelligenceDashboards and Reporting
FoundationsAgentic OrchestrationSecurity Data LakeThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaVigilAegis
Governance, Risk and Compliance

Policy Exception Sprawl

Every temporary exception that never expired is now permanent risk

High severity
Governance, Risk and Compliance

How many one time exceptions are still live, and which of them is the next incident?

Security policy bends to keep the business moving, and that is healthy until the bends never straighten. Temporary exceptions, standing waivers and risk acceptances pile up across teams, each reasonable on the day it was granted, none of them tracked to expiry. Over time the real control environment drifts far from the policy on paper, and nobody owns the gap until an auditor or an attacker finds it first.

Potential impact
  • Expired exceptions still live, quietly disabling the controls the policy assumes
  • Audit findings and failed attestations from a control state that drifted from policy
  • An incident traced back to a waiver that should have closed months ago
  • No single owner accountable for the accumulated exceptions
What Athena sees

Citadel manages and hardens the security technology estate and Attack Surface Management watches configuration, so where the live control state drifts from policy is visible rather than assumed. Compliance ties each exception to the control and obligation it touches, and Themis, powered by Maxxsure, prices the accumulated drift as a board legible score and a probable maximum loss in dollars.

How Athena responds

Athena orchestrates a live register of every active exception, what it weakens and when it should expire, and surfaces the ones carrying the most risk, with humans deciding what to renew, tighten or close. Citadel re-hardens as exceptions are retired, so the gap between policy and reality narrows continuously instead of widening unseen.

Business outcome

Leadership sees the full exception backlog priced by risk and closes the dangerous ones first, so real posture and stated policy converge again.

FunctionsComplianceAttack Surface ManagementAsset IntelligenceCyber Risk Quantification
FoundationsSecurity Data LakeAgentic OrchestrationThreat Intelligence
Defends withAthenaCitadelThemis