For the CISO
Answer the board without rebuilding the deck each quarter
Cyber risk carries its threats, vulnerabilities, exposed assets, and reducing controls. Board rollup snapshots come from that same record rather than from a parallel spreadsheet.
- Control effectiveness scored across design, operating, and implementation
- Indicators with warning and critical thresholds, linked to controls and findings
- Board rollup snapshots generated from live risk data
- Security events ingested and turned into risk activity by rule
- Threat
Organised crime group
- Sophistication: high
- Intent: financial
- Confidence: corroborated
exploits - Vulnerability
Unpatched edge appliance
- Severity: critical
- Found by: external scan
- SLA bucket: 7 days
affects - Exposure
3 asset instances
- Internet-facing
- Confidentiality: high
- Owner: Network Ops
Control effectiveness is scored separately for design, operation, and implementation, so a well-designed control that is not operating does not quietly reduce the score.
Goals & pressures
What you are accountable for
Sentinel Unity is shaped around how this role actually works in regulated organizations, not generic GRC marketing language.
Goals
- Show posture movement over time, not a point-in-time score
- Tie every reported number back to a control and an owner
- Know which vulnerabilities touch which asset instances
- Keep remediation SLAs visible before they are breached
Common pressures
- Board packs assembled by hand from four different sources
- Control effectiveness recorded as a single subjective rating
- Vulnerability data that never connects to the risk register
- Indicators that live on a dashboard and influence nothing
Platform modules
How Sentinel Unity supports this role
Real modules from one connected platform with shared controls, evidence, and audit history across risk, compliance, and audit workflows.
See Sentinel Unity from the CISO seat
A walkthrough scoped to the work you actually own, using your frameworks and entity structure.