Accountability is personal
Senior owners sign off risk. They need to understand exactly what they are accepting and why.
Public & Defense
Mission assurance as a governed, evidence-backed decision.
CYNAPSE provides a controlled environment for sensitive systems, critical facilities, mission assets, suppliers, requirements, risk decisions, and formal security cases.
The challenge
What sets Public & Defense apart.
Controlled, explainable governance for mission systems and their suppliers, ending in a security case leaders can sign.
Supply chain depth
Capabilities arrive through primes and subcontractors. Inherited controls and their evidence are hard to see.
Evidence must hold up
Audits and accreditation reviews expect a coherent record of claims, arguments, evidence, and decisions.
In scope
The systems you can model.
Each system becomes assets, zones, and interfaces in one project, so risk, exposure, and evidence stay connected to what actually runs.
- Mission and command systems
- Critical facilities and estates
- Secure networks and enclaves
- Supplier-delivered platforms
- Identity and access
- Shared government services
- Physical security systems
- Data centres and cloud
How CYNAPSE helps
Turn mission assurance into a governed, evidence-backed decision.
RABUILD GRC carries the risk, controls, and security case. Exposure Engine ranks vulnerabilities by what the asset does. Navai Assistant guides each step.
Protect mission dependencies
Connect critical functions to the systems, assets, interfaces, people, suppliers, and safeguards they depend on.
Control evidence and accountability
Maintain ownership, approvals, validation results, treatment decisions, exceptions, and traceable supporting evidence.
Govern supply-chain exposure
Assess third parties, shared services, integration boundaries, inherited controls, and delivery dependencies.
Build a defensible security case
Present claims, arguments, evidence, gaps, risk acceptance, and executive decisions in a coherent assurance record.
Standards
The standards your assessors will ask about.
Built in: control libraries ship with RABUILD GRC. Traced: captured as project requirements and linked to the same controls, evidence, and reports.
ISO/IEC 27001Information security managementBuilt in
NIST CSF 2.0Cyber risk outcomes for leadershipBuilt in
IEC 62443Security for facility and mission OTBuilt in
CIS Controls v8Prioritized hardening safeguardsBuilt in
National security frameworksGovernment and defence controls in your jurisdictionTraced
Supplier security clausesContractual security requirements on primes and subcontractorsTraced
Example
Accrediting a supplier-delivered system
An illustrative engagement showing how the work flows through CYNAPSE.
The situation
A prime contractor delivers a mission system built on shared services. The senior owner must accept residual risk before it goes live.
- In CYNAPSE
- 1Map the mission function to systems, interfaces, suppliers, and inherited controls.
- 2Assess scenarios, record treatments and exceptions, and collect supplier evidence against each control.
- 3Assemble claims, arguments, and evidence into a security case routed for approval.
What you get
A security case dossier with an executive decision pack: what is protected, what remains open, and what the owner is accepting.
See report typesFurther reading
Practical guidance from the Knowledge Center.
Field notes and playbooks written for teams that run critical systems.
Methodology Note
Board-Level Cyber Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Operators
What leadership actually needs from a cyber risk report, and why CVE counts are the wrong altitude of information.
Read Knowledge ArticleSecurity Controls Explained: Types, Advantages, and How They Map to Compliance
A structured guide to what a security control actually is, the categories every control falls into (preventive, detective, corrective, deterrent,...
Read Case StudyBuilding a Defensible Risk Register During a Substation Automation Upgrade
A power distribution utility used NIST CSF categories and standard risk-register discipline to make a substation automation upgrade's cyber risks...
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Other industries
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