Diligent Automates Cyber Risk Assessments and Reporting

Diligent has unveiled Diligent Cyber Risk Management, a new agentic solution designed to help organizations contextualize cybersecurity risk within broader business operations. The platform, set for release in summer 2026, dramatically compresses cyber risk assessment timelines from weeks down to hours, while linking specific threats directly to strategic goals, essential business processes, and board-level oversight. This approach allows companies to prioritize security investments based on actual business impact rather than technical severity alone.

“Municipal security teams don’t have the luxury of piecing together risk from scattered scans and spreadsheets. We need up-to-date insight into how cybersecurity can best protect the services our community depends on,” said Dave Schultz, Risk Manager, Risk and Controls for the City of Lethbridge. “An agentic solution that accelerates assessments and clearly connects threats and vulnerabilities to strategic priorities would be transformative in helping us make credible recommendations to leadership.”

Diligent Cyber Risk Management consolidates technical security data and business context into a single platform, supporting end-to-end cyber risk workflows. Key capabilities include AI-powered cyber risk assessments that merge threat, vulnerability, asset, and control data. The AI then generates risk scenarios, scores, and rationales, helping teams prioritize mitigation by business impact, not just technical severity.

The platform also features risk scoring tied to critical assets and processes. Automated, asset-level risk scores pinpoint where the business and its critical processes are most exposed, guiding patching, investment, and remediation toward the highest-priority areas. A centralized workspace for risk remediation and IT compliance allows teams to define and track treatment plans, assign owners, and monitor progress. This is complemented by AI-driven IT compliance that maps controls across multiple frameworks and automates testing.

For leadership communication, the solution provides board-ready cyber risk reporting through auto-updating dashboards. These dashboards connect cybersecurity threats to strategic objectives and critical processes, giving boards clear visibility into cyber posture and reducing CISO board preparation from days to hours. Finally, a unified GRC view across ERM, Audit, and Cyber is delivered through the Diligent One Platform, enabling organizations to manage cyber, enterprise, and audit risk together, eliminating conflicting risk narratives and providing a single source of truth for the C-suite and board.

“Most security teams are drowning in vulnerability scans, threat feeds and control data, yet lacking the one thing the board keeps asking for: a clear picture of what is truly at risk for the business,” said Scott Bridgen, General Manager, Risk & Audit at Diligent. “Diligent Cyber Risk Management turns static risk registers and checkbox compliance into an AI-powered system of action, helping organizations prioritize the security decisions that matter and clarify the impact of AI, IT and cyber risk to management and the board.”