Designed by former partners and senior managers from Accenture, EY, and PwC — professionals who built and advised cybersecurity compliance programs for Fortune 500 companies across financial services, healthcare, and defense.
Pistos brings that same institutional methodology to organizations of any size — providing continuous structure around risk, controls, documentation, and evidence, with near real-time AI-driven updates that keep the program aligned with changing regulatory requirements and operational realities over time.
Regulations change. NY DFS amends. NIST publishes a new revision. OCR updates its audit protocol. Pistos monitors these changes continuously and updates your compliance posture automatically — so you are never caught off guard by a requirement that changed last quarter.
Most regulated organizations face three to five overlapping frameworks simultaneously. Pistos anchors every obligation to CIS Controls v8.1 — a single implementation satisfies NY DFS, HIPAA, CMMC, GLBA, and every other framework that shares the underlying control. No duplication. No gaps.
Compliance is the floor, not the ceiling. Pistos reads what is actually configured in your environment — not what tools report about themselves. The result is a security program that genuinely reduces risk, not one that satisfies a checklist while leaving real exposures in place.
Evaluates release notes against CIS v8.1 safeguards. Updates vendor coverage ratings automatically. Flags stale mappings before they affect your posture.
Current stack coverage score — always.Monitors Federal Register, agency feeds, and NIST publications. Identifies affected controls. Flags clients for re-assessment before the next audit cycle.
Your program reflects today's requirements.Cross-references the CVE against client scan data. Identifies exposed organizations. Surfaces prioritized remediation directly in Sentinel.
Exposures identified before they ask.Monitors CISA advisories and FBI IC3 threat feeds. Updates training content to reflect the attack vectors currently targeting your industry.
Training reflects today's threats.Maps the delta between versions. Updates the crosswalk engine across all 14 frameworks. Flags controls requiring re-evaluation without manual intervention.
Framework currency maintained automatically.NY DFS 23 NYCRR Part 500 applies to insurance carriers, wholesalers, and independent agencies regardless of size. The regulation does not scale its requirements to your headcount — but your compliance program can scale to your resources.
Most organizations subject to NY DFS Part 500 are not large institutions with dedicated compliance teams. They are carriers, wholesalers, and agencies under 500 employees — with meaningful regulatory obligations and without the internal infrastructure to manage them continuously.
Pistos was designed by senior practitioners from Accenture, PwC, and EY — professionals who advised institutions such as JPMorgan Chase and American Express on cybersecurity compliance and who have worked at all three levels of the NY DFS regulatory relationship: advising large covered entities, building compliance programs inside mid-market firms, and working directly with DFS examiners. That methodology, delivered through a platform right-sized for your organization, is what Pistos brings to carriers, wholesalers, and agencies operating under Part 500.
Who we serve in insurance
Regulated organizations in financial services, healthcare, and defense face the same four problems — and most address them with four separate, disconnected tools.
Technology stacks are complex. Vendor CIS mappings go stale within months of a new release. No one has a current, unified view across the full environment.
Most regulated organizations face three to five overlapping frameworks. Treating each as a separate compliance program wastes resources and misses shared controls.
Examiners require current, documented evidence. A policy dated eighteen months ago and a scan from last quarter do not constitute a compliance program.
Regulations amend. Vendors release new versions. Threats evolve. No human team can monitor all three simultaneously without missing something consequential.
Anchored to CIS Controls v8.1 — the single framework that maps to all others. Implement one program. Satisfy many obligations.
Skopein
sko · pein
◆To examine. To look closely.
To see what others miss.
Skopein interrogates your actual environment rather than relying on what tools and vendor portals report about themselves. It reads what is actually configured — the stale admin account, the misconfigured email authentication record, the MFA gap that no dashboard surfaced — and maps every finding to the specific controls your frameworks require.
Scoped to the platforms in use by insurance carriers, wholesalers, and agencies: Microsoft 365, Active Directory, and external-facing posture including DNS, SSL/TLS, and email authentication.
Sentinel
sen · ti · nel
◆One who stands guard.
A watch against threat.
Compliance management platform tracking all applicable controls and evidence across every active framework simultaneously. AI monitors the regulatory landscape and updates control status automatically — so your program reflects current requirements, not the ones in effect when you built it.
Produces audit-ready CAM, CRB, and board-level reporting. Every control shows its evidence status, its regulatory citations, and when it was last verified.
Manthesis
man · the · sis
◆The act of learning.
Knowledge that protects.
45-module training library across three depth levels, with content updated to reflect current attack patterns sourced from CISA and FBI IC3 threat feeds. Training completion feeds directly into Sentinel evidence records.
Documented proof of workforce competency that satisfies examiner requirements — a defensible training record, not a checkbox.
Aegis
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◆Protection and authority.
A shield of oversight.
Fully managed vCISO service operating Sentinel, Skopein, and Manthesis on your behalf. Regulatory filing support, examiner preparation, board reporting, and annual risk assessment — backed by practitioners who have operated at every level of the regulatory relationship.
For organizations that need expert governance without building an internal security function from scratch.
Each client relationship is built on the same platform and the same practitioner methodology. The difference is who operates it.
Sentinel, Skopein, and Manthesis. Your organization operates the platform internally with Pistos-maintained AI currency across all frameworks and vendor mappings.
For organizations with internal IT or compliance staff seeking a purpose-built system that stays current automatically.
The full platform operated by Pistos vCISO. Includes regulatory filing support, examiner preparation, annual risk assessment, and board-level reporting.
For organizations without a dedicated security function that require expert governance and continuous compliance management.
Sentinel compliance records and Manthesis training delivered across your managed client base under the MSP relationship, with white-label options available.
For managed service providers serving regulated industry clients who need a compliance layer integrated into their existing service stack.
Tell us about your regulatory obligations and we will explain how Pistos addresses them — without the sales process.
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