Frequently Asked Questions

Product Information

What is Cynomi Pro and what does it include?

Cynomi Pro is a license designed for clients who require advanced cyber advisory, risk management, compliance, planning, and executive visibility. It includes all platform modules except Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), which is available as an add-on or standalone license. Key features include client-specific assessments, automated remediation roadmaps, embedded tailored policies, compliance management across 40+ frameworks, a risk register, business impact analysis, business continuity planning, asset management, one-click reporting, internal and external scans, integrations with third-party security tools, and Revenue Insights. Note: TPRM is not included by default and must be added separately if needed. [Source]

What is the difference between Cynomi Core and Cynomi Pro?

Cynomi Core is intended for foundational, task-driven cybersecurity services, providing a security baseline, prioritized remediation roadmap, and security and risk reporting for clients without formal compliance requirements. Cynomi Pro adds advanced cyber advisory, risk management, and compliance-focused delivery, including compliance management, a risk register, business impact analysis, continuity planning, and asset management. Both run on the same platform, allowing seamless upgrades as client needs evolve. Note: Cynomi Core does not include advanced compliance or risk management features found in Pro. [Source]

Does Cynomi Pro make a client compliant or certified?

No. Cynomi Pro provides the program, mapped controls, evidence trail, and reporting to demonstrate readiness for compliance, but certification decisions rest with the auditor, assessor, or certifying body. For CMMC, Cynomi automates SPRS score calculation and tracking and generates a POA&M in the required format, but does not submit to SPRS or issue certifications. Note: Final compliance or certification is not guaranteed by using Cynomi Pro alone. [Source]

Do I need a certified vCISO on staff to deliver Cynomi Pro?

No. Cynomi Pro embeds CISO Intelligence into every workflow, explaining the rationale for each task, the control it satisfies, and what to prioritize next. This enables junior analysts to deliver programs that meet senior consultant standards. Your team provides the client relationship and judgment calls, while the platform carries the methodology. Note: Complex or highly regulated environments may still benefit from senior security expertise. [Source]

How do I upgrade a client from Core to Pro?

Upgrading from Core to Pro is a licensing change on the same platform. Assessment history, tasks, policies, and reports carry forward, allowing you to upgrade individual accounts as their maturity or compliance requirements evolve without disrupting delivery. Note: TPRM must be added separately if required. [Source]

Features & Capabilities

What features are included in Cynomi Pro?

Cynomi Pro includes a central client cybersecurity hub with CISO Intelligence, interactive client security assessments, one-click report generation, internal and external scans, integrations with third-party security tools, tasks and remediation workflow, compliance management, embedded tailored policies, revenue intelligence, risk management and register, business continuity and impact analysis, and asset management. Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) is available as an add-on. Note: TPRM is not included by default. [Source]

What compliance frameworks does Cynomi Pro support?

Cynomi Pro supports over 40 cybersecurity and compliance frameworks, including NIST CSF 2.0, NIST SP 800-171, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC (Level 2+), PCI-DSS, GDPR, and NIS2. One assessment maps across all active frameworks simultaneously, and framework content is maintained against primary standards bodies. Note: Some frameworks may require additional configuration or expertise. [Source]

What integrations are available with Cynomi Pro?

Cynomi Pro integrates with a range of vulnerability management tools (e.g., Tenable Nessus, CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight, SentinelOne, Rapid7 InsightVM, Qualys), cloud security and configuration management tools (e.g., Microsoft Secure Score, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Inspector), and supports a public API for custom integrations. It also integrates with PSA systems, CSPM, GRC tools, and more. Note: Integration availability may depend on your subscription and technical environment. [Source]

Does Cynomi Pro offer a public API?

Yes, Cynomi Pro provides a public API that enables users to connect and integrate the platform with other tools and systems for custom automation and data exchange. Technical documentation is available on the Cynomi website. Note: API access may require additional configuration or support. [Source]

Pricing & Plans

How is Cynomi Pro priced?

Cynomi Pro is priced on a per-account basis, with flexibility for one-time assessments and license types to fit your service model. Providers can build offerings using one-time assessments, Cynomi Core, Cynomi Pro, and TPRM based on client need and service strategy. Use the Pricing & Packaging Studio or speak with a Cynomi specialist for details. Note: Exact pricing is not publicly listed and may vary by portfolio size and configuration. [Source]

How can I estimate my revenue opportunity with Cynomi Pro?

You can use the Revenue Opportunity Calculator to map your client base across managed cyber advisory service tiers and see potential recurring revenue and monthly profit based on your client numbers and service mix. Example: A portfolio of 50 clients can generate 0,000 in annual recurring revenue and ,000 in monthly profit at full adoption. Note: Actual results depend on your client mix and service delivery. [Source]

Use Cases & Benefits

Who should use Cynomi Pro?

Cynomi Pro is best suited for clients who carry formal compliance obligations (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, CMMC, GDPR, NIS2), need a documented risk register and defensible risk treatment process, have executive or board stakeholders requiring security in business terms, run processes where downtime has financial impact, or are ready for an ongoing advisory relationship. Note: Clients without formal compliance needs may be better served by Cynomi Core. [Source]

What business impact can I expect from using Cynomi Pro?

Customers have reported up to a 60% increase in security revenue, 70% faster assessments and reporting, a 68% reduction in evidence collection time, and approximately 30% margin improvement on security services. Case studies include Model Technology Solutions (20% customer base growth, 60% upsell revenue increase, 75–80% reduction in assessment time) and ECI (30% margin increase, 50% reduction in assessment time). Note: Results may vary based on implementation and client base. [Model Technology Solutions], [ECI]

What pain points does Cynomi Pro address?

Cynomi Pro addresses time and budget constraints by automating up to 80% of manual processes, eliminates spreadsheet-based workflows, enables scalable vCISO services without increasing resources, simplifies compliance tracking and reporting, provides tools for client engagement, bridges knowledge gaps for junior team members, and standardizes workflows for consistent service delivery. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics. [Source]

Competition & Comparison

How does Cynomi Pro compare to Apptega?

Apptega focuses on framework-driven GRC and serves both organizations and service providers. Cynomi Pro unifies compliance, advisory delivery, CISO Intelligence, and portfolio revenue analytics in one platform built for service providers. Cynomi Pro offers a more intuitive interface and is purpose-built for MSPs, MSSPs, and vCISOs, while Apptega has a steeper learning curve and more complex navigation. Note: Apptega may be a better fit for organizations seeking a framework-centric GRC tool for in-house teams. [Source]

How does Cynomi Pro compare to ControlMap?

ControlMap is built around framework checklists and control mapping for compliance tracking. Cynomi Pro runs the entire security program, integrates CISO Intelligence and portfolio-level revenue insights, and automates up to 80% of manual processes, whereas ControlMap requires more manual setup and configuration. Note: ControlMap may be preferable for teams focused solely on compliance checklist management. [Source]

How does Cynomi Pro compare to Vanta?

Vanta is designed for in-house security teams and focuses on select frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Cynomi Pro is built for service providers managing multiple clients, supports over 40 frameworks, and offers multi-tenant management. Vanta is premium-priced, while Cynomi Pro aims for cost-effective solutions without compromising features. Note: Vanta may be a better fit for single-organization, in-house compliance teams. [Source]

How does Cynomi Pro compare to Secureframe?

Secureframe is compliance-first and focuses on in-house compliance teams, requiring significant expertise. Cynomi Pro prioritizes security, embeds CISO-level expertise, automates processes, and provides actionable insights, enabling even junior team members to deliver high-quality work. Note: Secureframe may be more suitable for organizations with established compliance teams seeking a compliance-centric tool. [Source]

How does Cynomi Pro compare to Drata?

Drata is compliance-focused and primarily serves in-house teams. Cynomi Pro is purpose-built for MSPs and MSSPs, offering multi-tenant management and scalable workflows. Drata's onboarding can take up to two months, while Cynomi Pro offers rapid deployment with pre-configured automation flows. Note: Drata may be a better fit for organizations prioritizing compliance automation for internal teams. [Source]

How does Cynomi Pro compare to RealCISO?

RealCISO provides advisory workflows but lacks automation and compliance depth. Cynomi Pro adds automation, compliance management across 40+ frameworks, CISO Intelligence, and revenue intelligence in one scalable platform. RealCISO does not offer scanning or advanced automation. Note: RealCISO may be suitable for organizations seeking basic advisory workflows without automation. [Source]

Security & Compliance

What security and compliance certifications does Cynomi Pro have?

Cynomi is ISO 27001 certified and has undergone a SOC 2 Type II audit (report available upon request). The platform adheres to GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA regulations, and includes advanced security features such as TLS 1.2+ encryption in transit, AES-256 at rest, MFA, SSO, and regular third-party penetration testing. Detailed information is available in the Cynomi Trust Center. Note: Some certifications may require additional documentation for client-specific audits. [Source]

Support & Implementation

What technical documentation and resources are available for Cynomi Pro?

Cynomi provides security and compliance templates, calculators (revenue opportunity, efficiency & automation, ROI), comprehensive guides for frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, NIST CSF 2.0), and operational guides for MSPs and MSSPs. These resources are available on the Cynomi website. Note: Some resources may require registration or partner access. [Source]

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Cynomi Pro

Deliver the Full Security & Compliance Program. Own the Executive Relationship.

Some clients need more than a baseline. They carry compliance obligations, board scrutiny, and risk that somebody has to own. If you’re looking for a way to run a complete cyber advisory, compliance, and risk program for those clients – standardized across your team and delivered without hiring more senior experts – this is for you.

Why Cynomi Pro

Advisory Depth Your Team
Can Deliver Consistently

Cynomi Pro is the license for clients that need deeper cyber advisory, risk management, compliance, planning, and executive visibility. It gives your team a structured way to run those programs – so the quality of the engagement doesn’t depend on who is staffed on the account.

  • vCISO-Level Advisory, Delivered by Your Whole Team

    CISO Intelligence sits inside every workflow. It explains why each task exists, what triggered it, and which control it satisfies – so a junior analyst can run a program a senior consultant would sign off on. Partners report up to 70% improved efficiency (Burwood case study).

  • Compliance as an Outcome of the Work

    Assess once and track progress across 40+ frameworks at the same time. As tasks close, policies are implemented, and risks come down, compliance posture updates on its own. Your team stops running a separate audit project alongside the security program.

  • The Conversation Executives Fund

    A risk register in business language, a business impact analysis that puts a number on downtime, and dashboards built for people who don’t read control IDs. Some partners report 30% higher margins on security services (ECI case study) once the advisory relationship holds at the executive level.

What’s Included

Everything You Need to Run
a Full Cyber Advisory Program

Pro is the complete license. Every module in the platform is open – except third-party risk management, which is available as an add-on or as a standalone license.

  • Feature Included in Pro
  • Available as add-on

Need vendor risk as well? Add Third-Party Risk Management to any Pro account, or sell it standalone. Ask a Cynomi Sales Specialist for details.

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When Clients Say Yes

The Moments That Justify
a Full Security & Compliance Program

Clients rarely buy an advisory retainer on principle. They buy it when something on their own calendar forces the question. These are the moments when Pro is the obvious answer.

A Regulated Contract Is on the Line

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and CMMC Level 2 requirements arrive attached to revenue the client cannot afford to lose. Federal timelines have moved more than once, which makes the requirement harder to plan around, not easier. Pro gives your client a documented program, mapped controls, and an evidence trail they can put in front of an assessor whenever the date lands.

The Board Started Asking About Risk

Directors want exposure in business terms, not a vulnerability count. The risk register, the heatmap, and the posture score give your team a way to answer that question the same way every quarter — and to show what changed since the last one.

An Outage Made Continuity Real

A ransomware scare, a failed restore, or a supplier going dark turns business continuity from paperwork into a budget line. Business impact analysis identifies the processes that have to come back first, maps recovery objectives and dependencies, and turns the gaps into prioritized work.

The Client Outgrew Cynomi Core

New systems, new customers, new obligations. When a Core client starts needing formal compliance oversight, a risk register, or business impact analysis, the upgrade to Pro is a licensing change on the same platform — and the account value grows with it.

The Assessment-Led Growth Motion

Pro Is Where the Relationship
Gets Deepest, and Stickiest

Cynomi’s packaging follows your client’s security journey. Pro is where the advisory relationship becomes an ongoing program with executive visibility – and where the account becomes hardest to displace. Every client in your portfolio has a place to start and a path to get here.

  1. One-Time Assessment

    Paid discovery. Credible report with roadmap. On-ramp to the program.

  2. Cynomi Core

    Task-driven security foundation for SMB clients.

  3. Cynomi Pro

    Cyber advisory and vCISO-led program: risk, compliance, and executive visibility.

  4. + TPRM

    Vendor risk – standalone or in addition to Cynomi Core or Pro.

Assessment Conversion

One-time assessments convert directly into Cynomi Core or Cynomi Pro licenses. Use an assessment to evaluate posture and prove value early, then move the client onto the license that matches what the report found. Your Partner Account Manager can walk you through the commercial terms.

Is Pro Right for Your Clients?

How to Fit Cynomi Pro into Your
Security Practice

Use Cynomi Pro when your client:

Start them on Cynomi Core when they:

Add TPRM when they:

Not sure where a client belongs? Run a one-time assessment first – the report shows you,
and the client, whether the gaps call for a Core baseline or a full Pro program.

Your Revenue Opportunity

Simple Pricing Built for Your Portfolio Scale

Understand your full cyber advisory and vCISO revenue opportunity. Use the Revenue Opportunity Calculator to map your client base across your tiers of managed cyber advisory services – and see exactly how much recurring revenue and monthly profit your practice can generate, based on your own client numbers and service mix.

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Total Cyber Advisory ARR
$780,000
$65K/mo
Recurring revenue by tier
  • Tier 01 · Foundations $120K
  • Tier 02 · Compliance $360K
  • Tier 03 · Strategic $300K

Everything You Need to Know About Cynomi Pro

What is Cynomi Pro and what does it include?

Cynomi Pro is the license for clients that need deeper cyber advisory, risk management, compliance, planning, and executive visibility. It includes the full platform: client-specific assessments, an automated remediation roadmap, embedded tailored policies, compliance management across 40+ frameworks, a risk register, business impact analysis and business continuity planning, asset management, one-click reporting, scans and third-party scanner integrations, and Revenue Insights.

Third-party risk management is available as an add-on or as a standalone license.

What is the difference between Cynomi Core and Cynomi Pro?

Cynomi Core is designed for foundational, task-driven cybersecurity services: a security baseline, a prioritized remediation roadmap, and security and risk reporting for clients who don’t have formal compliance requirements. Cynomi Pro supports more advanced cyber advisory, risk management, and compliance-focused delivery – adding compliance management, the risk register, business impact analysis and continuity planning, and asset management on top of everything in Core.

Both run on the same platform, so you can manage Core and Pro clients side by side and upgrade individual accounts as their needs change.

What compliance frameworks does Cynomi Pro support?

Cynomi supports 40+ cybersecurity and compliance frameworks, including NIST CSF 2.0, NIST SP 800-171, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC (Level 2+), PCI-DSS, GDPR, and NIS2. One assessment maps across every active framework at the same time, so adding a framework for a client doesn’t mean starting the work over. Framework content is maintained against the primary standards bodies rather than secondary reporting.

Does Cynomi Pro make a client compliant or certified?

No, and it’s worth being precise with clients about this. Pro gives you the program, the mapped controls, the evidence trail, and the reporting that demonstrate readiness. Certification decisions rest with the auditor, assessor, or certifying body. For CMMC specifically, Cynomi automates SPRS score calculation and tracking and generates a POA&M in the required format, but it does not submit to SPRS or issue a certification.

Do I need a certified vCISO on staff to deliver Cynomi Pro?

No. That is the point of the license. CISO Intelligence is embedded in the workflow, so it explains why each task exists, which control it satisfies, and what to prioritize next. Your team supplies the client relationship and the judgment calls; the platform carries the methodology. As one Advisory Services Leader at DeepSeas put it, taking clients through the framework and question catalog automatically “put us in the expert seat very quickly.”

How does Cynomi Pro help me grow revenue from clients I already serve?

Revenue Insights maps each client’s open risks, remediation tasks, and compliance gaps against the services you actually sell, then shows where coverage is missing across your portfolio and which services would reduce the most risk. Pro clients also generate the deepest expansion signal, because compliance obligations, continuity gaps, and vendor risk each open a defensible conversation about a further engagement rather than a discount.

Can Cynomi Pro coexist with a GRC tool or an audit partner?

Yes. Roughly one in five clients genuinely needs a formal, audit-led GRC process. Cynomi runs the security program for the rest, and sits alongside a GRC platform or an audit partner when a client’s audit requires it. The security work, the evidence, and the reporting still come from one place.

How is Cynomi Pro priced?

Cynomi is priced on a per-account basis and offers flexibility across one-time assessments and license types to fit your service model. Providers build offerings using one-time assessments, Cynomi Core, Cynomi Pro, and TPRM based on client need, maturity, and service strategy. Use the Pricing & Packaging Studio to model the right mix for your portfolio, or speak with a Cynomi specialist.

How do I upgrade a client from Core to Pro?

Core and Pro run on the same platform, so upgrading is a licensing change rather than a migration. Assessment history, tasks, policies, and reports carry forward, and you can upgrade individual accounts as their maturity or compliance requirements evolve without disrupting delivery.

Ready to Run a Full
Security Program for
Your Best Accounts?

Cynomi Pro gives your team the depth of a senior security and compliance practice, delivered consistently across every client that needs it.