Custom Control Frameworks
One control set built to order for your organization. We merge every standard you answer to, across the U.S., Europe, Asia and international schemes, remove the duplicate controls and rank what is left by real risk.
Patent-pending AI control prioritization
Stop guessing.
Fix what matters first.
Cyber Priority AI is a cybersecurity advisory and managed services firm. We assess your AI and security risk, build the control framework that fits your organization, rank every control by real risk reduction, and stay until the fixes are done.
Now prioritizing: AI risk
NIST CSF 2.0NIST SP 800-171CMMC 2.0HIPAAHITRUSTCIS ControlsNIST SP 800-53ISO/IEC 27001PCI DSSNIST AI RMFPost-Quantum CryptographyZero TrustISO/IEC 42001EU AI ActOWASP Top 10 for LLM AppsMITRE ATLASFedRAMP
0years in cybersecurity, from penetration testing to the CISO chair of a $2 billion U.S. company
0service lines covering advisory, testing, engineering and managed operations
0patent-pending engine that ranks controls by measured risk reduction
0+client organizations served, from insurers and government agencies to financial institutions and universities
What we do
Twelve ways we reduce your risk
Engage us for a single assessment or an ongoing managed service. Every engagement ends with a ranked, evidence-backed list of what to do next.
Control Prioritization
Our adaptive engine scores each control against your threats, assets and current maturity, then re-ranks as conditions change. You get a defensible order of work and the budget case to go with it.
Patent pendingAI Security Assessments
Know where AI is in use, what it can reach and how it could fail. We assess generative and agentic AI against NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications, then rank the fixes.
Proprietary maturity toolPenetration Testing
Network, web application, API and cloud testing using the leading commercial tool suites, with manual validation by a tester who has done this for more than 20 years. Findings arrive ranked, reproducible and retested after you fix them.
Identity & Access Management
Identity governance, privileged access, single sign-on and multi-factor design, plus control of the machine and AI-agent identities that now outnumber your people. Strategy, tool selection and operations.
Quantum Readiness
Data stolen today can be decrypted once quantum computers mature. We inventory your cryptography, rank the exposure and build a migration roadmap to the NIST post-quantum standards.
Application Security
Threat modeling, secure development lifecycle design, code and dependency scanning, and guardrails for AI-generated code. Security that ships with the release instead of blocking it.
Vulnerability Remediation
Scanners find thousands of issues. We close them. Risk-ranked remediation queues, fix plans your IT team can execute, and verification that each fix held.
Managed Security Services
Ongoing virtual CISO leadership, compliance program operation, continuous control monitoring and managed remediation for teams that need senior expertise without a full-time hire.
Vulnerability Management
Build or fix the whole program, not just the scan. Asset coverage, risk-based prioritization of known-exploited flaws, patch orchestration, service levels and KPI and KRI reporting that holds owners to account.
Cybersecurity Research
Evidence-based answers to hard questions: breach and threat analysis, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, control effectiveness studies and briefings for boards and regulators, from an IEEE-published researcher.
AI Implementation Expertise
Put AI to work safely. We design and deploy AI use cases that automate security work, such as access reviews, code review, threat intelligence and SOC analytics, with the governance and controls built in from day one.
AI security assessments
Adopt AI with your eyes open
AI is entering your business faster than your controls can follow. Our assessment shows where models, copilots and agents are in use, what data and systems they can reach, and which gaps to close first.
- Scored, not guessed. Our proprietary AI Maturity Assessment tool rates each domain on a five-level scale.
- Benchmarked. Results map to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and the rules that govern your sector.
- Actionable. You leave with a current-state score, a target state and a ranked roadmap between them.
Current stateTarget state
Overall 0.0 / 5
Simulated scores shown for illustration. Your assessment is built from interviews, evidence and testing in your own environment.
Governance and accountabilityPolicies, ownership, an inventory of every AI use case and a clear approval path, including the tools staff adopted on their own.
Data and privacy protectionWhich sensitive data reaches models, prompts and logs, and how that flow is controlled and monitored.
Model and pipeline securitySupply chain, training-data integrity, access to models and the security of how they are deployed.
Agentic AI and machine identitiesWhat agents can do on their own, with which credentials, and where a person must approve.
Adversarial testingPrompt injection, jailbreak and data-leak testing against your AI applications before an attacker tries it.
Regulatory readinessAlignment to NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act and sector rules such as HIPAA.
How an assessment runs
A non-intrusive review built on interviews, configuration walkthroughs and evidence. No production testing is required to get started.
Scope both realms
The AI you build, such as models, applications and agents, and the AI your workforce uses, such as copilots, chat tools and low-code builders.
Gather evidence
Stakeholder sessions, platform walkthroughs and questionnaires, with every statement tagged as confirmed, claimed or unconfirmed.
Rate and credit
Findings rated Critical, High or Medium against recognized frameworks. Controls that already work are credited alongside the gaps.
Build the roadmap
A target-state control matrix and a phased plan that separates quick configuration fixes from new investment.
What you receive: a rated findings register with stable IDs · a regulatory exposure map · a list of effective controls to keep · a target-state control matrix · a phased remediation roadmap · an executive briefing for leadership and the board.
AI security workshops
Half-day and full-day working sessions for security, technology and business leaders. Each one ends with decisions and owners, not only slides.
Agentic AI in security operationsWhere AI agents can take on bounded, evidenced work in the SOC today, and how to keep the defending agent under the same controls as any other.
Autonomy by risk tierA reference pattern for deciding what an agent may do alone, what needs a person to approve, and what evidence each action must leave.
Machine and non-human identitiesService accounts, keys, certificates and workloads already outnumber people. Agents add delegated, changing authority on top.
Zero trust for AI agentsMoving from least privilege to least agency: the enforcement points every assistant, API, agent and model call should pass through.
Securing agent protocols and toolsControls for the connections that let agents reach data and act, including tool servers and agent-to-agent traffic.
AI literacy and secure AI developmentWhat every team should know about AI risk, and how to build security into each stage of the AI development lifecycle.
The engine
A security roadmap that re-ranks itself
Most roadmaps are out of date the week they are approved. Our patent-pending approach treats prioritization as a closed loop: it learns from new threats and from the results of the work you have already done.
IngestScorePrioritizeMeasureAdapt
- Spend where it counts. Each control carries a score you can defend to a board or an auditor.
- Stay current. Rankings shift when the threat landscape or your environment does.
- Prove progress. Completed work feeds back in, so you see risk fall over time.
New signalCalibrating against your environment
Simulated data shown for illustration. Rankings in a real engagement are built from your own environment.
The deliverable
The Threat-Informed Prioritization Report
We study how organizations like yours were actually breached, weigh that evidence by how recent it is, and turn it into a ranked list of the controls and automations that would have stopped it.
- Starts without access to your systems. The first report is built from public evidence about your sector, peers and suppliers.
- Recent attacks count for more. Time decay keeps last quarter's campaign from being outvoted by a decade-old headline.
- Every rank is auditable. Weights, sources and confidence tags are published in the report, so the result stands up to a board or a regulator.
- Built to be repeated. Measured outcomes feed the next cycle, so priorities follow the threat.
0%weight after 1 year
0%after 2 years
0%after 5 years
S(t) = S₀ · e−λt with half-life = ln 2 / λ
Move the slider: fast-changing evidence gets a short half-life, lasting attacker behavior a long one.
What is inside the report
Nine parts, each traceable to its evidence.
Peer incident registerPublicly reported breaches at your peers, clients and suppliers, each with a stable ID, a source and a confidence tag.
Time-decayed technique rankingAttacker techniques mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and scored so that recent, severe incidents weigh most.
Sensitivity testingThe ranking is re-run at shorter and longer half-lives to show which findings hold under every assumption.
Attack chains and break-pointsThe step-by-step paths attackers used, with the cheapest place to break each one.
Attack surface to validate firstThe specific platforms, portals and data channels to check, each tied to a real precedent.
Credit for what worksControls you already have are recognized, so the plan builds on your investment instead of repeating it.
Regulatory overlayWhich rules a single incident would trigger at once, and how that changes the order of work.
Top 20 controls and top 20 automationsRanked with a published weighting model and mapped to NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Controls v8.1 and ISO/IEC 27001.
30, 60 and 90-day roadmapA sequenced plan that front-loads the cheapest fixes, with exit evidence for each stage and the measures that trigger re-prioritization.
From historic breaches to your top controls and automations
The report answers two questions with evidence: which controls would have stopped the breaches in your sector, and which of them can be automated first.
Collect
Two tiers of evidence: a register of documented breaches at organizations like yours, and industry-wide breach statistics to calibrate it.
Map
Every incident is broken into the attacker techniques it used, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, and weighted by severity and age.
Rank
Controls and automations are scored on six published criteria: likelihood, impact, control effectiveness, asset criticality, regulation and cost.
Re-rank
Each cycle measures results against targets and re-runs the ranking. A change log shows what moved and why.
Top controls Example output
- Phishing-resistant sign-in on all remote accessCounters stolen and replayed credentials, the most common way in.
- Risk-based vulnerability managementCounters exploitation of internet-facing flaws by fixing known-exploited issues first.
- Hardened help-desk identity checksCounters callers who impersonate staff to reset passwords and sign-in factors.
- Continuous supplier monitoringCounters breaches that arrive through vendors and connected partners.
- Immutable, tested backupsCounters ransomware by proving that recovery works before it is needed.
Top automation use cases Example output
- Sign-in policy drift detectionAlerts when an account or exclusion slips outside strong authentication.
- Threat-fed vulnerability scoringRe-ranks the fix queue as exploitation evidence changes.
- Help-desk identity-proofing workflowEnforces callback and verification steps so no reset relies on one person's judgment.
- Endpoint auto-containmentIsolates a device when early signs of ransomware or data theft appear.
- Identity threat responseRevokes sessions automatically on suspicious sign-in or re-enrollment activity.
Every report ranks a top 20 of each, mapped to NIST CSF 2.0, CIS Controls v8.1 and ISO/IEC 27001, with a 30, 60 and 90-day roadmap. Also included: a per-incident technique map · measurable targets for each priority · a decay audit table so every score can be reproduced · a validation record of the sources checked. The lists shown here are examples; your ranking depends on the breach history of your own sector.
Request a report for your sectorOur prioritization method is U.S. patent pending.
Custom control frameworks
A control framework that scores itself
Our Control Framework and Assessment Engine turns a compliance standard into a working tool. The version shown here is built for CMMC and NIST SP 800-171, the standard that universities and research institutions must meet to keep federal research funding.
- One input drives everything. A control owner enters a 0 to 5 maturity score per requirement. Status, score and dashboard are all calculated.
- Priorities come from the scoring rules. Each unmet requirement carries its official point weight, so the costliest gaps rise to the top.
- Yours to keep. Delivered as a workbook your team runs, with a user guide for every role and no dependency on us.
CurrentProjected
Assessment score 0 / 110
Simulated scores shown for illustration. Maturity by control family on a five-level scale; the projected view shows the result once the planned fixes are complete.
How the prioritization works
Four steps, repeated every assessment cycle.
Score
Owners answer yes or no to each assessment objective, then score the requirement from 0 to 5. The objectives-met percentage shows whether the score is honest.
Status
Formulas derive Met, Not Met or Unassessed for every requirement. Work in progress counts as Not Met, exactly as an assessor would treat it.
Weigh
Each unmet requirement subtracts its official weight of 1, 3 or 5 points, with the partial-credit rules built in, giving a current and a projected score.
Prioritize
The dashboard shows points at stake and points lost by control family. The comments on each gap become the prioritized remediation plan.
0security requirements, each with a stable ID, a named owner and an evidence pointer
0assessment objectives turned into questions with examine, interview and test guidance
0live formulas. Results are calculated, never typed
0dashboard indicators, with maturity charted by control family
Mapped once, reused everywhereEvery requirement is cross-mapped to CMMC Levels 1 and 2, FAR 52.204-21, HITRUST CSF, CIS Controls v8.1 and NIST SP 800-53, with the SP 800-172 enhanced set for Level 3 readiness.
Official scoring built inThe Department of Defense scoring method is implemented in the formulas, so the number you see is the number you would report.
The plan writes itselfEach unmet requirement records what is missing, who owns it and the target date. That list is your action plan and milestones.
Evidence-grade disciplineReference data is traced to a named source, inputs are confined to marked cells, and each scoring session is saved as its own version.
A guide for every roleOne page each for the steering committee, program manager, control owners, internal audit, researchers and security architecture.
Scoping and regulation includedAsset scoping rules, a regulatory register and a log of source gaps and corrections keep the framework current as standards change.
Built to order
One framework for every rule you answer to
Most organizations answer to several standards that ask for the same thing in different words. We build a single customized control framework that says it once.
- Duplicate controls removed. Overlapping requirements are merged into one control, so you implement once and test once for every standard it satisfies.
- Controls prioritized. Each control is ranked by the threats facing your sector and by its regulatory weight, using our patent-pending method.
- Regions built in. A common core plus overlays for the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and international standards, so each office sees only what applies to it.
- Tailored to you. Your own policies, owners, data classes and system criticality are written into the framework.
Select the standards you answer to:
Requirements across the selected standards0
Unique controls after de-duplication0
Simulated counts shown for illustration. Actual overlap depends on the standards and versions in your scope.
Standards we build into a framework
A common core, with regional overlays added only where you operate.
United StatesFederal, state and sector rulesNIST CSF 2.0, SP 800-53 and SP 800-171, CMMC, FedRAMP, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, NYDFS and state privacy laws.
EuropeEU and UK regulationGDPR, NIS2, DORA, the EU AI Act and UK data protection and cyber requirements.
Asia-PacificNational privacy and cyber rulesSingapore PDPA and MAS guidelines, Japan APPI, India's DPDP Act, Australia's Privacy Act and Essential Eight, and China's PIPL.
InternationalGlobal standardsISO/IEC 27001, 27701 and 42001, CIS Controls, PCI DSS and the SWIFT customer security framework.
Test once, comply manyEach merged control lists every requirement it satisfies, so one piece of evidence answers several auditors.
Right-sized baselinesBasic and enhanced control sets are assigned by data sensitivity and system criticality, so effort goes where the risk is.
Compliance and maturity dashboardsLive views of compliance by control function and maturity by domain, ready for leadership and the board.
Ask for a framework demoThe same method adapts to HIPAA, HITRUST and other standards your organization answers to.
Live demo and 30-day pilot available
VM Remediation: fix it safely, and prove it
Our human-approved, AI-assisted vulnerability remediation console takes a finding from the scanner to signed audit evidence, across servers, virtual machines, containers and cloud, on the tools you already run.
0tracked product features
0compliance framework profiles and evidence packs
0+ways to reach servers, devices, clouds, identities and code
0+automated tests run on every release and at install
0%
lower annual remediation cost in our illustrative model, comparing in-house manual remediation with the managed service for a 100-server organization.*
The remediation gap is where breaches start
Attackers move in days. Most organizations still patch in weeks.
20%of breaches began with an exploited vulnerability, up 34% in a yearVerizon DBIR 2025
32 daysmedian time to fully fix exploited edge-device and VPN flaws; only 54% were fully fixedVerizon DBIR 2025
5 daysaverage time from disclosure to exploitationGoogle Mandiant, 2024
$10.22Maverage cost of a U.S. breach, with 241 days to identify and containIBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025
Ready for the wave of AI-discovered vulnerabilities
Frontier AI models now find software flaws faster than anyone can fix them. Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, used under its Project Glasswing program, has shown the scale of the problem.
10,000+high or critical vulnerabilities found in critical software in the program's first monthAnthropic, 22 May 2026
23,019vulnerabilities estimated across more than 1,000 open-source projects, 6,202 of them high or criticalAnthropic, 22 May 2026
271vulnerabilities found and fixed in a single release of one major web browserAnthropic, 22 May 2026
Patchingis the bottleneck. Anthropic reports that verifying and fixing flaws, not finding them, now limits progressAnthropic, 22 May 2026
Find your exposureWe match newly disclosed, AI-discovered flaws against your software inventory, open-source dependencies and vendor products.
Rank what mattersEach one is scored by exploitation evidence, exposure and business impact, so the surge becomes an ordered queue.
Fix safely, with proofVM Remediation rolls out patches canary-first with two-person approval, then verifies and records every fix.
Cyber Priority AI is an independent firm. We are not affiliated with Anthropic and are not a Project Glasswing partner. Claude and Claude Mythos are trademarks of Anthropic. Figures are from Anthropic's Project Glasswing update of 22 May 2026.
One console for the whole lifecycle
Seven stages, one record. Every step feeds the next and leaves evidence behind. Select a stage to see what happens.
One ranked backlogEvery scanner, cloud and file feeds one de-duplicated list, ranked by known exploitation and business impact and grouped into root causes. One fix closes many findings.
Safe by defaultPre-flight checks on every server, a canary first, small waves inside your change windows, a failure budget that halts the run, a kill switch and one-click roll-back.
Two-person approval, enforcedThe requester can never approve. Production changes need two named people, by console, phone or chat, with the ticket and change-board pack produced for you.
Evidence an assessor can checkEvery finding, plan, approval and verified fix is written to a tamper-evident, hash-chained record. Evidence packs are built per framework in minutes and exported as a signed pack.
Cloud, VMs and containersThe same approvals, waves and evidence whether the target is a physical server, a virtual machine, a container or a cloud setting.
AI that assists and never acts aloneThe optional assistant drafts root causes, justifications and back-out plans. It cannot approve, schedule or run a change, and every suggestion is logged.
Works with what you own: Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, SSH and WinRM · AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud · VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Proxmox, Nutanix and Kubernetes · Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and Microsoft Defender · ServiceNow, Jira, Slack and Microsoft Teams · Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel · CyberArk and Delinea · Intune and Jamf.
46 compliance profiles: FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, NIST SP 800-53, NYDFS, NIS2, DORA and more.
Start with a 30-day pilot
Real findings, a real change and real evidence, on a scope you choose. You need 10 to 50 test servers, read access to one scanner and two approvers. No inbound firewall rules.
Connect
Connect one scanner and your asset inventory. Pick your frameworks and approvers.
Rank
Receive a ranked, de-duplicated backlog and your first planned change.
Fix
Run the first real change: check mode, then a canary, then waves.
Prove
Get the evidence bundle, an updated action plan and an executive read-out with your numbers.
Book a 30-minute live demo
The demo runs synthetic data through the real console. Nothing touches your systems until you say so.
* Illustrative model of annual cost for a 100-server organization, in-house manual remediation compared with the managed service. Actual results depend on your environment; assumptions are available on request. Statistics: Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, Google Cloud / Mandiant (2024), IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025.
How we work
Four steps. No shelfware.
Assess
We baseline your controls, architecture and exposures against the frameworks that govern you.
Prioritize
Every gap is scored and ranked, giving you a sequenced roadmap with effort and impact.
Remediate
We work beside your team to close the top items and verify that each fix held.
Sustain
Managed services keep controls monitored, evidence current and priorities up to date.
Who we are
Senior expertise, without the layers
Cyber Priority AI is led by a doctor of cybersecurity with 27 years in the field: a former CISO of a $2 billion U.S. corporation and a former senior security leader at Deloitte, with deep experience across healthcare, life sciences, financial services, energy and government. More than a dozen organizations rely on us today, from insurers and government agencies to financial institutions and universities. You work directly with the practitioner, from the first call to the final report.
HealthcareLife SciencesInsuranceFinancial ServicesEnergyGovernmentHigher Education & Research
Security teams rarely lack findings. They lack a clear answer to one question: what do we fix first?
That question is why this firm exists.Leadership you can verify
Every engagement is led personally by our principal.
ExecutiveFormer CISO, $2 billion U.S. corporationRan security, compliance and technology operations for a national healthcare services company.
Big FourFormer senior leader at DeloitteLed security strategy, governance and the firm's global data loss prevention program.
AcademicDoctor of Science in CybersecurityPlus a master's in network security, and former graduate professor of applied information technology.
ResearchPublished and patent pendingIEEE-published author, frequent conference speaker and inventor of a patent-pending control prioritization method.
A decade of research behind the method
Our prioritization engine was not invented for a sales pitch. It grew out of years of research into one idea: past breaches should decide which controls come first.
2014Research briefed to federal leadersControl prioritization metrics presented to cybersecurity leaders at the White House National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security, and at national security conferences.
2019Doctoral researchA dissertation using MITRE ATT&CK and breach evidence to find control gaps in a leading healthcare security framework.
2020 to 2023Published and appliedAn IEEE paper on advanced persistent threat analysis, and white papers on applying MITRE ATT&CK to control prioritization.
TodayU.S. patent pendingAdaptive, closed-loop control prioritization: the engine behind every report we deliver.
Results from our principal's career
Outcomes delivered in prior leadership roles for large enterprises.
3.5M → <50Kmonthly vulnerability findings at a Fortune 100 life sciences company
60%fewer application security false positives
100%patch automation, plus a 25% productivity gain from identity modernization
$1Min recurring savings from a consolidated identity management system
40%faster audit reviews after introducing the company's first enterprise risk framework
Firstamong peers to earn federal certification for electronic prescribing of controlled substances
Also in our principal's career: advisory CISO for one of Canada's largest financial institutions · a custom security framework weighted by historic threats for one of the largest U.S. energy companies · an application security program redesign for a major U.S. bank · eight U.S. healthcare interoperability privacy and security assessments · cyber and IT audit work for hundreds of large organizations.
Certifications include: CCNA, Check Point CCSE, ITIL Practitioner, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR and XSIAM.
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