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About Avertro

Pioneering Cyber Resilience Command

Avertro built the command layer that security leaders have been missing. CyberHQ® translates technical signals into board-ready intelligence, proves defensible resilience with evidence, and optimizes security-per-dollar with precision.

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The command layer the industry was missing

Cybersecurity is currently managed as a fragmented technical activity, not a strategic
business function. Leaders are drowning in tactical noise, lacking the command discipline
and unified governance needed to translate technical effort into quantifiable intelligence. This
leaves organizations unable to validate their defense, justify spend, or prove a state of
resilience with absolute confidence.

 

Avertro built CyberHQ® to solve this problem.

 

With CyberHQ®, organizations can transform technical signals into quantifiable, governance-ready intelligence, to validate cyber effectiveness, prove defensible resilience, and optimize security-per-dollar with absolute confidence.

75%

reduction in manual compliance effort

90%

reduction in compliance costs

100+

integrators & connectors

20+

supported compliance frameworks

A message from our CEO

The board asks critical questions: Are we truly resilient? Where should we invest next? What is our real financial exposure?

Security leaders rarely have a good answer, not because they don't know, but because there's no way to prove it. I saw this repeatedly as a Security Leader across my career. Every organization had the data. Every organization had the tools. None of them could connect the two in a way the business could act on.

GRC technology was supposed to fix this. It didn't. Security leaders are still running compliance theater while the actual state of their resilience stays invisible to the people who need to see it most.

That's why we built Avertro: not another tool, but a command layer that connects what your stack is producing and translates it into governance-ready intelligence every stakeholder can act on.

CyberHQ® is that platform. It's the command layer this category has been missing.

Ian Yip,
CEO & Founder, Avertro

Our Leadership

Headquartered in Australia, Avertro operates a rapidly expanding global footprint, delivering a cyber resilience command capability to organizations across the world. 

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Ian Yip

Chief Executive Officer

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Kimberley Holbrook Avertro

Kimberley Holbrook

Chief of Staff

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Blair Crawford Avertro

Blair Crawford

Chief Revenue Officer

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Olivia Conlon Avertro

Olivia Conlon

Head of Trust & Resilience

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Jack Shi Avertro

Jack Shi

Head of Engineering

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How We Operate

Our culture isn't what we say. It's how we act, how we decide, and how we treat each other and our customers. As we scale, these principles keep us grounded.

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Balanced Excellence

We strive to be world class in everything we do, holding ourselves to the highest levels of accountability. We prioritize data-driven, defensible excellence while fiercely protecting our team's well-being, and our customers. 

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Iterative Momentum

We move with speed by refusing to settle for the status quo, tackling the hardest problems first, precision, tenacity and resourcefulness. We move with speed and precision by embracing an iterative mindset.

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Absolute Integrity

We do the right thing for our customers and each other, even when no one is watching, and sure absolute authenticity and reliability in everything we build and every relationship we manage.

Validate Compliance Against the Threats That Actually Matter

Infinite Discovery

We foster a culture of constant learning and intellectual curiosity. We approach every challenge with a growth mindset, believing that our potential is expanded through a relentless desire to learn and evolve.

Automated Evidence Collection

Bold Conviction

We are market-first and problem-driven. We take measured risks and have the courage to be strategically opinionated, standing firmly behind what we build innovating boldly.

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Strategic Solidarity

We prioritize the collective mission above all else. We lean into constructive tension and open debate, but once a path is chosen, we move with the focused alignment needed to deliver a world-class experience together collaborating across boundaries.

What our customers Say

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CyberHQ®?

CyberHQ® is Avertro's Cyber Resilience Command Platform. It sits above your existing cybersecurity stack, connects your tools via API, and transforms fragmented data into a unified intelligence layer. As a result, it enables you to quantify risk, prioritize investments, and govern cyber as a strategic business function.

What is "Defensible Resilience"?

Avertro defines Defensible Resilience as moving away from point-in-time compliance checklists and subjective guesswork. Avertro enables organizations to prove their security posture to regulators, boards, and customers using live, continuous evidence. It ensures that every security decision and risk calculation is backed by clear, operational data that can withstand executive and regulatory scrutiny.

How does Avertro CyberHQ® support global regulatory compliance?

Avertro utilizes an Informed Cyber GRC approach to map an organization's security controls once and continuously validate them against multiple global regulations. It drastically reduces manual duplication by up to 75% for frameworks and mandates such as NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001, SOC 2, DORA, NIS2, the SOCI Act, and APRA CPS 234.

How does Avertro support a global footprint and multi-region governance?

Avertro's CyberHQ® supports complex global footprints through its scalable Workspace Architecture, which allows multinational enterprises to isolate data across distinct geographic regions, business units, or subsidiaries. While local teams manage localized risk trends, the platform automatically rolls up data to provide the global cybersecurity group with centralized, enterprise-wide visibility and governance.

Backed by its Master Control Framework (MCF), Avertro serves as a universal translator, enabling organizations to assess controls once and map them across a diverse library of international regulations—including ISO 27001, NIST CSF 2.0, DORA, NIS2, and the SOCI Act. 

What is "Security-per-Dollar"?

Security-per-Dollar is Avertro's core metric for connecting cybersecurity activities directly to financial and business outcomes. By translating technical threat scenarios into clear dollar exposure (using financial modeling and Monte Carlo simulations), the framework helps CISOs mathematically justify their security spend and show the exact financial return on investment (ROI) of their controls.

What is a Cyber Resilience Command Platform?

Cyber Resilience Command Platform is the intelligence layer that sits above your existing security ecosystem and unifies what your other tools cannot connect on their own. Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) tools quantify risk. GRC tools track compliance. Threat tools detect attacks. Exposure tools find vulnerabilities. But they remain disconnected. CyberHQ® solves the full problem, connecting risk, threat, compliance, and business-context impact to enable clear, business-informed decisions. It does not replace your tools. It makes sense of them.

See CyberHQ® configured to your environment

Book a 30-minute interactive session to see how CyberHQ® integrates with your existing tools, frameworks and environment.