Ingest
Exports from the scanners, SIEM, EDR, GRC and vendor scorecards you already run — plus a short business-context intake: revenue, regulated systems, compliance regimes, team size.
The decision layer for security leadership
Not a dashboard.
A decision.
Tereta takes the findings your security tools already produce and compresses them into a handful of board-ready decisions — what to fix, what it costs, what it protects, and what you trade off.
We’ll build one board-ready Decision Brief for your organization — free — in exchange for candid feedback.
Northwind Robotics · FY26 Q1
Hard deadline16,212findings across 5 tools
5 decisions
The Certification Cliff
Cannot pass CMMC L2; primes require it for award → dropped from supply chain.
medium confidenceIllustrative
The job
“I’m drowning in findings, and I have to walk into a board conversation and say what we should do, why, what it costs, and what we’re protecting.”
The security leader at a resource-starved mid-market or sub-CISO company.
Every tool in the stack answers a question nobody in the boardroom asked. Scanners produce findings. Dashboards produce counts. Quantification tools produce a dollar figure and stop.
None of them produce the decision — the one a leader can defend, fund, and be held to.
Visibility tools stop at the findingCRQ tools stop at the numberTereta delivers the decision
How it works
Three layers. The middle one is the product.
Ingestion is plumbing. Delivery is the artifact. What sits between them — the engine that clusters, translates, prioritizes and recommends — is the intellectual property.
Decide
The IPCluster thousands of findings into 5–10 business risk themes by consequence, not by CVE. Translate each into exposure, timeframe, fix cost and ROI. Prioritize against finite resources so the trade-off is explicit.
Deliver
The board-ready Decision Brief, a living Do now / This year / Defer workspace, and a one-slide board view a director absorbs in thirty seconds.
The compression
Your chaos, in 5 cards.
Each theme carries its business consequence, an exposure range with a confidence level, and full provenance back to the findings underneath.
contract eligibility lossHard deadline
T1The Certification Cliff
Cannot pass CMMC L2; primes require it for award → dropped from supply chain.
$12.6Mexpected (one-time)
single event $28M
medium confidence
This yearIllustrative
data breach spillActive now
T2Unguarded CUI
CUI is reachable and access is untraceable → DFARS reporting + default risk.
$700Kexpected / yr
shared incident · single event $1.2M–$3M
medium confidence
This yearIllustrative
operational downtimeActive now
T3Shop-Floor Shutdown
Unpatchable OT is a ransomware beachhead that can halt production.
$750Kexpected / yr
shared incident · single event $1.5M–$4M
medium confidence
DeferIllustrative
account compromise entryHard deadline
T4The Open Front Door
Identity is wide open AND it breaches the cyber-insurance renewal conditions.
$1.5Mexpected (one-time)
single event $1M–$5M
high confidence
Do nowIllustrative
undetected compromiseActive now
T5Breach in the Blind
Live RCE + ignored alerts + no IR → undetected compromise this quarter.
$1.6Mexpected / yr
shared incident · single event $2M–$6M
medium confidence
Do nowIllustrative
Illustrative figures from a representative CMMC engagement. Ranges, confidence and provenance shown — expected values, not single points.
The artifact
The brief they can actually approve.
Every decision states what it costs, what it protects, and the trade-off it forces. The trade-off is the part every other tool leaves out.
Northwind Robotics, Inc.Decision Brief · FY26 Q1
The one thing to remember
Missing CMMC L2 puts ~$12.6M expected prime revenue ($8.4-16.8M range; $28M gross) at risk, plus an $18M RTX bid (~$4.5M expected at 25% win); honest fix ~$565K/12-18mo, which also clears insurance and cuts ~$1.6M/yr expected breach exposure.
The decisions, ranked
1Get CMMC Level 2 certified
This yearAt stake: $28M gross / ~$8-13M expected + $18M bidCost: $465KThe certification program; controls double as breach-prevention (one program, two returns).
Trade-off: Funding this consumes the budget; the OT re-arch is deferred (see D-ot).
2Stop the bleeding & close the front door
Do nowAt stake: $5M coverage + breach entryCost: low (~$100K)Cheapest, fastest, clears insurance cliff and live break-in paths.
Trade-off: Negligible — these are high-impact, low-cost and time-critical.
3Shop-floor machine isolation
DeferAt stake: $1.5-4M downtime (Med)Cost: $235KDefer full OT segmentation to FY27; the wormable path is fixed Do-Now for $5K.
Trade-off: Funding OT now ($235K) would defer certification ~4mo and risk the $28M window.
Accepted residual risk: Interim OT downtime risk, mitigated by the $5K worm-path stopgap.
Ninety seconds
The same decision, on one slide.
A CFO reads it without a translator, and it prints to PDF without being reformatted first.
Northwind Robotics, Inc.The Board Decision · FY26 Q1
The Certification Cliff has two separate costs:
$12.6M
expected prime revenue at risk · $28M gross
$8.4M–$16.8M range · medium confidence
$18M
RTX next-gen propulsion bid locked out — growth, not added to the risk
Honest fix $565K — one program, not five line items. It also clears the cyber-insurance renewal, against $1.6M/yr of current expected breach exposure.
Do now$100K
Stop the bleeding & close the front doorMFA everywhere + kill legacy auth · Reduce admins + deprovision stale/departed · Disable SMBv1 / block 445 at OT boundary (worm fix) · Decom/migrate internet-facing Exchange · Escalate active alerts + MSP escalation SLA
This year$465K
Get CMMC Level 2 certifiedCentral logging / SIEM-lite · IR plan + tabletop · FIPS-validated crypto for CUI at rest · CUI boundary + access governance · GCC High migration (CUI tenant) · C3PAO readiness + assessment + vCISO
Defer$235K
Shop-floor machine isolationOT network re-architecture (full segmentation)
The ask
Approve a ~$565K, 12-18mo program (one program, not five line items), or decide the $115K-gap trade-off; front-load the $100K emergency tier this quarter.
The upside
Early certification = eligible for the $18M RTX next-gen propulsion bid, plus preferred-supplier positioning most competitors will not have.
And when the budget does not stretch
Comfortable budget$565K allocated of $450K
$115K over. Drag a theme into Defer and the workspace prices what you just gave up — deferring T1 surrenders the $28M certification window. The engine says so before you commit, with the range ($8.4M–$16.8M expected) and horizon attached.
Do now
T4$1.5M
T5$1.6M
This year
T1$12.6M
T2$700K
Defer
T3$750K
Beyond the risk decision
Security as offense, not just defense.
Tereta is longitudinal — it remembers every decision and tracks it to its outcome. Two board-changing capabilities fall out of that record.
Wins & Program Progress
Looking back: what was decided, what was executed, and what it bought — exposure removed in dollars, control gaps closed, audits passed. The CISO walks in able to say “here’s what last quarter’s investment bought you.”
Turns the budget conversation from defensive to earned.
Opportunity Radar
Looking forward: the markets improved posture unlocks. Two controls from CMMC Level 2 opens the DoD pipeline. Meeting the SOC 2 bar unblocks stalled enterprise deals. A lower risk profile cuts the insurance premium.
Not just loss avoided — revenue and markets unlocked.
Who it’s for
Two audiences, one artifact.
- 01
The security leader who has to ask for money
CISO, head of security, or the only security person at a mid-market or sub-CISO company — walking into a board meeting with thousands of findings and no funding case.
- 02
The CFO or board who has to approve it
Risk in financial terms they can evaluate, with the trade-off made explicit — so they can approve or challenge the spend with confidence instead of on faith.
Design partners
We’ll build your first Decision Brief. Free.
We’re taking on a small number of design partners. You get a board-ready brief built from your own exports. We get the candid feedback that makes the product right.
Under NDA, with a data-processing agreement. We work from exports and store the minimum.