The Platform

Cloud security posture, data discovery, and cyber risk quantification — in one platform.

Theodolite™ unifies CSPM, DSPM, sensitive data discovery, and risk-based vulnerability management — with every finding translated into dollars via FAIR-based cyber risk quantification. Hours, not weeks. Operator-built. Every vCSO.ai engagement runs on it.

  • 15 years as CSO at Silicon Valley Bank (2007–2021), the bank of the innovation economy

  • $200B+ in assets defended at enterprise scale

  • Design partner to Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, CrowdStrike, FireEye, and Eclypsium

  • Author of Cyber War and Peace; board member, Bay Area CSO Council

  • Trusted advisor to PE/VC firms, cyber product companies, and enterprise boards

  • 15 years as CSO at Silicon Valley Bank (2007–2021), the bank of the innovation economy

  • $200B+ in assets defended at enterprise scale

  • Design partner to Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, CrowdStrike, FireEye, and Eclypsium

  • Author of Cyber War and Peace; board member, Bay Area CSO Council

  • Trusted advisor to PE/VC firms, cyber product companies, and enterprise boards

  • 15 years as CSO at Silicon Valley Bank (2007–2021), the bank of the innovation economy

  • $200B+ in assets defended at enterprise scale

  • Design partner to Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, CrowdStrike, FireEye, and Eclypsium

  • Author of Cyber War and Peace; board member, Bay Area CSO Council

  • Trusted advisor to PE/VC firms, cyber product companies, and enterprise boards

The Dashboard

One view. Risk in dollars.

Annual loss expectancy, 95th-percentile VaR, remediation cost, indicative insurance premium, and a prioritized top-10 remediation plan — all on a single working view a board or deal committee can act on.

Theodolite dashboard showing annual loss expectancy, 95th-percentile VaR, remediation cost, and a prioritized top-10 remediation plan

Weeks Hours

Consultant analysis compressed by Theodolite

$200B+

Assets defended at enterprise scale by the operator behind the platform

100%

Of vCSO.ai advisory engagements run on Theodolite

Capabilities

What Theodolite does

Four primitives that show up across every engagement — tuned to the audience that has to act on the output.

  1. Discover

    Find sensitive data automatically

    Sensitive data discovery across AWS, Azure, and GCP — PII, PHI, credentials, and shadow data surfaced and classified without manual tagging.

  2. Posture

    Map the cloud risk surface

    Cloud and data security posture management (CSPM + DSPM) in one view. Theodolite scans technical configuration, data exposure, and policy gaps simultaneously — weeks of consultant assessment compressed into hours.

  3. Quantify

    Translate risk into dollars

    FAIR-based cyber risk quantification turns vulnerability scores and exposure findings into annual loss expectancy and value at risk. Risk-based vulnerability prioritization, not generic CVSS rankings.

  4. Deliver

    Audience-formatted output

    Board-ready executive summaries, technical audit reports, and deal-room packets — Theodolite formats the same underlying analysis for whichever audience has to act on it.

Why It’s Different

Operators built it for operators.

Most security tools surface findings. Theodolite surfaces decisions. Built by a team that’s spent 15 years on the CSO side of the table, it formats risk the way boards, deal committees, and buyer committees actually consume it — in dollars, in scope, and in timelines that match the meeting you’re walking into.

The result: advisory engagements that move faster, findings that hold up under scrutiny, and a single source of truth across every touchpoint in the vCSO.ai program.

Companion tool: the vTC Calculator — a focused model for pricing the all-in cost of your security posture against fractional-advisory alternatives. Currently in private beta with our Strategic Advisory clients.

Machine speed, operator quality

Same depth a Big Four team would deliver, on a turnaround the deal cycle can absorb. The platform does the heavy lifting; advisors make the judgment calls.

Outcome-formatted output

Board summaries, technical audits, deal memos, buyer briefs — one source of analysis, many audience-ready views.

Private by design

Your data stays inside your perimeter or a segregated workspace. Theodolite is an accelerator, not an aggregator.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask about Theodolite.

What is cyber risk quantification?

Cyber risk quantification (CRQ) is the practice of translating cybersecurity findings — vulnerability scores, control gaps, exposure data — into financial measures like annual loss expectancy and value at risk. Instead of describing risk in severity stars or red/yellow/green status, CRQ outputs a dollar figure a board, CFO, or deal committee can act on. Theodolite uses the FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk) methodology paired with Monte Carlo simulation to produce these estimates.

What is cloud security posture management (CSPM)?

Cloud security posture management is the continuous monitoring and assessment of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) for misconfigurations, compliance violations, and risk exposure. CSPM tools surface findings like over-permissive IAM roles, unencrypted storage buckets, and exposed services. Theodolite extends classic CSPM by translating findings into dollar-denominated risk so engineering work is prioritized by business impact, not CVSS score.

What is data security posture management (DSPM)?

Data security posture management is the practice of finding sensitive data wherever it lives in cloud environments — across databases, object storage, containers, SaaS applications — and assessing how exposed it is. DSPM answers questions like "where is our PII?" and "is any of it exposed to the public internet?" Theodolite combines DSPM with CSPM and CRQ so data exposure findings carry a dollar value and remediation priority, not just a finding flag.

How does Theodolite differ from a single-purpose CSPM, DSPM, or CRQ tool?

Most security tools cover one layer — CSPM scans infrastructure misconfigurations, DSPM finds sensitive data, CRQ platforms model loss expectancy. Theodolite unifies all three so findings from each layer compound: a data-discovery hit on PII in an exposed S3 bucket flows directly into the loss-expectancy model with a real impact value, and the resulting remediation work is prioritized by dollar risk reduction, not by tool-specific severity. Built by operators who lived the multi-tool problem first-hand.

What is risk-based vulnerability management?

Risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) prioritizes vulnerability remediation by business impact rather than by raw CVSS score. A "critical" CVE on an isolated test server is less urgent than a "medium" CVE on an internet-facing system holding regulated data. Theodolite implements RBVM by feeding vulnerability scan output (Nessus, OpenVAS) into the same FAIR-based loss-expectancy model that drives the rest of the platform — so the remediation queue ranks every finding by dollar risk reduction per hour of work.

See Theodolite applied to your context.

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