buyer outcomes

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 cyber admin tax

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.

above the waterline · the visible breachwhat the market prices
Business-owner drag
$10.0M
Direct security-admin labor
$8.4M
Business delay
$4.3M
External services
$3.9M
Tool sprawl
$2.3M
Insurance admin friction
$1.2M
loaded
~$30M
total admin cost a year
addressable
~$17.6M
work a system of work can absorb
removed at target
~$9M
at the 50% guarantee
redeployed
~25 FTE
experts freed from clerical work

Cost stack sized to an average Fortune 500, ~$40B revenue and ~62k employees.6 illustrative · validated workflow by workflow in pilot

promise 01 · admin cost

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.

the levers it moves
manual touch rate
work done by hand, falling
evidence reuse rate
answered once, reused
duplicate control burden
one control, many forms
SME escalation rate
experts off the clerical path
business delay cost
time from change to proof
promise 02 · insurance

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 blind
Annual questionnaire, filled by hand
Attestation taken on trust
Outside-in scan, a partial picture
Stale by the time it is read

Evidence-based underwriting

priced on truth
Continuous, verified evidence from the work
Inside-out posture, mapped to controls that move loss
A current, complete picture
Faster turnaround, continuously proven

We claim the partnership and the mechanism with confidence, and hold the premium number until joint results support one.

promise 03 · transparency

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

the procurement gate
intake
A vendor enters
Inside the procurement workflow it already owns.
triage
Low risk auto-cleared
Minutes, not the 31 to 90 day window.4
route
Residual to a human
Scoped assessment, routed to a named approver.
proof
Cleared, on the record
Spend visibility on a cost that was invisible.
how it goes live

Nothing asks you to take the number on faith.

step 01
Prototype in an afternoon
A working prototype on your shape of the problem.
step 02
90-day live trial
On your own data, with Accenture's pod hands-on.
step 03
Term begins, sized to the saving
The three-year term starts only after the trial proves it.
measured on your operation, not a brochure average

See the cost on your own run data, and watch it fall.

Sources

  1. 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.
  2. Panaseer, 2025. Security Leaders Peer Report: 28 audits/year at 8 days of prep each.
  3. ISACA, 2025. State of Cybersecurity: 55% of cyber teams understaffed.
  4. EY, 2025. Global TPRM Survey: control assessments run 31 to 90 days; TPRM owned by procurement in only 10%.
  5. Shared Assessments, 2025; Cloud Security Alliance. SIG 1,936 / SIG Core 627; CAIQ v4 261 questions.
  6. Fortune, 2025 Fortune 500. Average company ~$40B revenue, ~62k employees. Cost stack is an Evident internal model, illustrative.