Evident Research

Research on the Cyber Admin Tax.

Evident studies the administrative work behind proving security: supplier review, questionnaires, audit prep, insurance evidence, reporting, and exception review.

research 01

The Hidden Cost Explosion

An interactive research piece and aggregate dataset on how AI discovery, supplier dependence, regulation, and insurance proof compound into security administration load.

11.1
Base-case admin load index in 2026, modeled and caveated.
research 02

The Cyber Admin Tax Index

A benchmark program for measuring the hours, handoffs, reuse, delays, and review paths created by security administration.

CAT
A measurement frame, not a public savings claim.
research 03

The validation bottleneck

Why security teams can discover more risk than they can administratively prove, route, explain, and close.

proof
The work after detection becomes the constraint.
research 04

Invisible supplier cost

How supplier security review turns into repeated evidence collection, follow-up, exception routing, and procurement delay.

reuse
The unit of leverage is answered once and trusted again.
research 05

Security administration as a system of work

A model for connecting change, obligation, work, and proof into a measurable operating loop.

loop
Change, obligation, work, proof.
methodology

We separate measured run data, field observations, and projections.

Public claims should distinguish what has been observed from what has been modeled. Evident does not present reduction targets as achieved results until customer-approved run data supports them.

measured
Workflow runs, handoffs, touch rates, evidence reuse, delay, and review outcomes.
observed
Patterns from security, procurement, GRC, risk, and insurance work.
projected
Savings or market models clearly labeled until supported by approved data.