Forrester has named CYE as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™ Cyber Risk Quantification, Q2, 2025. This is the first time that CYE has been evaluated in this prestigious report – and being named a Strong Performer on our first inclusion highlights CYE’s rapid growth in this space.
“Organizations looking to enhance their security assessments and program maturity with CRQ-led continuous exposure management should consider CYE.” – The Forrester Wave™: Cyber Risk Quantification, Q2, 2025
Being named a Strong Performer reinforces our commitment to helping organizations make smarter, risk-informed decisions by quantifying cyber exposure in clear, financial terms. And we are happy to be recognized for what we believe sets CYE apart from other solutions: CRQ is at the core of our exposure management platform, Hyver.
How Cyber Risk Quantification Has Evolved
Over the past decade, cyber risk quantification (CRQ) has evolved significantly as organizations have shifted from viewing cybersecurity as a purely technical issue to recognizing it as a core business risk. Traditionally, cyber risk was measured in vague, qualitative terms that offered little practical insight for decision-makers. This approach made it difficult to prioritize investments, communicate effectively with executives and boards, or justify the cost of security initiatives. As cyber threats grew more frequent and severe, this lack of clarity became a serious obstacle to effective risk management.
Consequently, CRQ has matured into a more data-driven, financially grounded discipline. Leveraging models from actuarial science, threat intelligence, incident history, and economic impact analysis, organizations can now estimate potential losses in concrete financial terms. This change enables leaders to compare cyber risk with other enterprise risks and to make informed, cost-effective decisions about security investments, insurance coverage, and incident response planning. Regulatory pressures, rising cyber insurance premiums, and increased board-level scrutiny have also accelerated this evolution, making quantifiable risk assessment a strategic necessity rather than a luxury.
Moreover, cyber risk quantification also enables cross-functional collaboration between security, finance, legal, and executive teams. It aligns technical security metrics with business impact, helping companies speak a common language around risk and resilience and making cyber risk management more transparent and effective.
Going Beyond Traditional Exposure Management
Integrating CRQ into exposure management brings a powerful layer of context and precision to how organizations understand and address cyber vulnerabilities. Traditional exposure management often focuses on identifying and remediating technical weaknesses, such as unpatched systems or misconfigured assets. While important, this approach can lead to a long list of issues without clear guidance on which ones truly matter to the business. CRQ helps bridge that gap by assigning financial value to cyber risks, allowing organizations to prioritize exposures based not just on severity scores, but on potential business impact.
By translating technical risk into financial terms, CRQ enables more informed decision-making around remediation, investment, and resource allocation. For example, two vulnerabilities may seem equally critical from a technical standpoint, but CRQ can reveal that one poses significantly higher financial risk due to its proximity to sensitive systems or customer data. This allows security teams to focus efforts where they will have the greatest return on risk reduction. It also enhances communication with executive leadership by framing cybersecurity decisions in a language that resonates with business priorities.
Ultimately, CRQ adds strategic clarity to exposure management. It transforms what is often a reactive, checklist-driven process into a business-aligned risk management practice. By combining visibility into exposures with quantifiable insight into their potential consequences, organizations can reduce uncertainty, defend budgets, and build a more resilient cybersecurity program.
How CYE Can Help
With CRQ at its core, CYE’s exposure management platform, Hyver, quantifies exposure in financial terms, visualizes the most exploitable attack routes to critical business assets, creates optimal mitigation plans tailored to each business, and improves cybersecurity maturity.
“CYE provides superior risk mitigation and remediation planning, which demonstrates CRQ’s power to turn insights into action.” – The Forrester Wave™: Cyber Risk Quantification, Q2, 2025
With Hyver, you can:
- Gain clarity on the financial impact of a breach that can affect your reputation and business continuity, including the cost of IP loss and PII of your customers and employees.
- Generate reports for the board that focus on organizational risk exposure, your cybersecurity program, and how you compare to industry peers.
- Determine the chokepoints in your attack surface by considering the threats that are most likely to be exploited.
- Tailor your mitigation strategy and operational remediation plans to your organization, along with required resources and team effort.
Want to learn more about how Hyver quantifies your threat exposure? Contact us.
