Patent-Pending Architecture · USPTO Filed

The FICO® of Cybersecurity

Modeled Around Proven Human Engineering Factors

Credit scores standardized financial risk. The Human Vulnerability Index (HVI) standardizes human cyber risk into an objective, dynamic, patent-pending index—calibrated on a universal 0 to 1,000 scale without invasive surveillance.

Standardized Resilience Scale

The 0 to 1,000 Scoring Matrix

Just as financial credit scoring established universal creditworthiness bands, HVI provides a definitive, objective resilience benchmark across four standardized performance tiers.

Hardened

850 – 1,000

Elite Resilience

Exceptional cognitive cyber discipline. Virtually immune to automated phishing and standard spear-phishing deception.

Resilient

700 – 849

Defensible Posture

Strong everyday security habits. Minor susceptibility to high-pressure executive urgency or advanced multi-channel pretexting.

Guarded

550 – 699

Moderate Exposure

Baseline protections active, but elevated vulnerability to urgency-driven credential harvesting and deceptive links.

High Exposure

Below 550

Critical Risk

Severe susceptibility to cognitive manipulation and credential theft. Immediate remediation and habit hardening required.

The Industry Crisis

Why Security Training Has Failed & Measurement Is The Only Way Forward

Over the past two decades, enterprises have poured billions of dollars into Computer-Based Training (CBT), compliance slide-decks, and trick-phishing tests. Yet, 80%+ of successful breaches still exploit the human layer.

The Broken Legacy ParadigmKnowledge ≠ Behavior

The Compliance Checkbox Trap

Standard awareness training assumes that showing employees a 45-minute annual video creates immunity. But human cognitive limitations are physical constants—an individual who scores 100% on a multiple-choice quiz on Monday will still click an executive impersonation link on Thursday afternoon when under extreme deadline pressure.

✕Static Annual Quizzes: Zero predictive correlation to real-world breach susceptibility.

✕Punitive Gotcha Tests: Breed fear, employee resentment, and failure concealment.

✕Linear Scoring Flaw: High scores in trivial areas falsely average away catastrophic vulnerabilities.

Result: Billions spent, yet human breaches continue at record rates.

Five Decades of Proven SciencePatent-Pending Model

Human Reliability Engineering

Five decades ago, high-consequence industries—commercial aviation, aerospace, and nuclear operations—stopped blaming human operators. Instead of trying to eliminate human nature through repetitive slides, they developed mathematical human factor models (like the Dirty Dozen) to isolate situational error precursors.

✓Empirical Behavioral Telemetry: Measures actual decision friction and cognitive response times.

✓Non-Compensatory Mathematics: Critical blind spots cannot be averaged away by high scores elsewhere.

✓Standardized FICO®-Style Index: Objective, repeatable 0–1,000 benchmark accepted by boards and insurers.

Solution: Continuous measurement and dynamic hardening under pressure.

Privacy-Preserving By Design

The Zero-Surveillance Doctrine: We Do NOT Spy On People

Security built on invasive employee surveillance destroys organizational trust and violates global privacy laws. CyberPosture was engineered from day one to quantify risk without compromising human dignity.

visibilityExternal Exposure

We Only Measure What Hackers See (Adversary OSINT)

Adversaries don't have access to your private thoughts—they exploit dark web credential leaks, compromised domain records, public LinkedIn organizational structures, and weaponizable metadata. HVI mirrors the exact reconnaissance vantage point of a sophisticated threat actor.

GDPR & DPDP Compliant•Zero Keystrokes

verified_userNo Snooping

Self-Disclosed & Consented Telemetry

We never install keystroke loggers, webcam monitors, or private email body inspectors. Metrics are derived strictly from consented behavioral responses, out-of-band scenario verifications, and decision latency under simulated cognitive pressure.

GDPR & DPDP Compliant•Zero Keystrokes

enhanced_encryptionCryptographic Privacy

Patent-Pending Anonymized Identifiers (ASI)

Individual identities are decoupled from behavioral telemetry using one-way cryptographic salting and hashing. Enterprise CISOs see macro-level departmental risk heatmaps, guaranteeing individual employees are completely protected from punitive monitoring.

GDPR & DPDP Compliant•Zero Keystrokes

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Dignity-Centered, Non-Punitive Culture

Surveillance breeds fear, causing employees to hide security mistakes and delay reporting phishing incidents. HVI fosters transparent, positive habit formation—transforming individuals and employees into an active, confident human firewall.

GDPR & DPDP Compliant•Zero Keystrokes

End-to-End Scientific Architecture

The Connected Scientific Pipeline

How CyberPosture transforms raw behavioral telemetry and psychological factors into an objective, patent-pending 0–1,000 resilience index through four sequential stages.

01Input Stage

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Telemetry & Privacy Ingestion

Zero-Surveillance Cryptographic Bridge

Ingests consented decision latency, OSINT credential exposure, and out-of-band verification signals. Maps data through Anonymized System Identifiers (ASI) using one-way cryptographic hashing to decouple personal identity from behavioral telemetry.

Validation Standard:GDPR & CCPA Compliant

02Psychological Layer

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Cognitive Vector Mapping

Cialdini's 6 Levers & Aviation Dirty Dozen

Maps decision friction across the 6 persuasion heuristics weaponized by threat actors (Authority, Urgency, Consistency, Reciprocity, Social Proof, Liking) combined with the 12 aviation failure precursors (Time Pressure, Distraction, Fatigue, Complacency).

Validation Standard:5 Decades of Proven Science

03Mathematical Engine

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Non-Compensatory Geometric Math

Patent-Pending Scoring Algorithm (USPTO)

Unlike flawed linear models where high hygiene averages away fatal blind spots, CyberPosture's patent-pending geometric aggregation models catastrophic single-point failures. If critical verification breaks, the score reflects true exposure.

Validation Standard:No Averaging Away Flaws

04Output Stage

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Dynamic Bayesian Trajectory

Standardized 0–1,000 FICO®-Style Index

Applies Dynamic Bayesian Updating to continuous real-world micro-interactions, establishing a living resilience trajectory—Hardening (↑), Defensible (→), or Drifting toward Exposure (↓)—standardized on the universal 0–1,000 credit score index.

Validation Standard:Universal 0–1,000 Index

01. Ingestion (ASI)──►02. Cognitive Vectors──►03. Geometric Math (Patent-Pending)──►04. 0–1,000 FICO® Standard

Scientific Modeling & Defensibility

Methodology

Unlike checklist compliance or static training quizzes, CyberPosture's methodology rejects subjective guesswork. Our architecture is engineered on empirical behavioral psychology, aviation human reliability engineering, actuarial loss mathematics, and high-assurance data integrity standards.

Every employee risk signal, 0–1,000 resilience index calculation, and automated audit workpaper adheres to validated, peer-reviewed scientific frameworks—ensuring complete mathematical defensibility for individuals, CISOs, and independent audit teams.

psychology_altCognitive Exploit Modeling

Behavioral Psychology

Cialdini’s 6 Principles of Influence

Robert Cialdini's seminal persuasion framework models how social engineering actors weaponize human cognitive heuristics: Authority (executive spoofing), Scarcity & Urgency (panic triggers), Consistency (commitment traps), Reciprocity (quid pro quo), Social Proof (herd compliance), and Liking (affinity pretexting). HVI measures resistance against these exact behavioral levers.

Human Vulnerability Index (HVI)Scientific Model →

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Human Reliability Engineering

The Dirty Dozen Human Factors

Derived from high-reliability aviation safety, the Dirty Dozen isolates the 12 psychological and environmental conditions—including Pressure, Urgency, Fatigue, Complacency, Distraction, and Norms—that precede 80%+ of security breakdowns. CyberPosture models situational context rather than assigning punitive blame.

Human Factor AnalysisScientific Model →

verifiedAudit-Grade Verifiability

High-Assurance Evidence Governance

ALCOA / ALCOA+ Data Integrity

Originating in regulated life sciences and pharmaceutical compliance, ALCOA+ mandates that every risk signal and RAMP audit workpaper is Attributable, Legible, Contemporaneous, Original, and Accurate (+ Complete, Consistent, Enduring, Available), providing audit-ready cryptographic defensibility.

Audit Integrity StandardScientific Model →

paymentsDollar-Value Pricing

Actuarial Financial Loss Modeling

FAIR™ Quantitative Risk ($VaR)

Factor Analysis of Information Risk (Open FAIR™) replaces subjective 'High/Medium/Low' heatmaps with probabilistic Value-at-Risk ($VaR) loss distributions. It prices risk exposure in concrete dollars using value at risk across productivity loss, incident response, regulatory fines, and reputation impact.

VALORA AI & RAMPScientific Model →

smart_toyAlgorithmic Exposure Guardrails

AI Governance & Algorithmic Safety

NIST AI RMF 1.0 & ISO/IEC 42001

The premier global benchmarks for Artificial Intelligence Management Systems (AIMS). The VALORA engine benchmarks autonomous LLMs, agentic workflows, and training data pipelines—uncovering surprising algorithmic exposure and pricing it into concrete dollar figures using value at risk.

VALORA AI EngineScientific Model →

fact_checkSOC 2 · GDPR · HIPAA · PCI DSS

Day 1 Audit Readiness

Multi-Regulation Baseline & Test of Design (ToD)

Tech-stack tailored control cross-mapping that verifies control design integrity in 30 seconds across SOC 2 Type II, EU GDPR, HIPAA Security Rule, and PCI DSS v4.0, packaging signed, immutable workpapers ready for export to day-to-day CCM tools.

RAMP ArchitectureScientific Model →

Operational Defensibility

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