Half the admin cost, lower premiums, full transparency.
Security administration is a hidden operating cost pool, scattered across security, procurement, legal, finance, internal audit, and IT, and measured by nobody. Here is the end-to-end economic picture, and the levers that move it.
The breach is the tip. The cost is everything below the waterline.
An average enterprise spends 37.4 hours a week on vendor assessments alone,1 runs 28 audits a year at eight days of prep each,2 and loses scarce experts to it while 55% of cyber teams stay understaffed.3 Procurement is the buyer because it spends its own budget on its own outcome. The CFO is the sponsor because the cost pool finally has an owner.
Cost stack sized to an average Fortune 500, ~$40B revenue and ~62k employees.6 illustrative · validated workflow by workflow in pilot
Admin cost, down 50%.
Measured workflow by workflow on your own run data. The system of work absorbs the work, and reuse, answer a control once and reuse it on the five-hundredth questionnaire, drives the marginal cost of each artifact toward zero. The standardized forms alone show the scale: a full SIG runs 1,936 questions, SIG Core 627, CAIQ 261.5 You pay against the cost removed, not seats and not hours.
Lower premiums, priced on what is actually true.
Evident works directly with major reinsurers and insurers to price cyber risk on detailed, verified evidence, in place of the legacy methods that underwrite blind. The whole value chain is short of trustworthy, current, inside-out posture data, and Evident produces exactly that as a byproduct of the work it already runs. Better risk analysis, not more paperwork.
Legacy underwriting
priced blindEvidence-based underwriting
priced on truthWe claim the partnership and the mechanism with confidence, and hold the premium number until joint results support one.
A hidden cost, made evident and shown falling.
The cyber admin tax has been invisible. Evident names it, reads the levers, and shows the saving against baseline, quarter over quarter, visible to client and Accenture alike. Procurement enters through the procurement gate, which clears low-risk suppliers in minutes instead of the 31 to 90 days a control assessment takes today.4
Nothing asks you to take the number on faith.
See the cost on your own run data, and watch it fall.
Sources
- Whistic, 2025. Third-Party Risk Management Impact Report: 37.4 hrs/week on assessments; 84% of first assessments need follow-up; ~12-day average response.
- Panaseer, 2025. Security Leaders Peer Report: 28 audits/year at 8 days of prep each.
- ISACA, 2025. State of Cybersecurity: 55% of cyber teams understaffed.
- EY, 2025. Global TPRM Survey: control assessments run 31 to 90 days; TPRM owned by procurement in only 10%.
- Shared Assessments, 2025; Cloud Security Alliance. SIG 1,936 / SIG Core 627; CAIQ v4 261 questions.
- Fortune, 2025 Fortune 500. Average company ~$40B revenue, ~62k employees. Cost stack is an Evident internal model, illustrative.