Financial intelligence for cybersecurity
ImpactIQ
A cyber risk platform built to turn technical findings into financial clarity, so security decisions stop getting lost between analysts and the boardroom.
This product interested me because the real problem was never just detection. Security teams already have scanners. What most companies still do not have is a system that explains what those findings mean in dollars, urgency, and business consequence. I focused on the product surfaces that make that translation clear instead of overwhelming.
Core belief
I was not interested in building another security dashboard that throws findings at people and calls that clarity. I wanted to build something that helps teams understand what matters, what it could cost, and what to do next.
Security products are full of CVEs, severity scores, and long reports. That is not the same thing as decision support. This product needed to answer harder questions: what threatens revenue right now, what is actually being exploited, and what should we fix first?
Most tools stop at technical findings. ImpactIQ keeps going into financial exposure, remediation ROI, insurance gaps, and board-level reporting. That matters because the moment security risk becomes decision-ready, the product stops being a narrow tool and starts becoming executive infrastructure.
I focused on the workflow-heavy product layer: summary dashboards, app detail views, scans, findings, remediation paths, and the places where the platform has to feel operational rather than purely technical.
The platform combines universal report ingestion, active-threat correlation, breach-cost modeling, ROI prioritization, insurance-gap visibility, and executive-ready reporting.
Most tools stop at technical findings. ImpactIQ keeps going into financial exposure, remediation ROI, insurance gaps, and board-level reporting. That matters because the moment security risk becomes decision-ready, the product stops being a narrow tool and starts becoming executive infrastructure.
What makes it interesting
The platform is designed to start from the reports teams already have: PDF, Excel, CSV, JSON, and XML. That matters because buyers do not want a new security workflow just to get value.
Risk Assessment answers, 'What could happen across our whole posture?' Threat Intelligence answers, 'What is being exploited right now and what will it cost if we do nothing?' Both belong in the same product.
The threat intelligence side ties findings to CISA KEV, IBM breach-cost logic, business criticality, data sensitivity, regulatory exposure, and insurance context. That is what turns technical risk into board language.
The product does not stop at exposure numbers. It shows remediation ROI, priority scores, and insurance gaps so teams can make budget and response decisions faster.
- Automatic active-threat framing instead of static severity alone
- Business and board language built into the core product
- Threat intelligence and broader risk assessment live together instead of as separate disconnected tools
- Strong internal test coverage on the financial and prioritization logic adds credibility to the engine beneath the UI
I treated dense security screens like product UX, not like a dumping ground for charts and panic.
I kept the product centered on action: what is urgent, what will cost the most, what is covered, and what to fix next.
I designed the surface so technical users can go deep while executive users can still understand the situation in minutes, not meetings.
- Designed for 1,000+ active users across analyst and executive-heavy workflows.
- Threat-intelligence service logic is documented with 198 passing tests.
- The product creates a much stronger bridge between technical security work and financial decision-making.