Cynomi Adds Automated BIA, BCP Features to vCISO Platform for MSSPs

Cybersecurity has grown more complex than ever. The attack surface keeps expanding, driven by remote work, Internet of Things, edge, computing, and ongoing cloud adoption, while threats are becoming more advanced and relentless. At the same time, security teams are overwhelmed by a flood of tools, each promising protection but often adding to the noise.

Security teams and MSSPs have to sort through all this to find what their organizations and customers need most and then supply it, which is no easy feat.

“Cybersecurity is often seen as a technical discipline, but its true impact lies in protecting what matters most to a business,” Cynomi, which provides a virtual CISO (vCISO) platform for MSSPs and MSPs, the company wrote in a blog post. “Identifying the most critical processes and assets is the first step in ensuring resilience, but without the right approach, even experienced professionals can miss the bigger picture.”

The four-year-old Israeli startup, which raised $37 million Series B funding in April, is giving MSSPs and other cybersecurity providers the tools to more easily do all this, adding automated business impact analysis (BIA) and business continuity planning (BCP) features to its AI-powered platform.

“These new capabilities are a natural extension of Cynomi’s mission,” Cynomi co-founder and CEO David Primor told MSSP Alert. “We’ve always focused on helping MSPs and MSSPs deliver scalable, high-quality vCISO services. The addition of BIA and BCP rounds out our vCISO suite, allowing our partners to not only assess and manage cybersecurity risks but also ensure business resilience.”

This is Cynomi growing the value it provides rather than expanding into a new space, Primor said. The vCISO platform already includes risk assessments, compliance readiness, remediation planning, and policy generation. He called BIA and BCP “the logical next steps in offering a truly holistic, end-to-end cybersecurity and business continuity solution.”

Features and Trends

BIA and BCP are key elements to keeping organizations up and running during and after a disruption or crisis, including major IT outages or cyberattacks.

“From regional war to major IT outages, the last few years have been a wild ride,” Noggin, which offers a security, resilience, and critical event management software platform, wrote in a blog post last month. “Indeed, the proliferation of crises in recent memory has pushed business continuity software providers to innovate and develop solutions that can adequately mitigate the increasing business continuity risk organizations are facing.”

Among the trends in the BCP space that Noggin expects to see this year are easier integrations between platforms and tools, software more quickly betting businesses back up and running, and tools that give organizations a fuller picture of relationships and dependencies.

Automation is Key

Cynomi’s new BIA and BCP features will make that easier through its focus on automation via the vCISO platform, Primor said.

“Traditional BIA and BCP processes are typically labor-intensive, involving spreadsheets, static documents, and manual interviews,” the CEO said. “They’re slow to execute, hard to scale, and often disconnected from real-time security data.”

Cynomi’s use of AI plays a key role, with its proprietary algorithms that leverage CISO-level expertise, he said. MSSPs and MSPs can automatically gather and analyze business-function data, assess criticality, simulate potential attacks, and then generate documentation.

“AI ensures BIA and BCP processes are dynamic, client-specific, and constantly up-to-date,” he said, adding that the BIA and BCP process are adaptive, updated, and actionable.

Cynomi’s platform “continuously analyzes a client’s business-critical functions, maps dependencies, and identifies potential threats to operations,” he said. “From there, it auto-generates BIA reports and tailored BCP plans that are actionable and aligned with regulatory standards.”

Expanding MSSPs' Role

It allows MSSPs and MSPs to quickly deliver high-quality and client-specific BIA and BCP plans without growing overhead, eliminate bottlenecks caused by the manual operations like data gathering, makes it easier to update or repeat processes as environments evolve, Primor said.

It also expands their role with their customers.

“These features help MSPs and MSSPs show clients how security ties directly to business operations and resilience,” he said. “They elevate the conversation to the business level and help service providers engage with their client's management. This enhances the service provider’s positioning as a strategic partner – not just a compliance provider or technical operator – and opens the door to expanding revenue through resilience consulting, risk mitigation implementation, and more.”