Why we built Artemion.
Boards ask one question after a breach: what would it have cost? For identity, no tool could answer. Detection shows you the fire, governance shows you who has access, GRC shows you whether you passed the audit, but none of them put a number on the exposure.
There is no GAAP for identity risk, so we built it. Artemion created Identity Risk Quantification: the discipline of turning the blast radius of every identity into a defensible dollar figure a CISO and a board both understand. We run AIRE against our own infrastructure before any client sees it, aligned to NIST 800-53 and on a FedRAMP pathway.
“Identity is where breaches actually start, and it is the one part of the estate nobody can price. I want to change that. Give a CISO a dollar figure instead of a severity color and the conversation stops being a plea for budget and becomes a business decision. That is the industry I want to hand back to the people running it.”
Security spent twenty years getting better at detection and no time at all learning to price what it found.
The estate stopped being servers and became logins, keys, service accounts, and now AI agents that authenticate on their own. The controls moved. The math never did.
High, medium, and low cannot be compared to a budget, an insurance premium, or a board's appetite. Every other risk function in the enterprise reports in dollars. Security reports in colors.
The moment exposure carries a figure and a name, it stops being the security team's problem to argue and becomes the organization's problem to close. That is the whole thesis.
Cybersecurity is drowning in noise and fear. We would rather be clear, and occasionally fun.
Nobody makes a good decision while being frightened. We hand you a figure you can budget against and leave the theatrics to the conference keynotes.
Your team does not need another dashboard to triage. It needs the single line that tells the business what is actually at stake, and who owns it.
We explain the math in language a board member follows on the first pass, then show the working so your engineers can take it apart.
Put a dollar figure on your identity risk.
Begin with a scoped, read-only risk assessment, or pressure-test your response with a tabletop exercise.