Frequently Asked Questions

X-Analytics is a cyber risk management platform powered by a patented cyber risk methodology. It translates cyber threats into financial exposure insights, simplifying the measurement of cyber risk, the prioritization of initiatives, the demonstration of program success, and more.

X-Analytics was designed to work with your existing processes, program, and data. To generate cyber risk insights, X-Analytics blends 3 types of data: Continuously updated and verified cyber loss and threat data for your industry(ies)—we take care of this! The X-Analytics Research Team has amassed one of the industry's largest, continuously-growing collections of actual cyber loss data. This data is organized by industry verticals and by geographic region. High-level Company Information, such as Annual Revenue, Countries of Operation, Number of Employees, and more. High-Level Cybersecurity Program Details, such as Cybersecurity Assessments or other measures of program efficacy.

X-Analytics leverages over 100 data sources, continuously updating its analytics to reflect the rapidly evolving cyber threat environment. This includes dynamic variables such as threats, financial impacts, and incident probabilities across more than 21 industry verticals and 18 geographic regions.

X-Analytics insights are generated by a patented, market-proven, model validated, and heavily-scrutinized methodology. The X-Analytics methodology, available to all customers, provides transparency and repeatability in the form of a robust actuarial model. Behind every insight, the methodology is blending real-world data and characteristics about your business and cybersecurity program.

An X-Analytics profile (a view of risk based on a defined scope, such as a business or a business unit) can be built within minutes. But on average, it takes less than an hour to receive comprehensive cyber risk insights from the X-Analytics platform.

After building a profile, customers will instantly receive advanced cyber risk insights. After one or two meetings with our expert Customer Success Team and with no changes to their existing program, Customers will usually begin to incorporate X-Analytics' insights into their discussions and decision-making!

Customers comment that ongoing updates typically require about an hour of attention each month. This includes ensuring that the profile(s) accurately represents the business and the cybersecurity program. Examples of updates include accounting for changes, such as mergers, acquisitions, or new technology deployments. The X-Analytics platform, resources, and expert Customer Success Team ensure customers are well-equipped to easily incorporate changes into their X-Analytics profile(s).

X-Analytics was designed to provide reliable and actionable insights in minutes, not months. This is true for small business, large enterprises, private equity companies, and anything in between. Acquire a new business? Your profile(s) can be updated within an hour. Divest part of the business? Your profile(s) can be updated within an hour. Adjust your business structure completely? You get the idea.

X-Analytics can facilitate integrations via API or via MCP. That said, to receive valuable insights, there is no requirement for technology integrations.

When you choose to work with X-Analytics, you'll receive enterprise-level support from a dedicated Customer Success Manager, who's well-versed in the X-Analytics platform and risk management practices. If needed, you'll also have access to our broader team of experts for additional questions that may arise.

CISOs, like the businesses they protect, are unique. But typically, they use X-Analytics to help facilitate risk management discussions and decisions. Often, X-Analytics becomes another helpful metric that can be utilized to build cyber risk management strategies, to justify cybersecurity investments, to educate stakeholders, and more.

Board members possess varying levels of cybersecurity expertise, but we find one overarching commonality: Boards want to help. To do so, they want to understand a business' cyber risk posture in order to ensure the cybersecurity has what it needs to ensure business resiliency. Customers and Boards have found X-Analytics to be an incredibly valuable mechanism for translating the nuances of cybersecurity into a language universally understood by the Board: dollars and cents.