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vCISO Lite Launches Preflight — Cyber Diligence Built for the Shape of a Venture Deal, With 20-Minute Red-Flag Scans, Term-Sheet Covenants Auto-Drafted From the Findings, and Portfolio-Wide LP-Letter Reporting

A cyber-diligence surface built for venture capital: pre-term-sheet red-flag scans that fit inside the partner meeting window, a covenant library reviewed quarterly with a tier-1 M&A firm, and a one-page LP-letter cyber section that regenerates every quarter — all on one subscription. Design-partner cohort open now.

Preflight is live in public beta today — a cyber-diligence surface built for how VCs actually work: 20-minute pre-investment scans, term-sheet covenants auto-drafted from the findings, and portfolio-wide LP-letter reporting on one subscription. Design partners receive free access through GA, input on the covenant library, and a lifetime discount on their first subscription tier.

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vCISO Lite Launches Trustworthy Autonomy™ — Autonomous Agents That Run Cyber Risk, Compliance, and Diligence Programs End-to-End, With Cryptographic Proof of Every Action

AI agents that run TPRM, audit prep, KRI monitoring, and M&A cyber diligence — with cryptographic proof of every action and a trust ladder that lets agents earn autonomy at their customers' pace.

The vCISO Lite platform now offers autonomous agents that run compliance programs end-to-end — with cryptographic proof for every action and a trust ladder that lets customers earn autonomy at their own pace.

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vCISO Lite Opens the Partner Program — Recurring Margin Up to 30% for VARs, GRC Implementers, MSPs, and Fractional-CISO Practices Whose Clients Need Software That Survives the Handoff

A channel program for the advisory firms whose clients need software that carries the load between engagements — sliding-scale recurring margin, deal-registration protection, co-selling support, and an operator-track white-label capability arriving Q4 2026.

The vCISO Lite Partner Program is open for applications today — sliding-scale recurring margin up to 30% on Enterprise, deal-registration protection, a partner portal, and operator-track white-label arriving Q4 2026.

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vCISO Lite Launches Allotrope — Forward-Looking Cyber Risk on One Dependency Graph, Priced in Dollars Before the Loss

The vCISO Lite risk-intelligence umbrella brings vendor-incident exposure (Refraction / DC-TPIR), operational resilience (Keystone / ORE), and continuous key risk indicators onto one dependency graph — so a KRI can trip a resilience scenario, a resilience scenario can raise a vendor alert, and the composition insight stops getting lost.

Allotrope unifies three forward-looking risk engines — Refraction (DC-TPIR), Keystone (ORE), and Continuous Indicators — on one dependency graph, so signals from one engine trip decisions in the others in real time. Generally available today on Business tier and above, with no separate SKU.

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vCISO Lite Launches Quantitative Cyber Diligence — Dollar-Denominated Cyber Cost of Deal for M&A, PE, and Investment Committees, Delivered in 72 Hours

A five-pillar diligence product for deal teams: Cyber Cost of Deal (CCOD) in dollars and as a percentage of enterprise value, defensible at the IC, comparable across a portfolio — Tier 1 external snapshot at $12,500, Tier 2 full engagement priced against target EV.

Quantitative Cyber Diligence (QCD) is live at diligence.vcisolite.com — a five-pillar, dollar-denominated M&A cyber-diligence product replacing the forty-page questionnaire with a Cyber Cost of Deal figure your IC can defend. Tier 1 external snapshot in 48 hours; Tier 2 full engagement in 72 hours.

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vCISO Lite Launches APRI™ — the MCP Surface for Risk Intelligence, With 82 Tools (Read and Write) and Claim-Grade verify-* Results No Other GRC MCP Returns

Roughly 82 MCP tools at mcp.vcisolite.com — read and write — with OAuth 2.1, PKCE, and Dynamic Client Registration. A 14-tool verify-* family returns provenance, freshness, and explicit unverifiable_reasons alongside every claim. Includes an in-app side-panel inside vCISO Lite Enterprise. The substrate Trustworthy Autonomy™ runs on.

APRI™ (AI-Powered Risk Intelligence) is live for vCISO Lite — ~82 MCP tools, read and write, at mcp.vcisolite.com and inside the in-app APRI side-panel on Enterprise, with claim-grade verify-* results (provenance, freshness, unverifiable_reasons) returned alongside every call. Generally available today; consumption is gated by vCISO Lite plan tier.

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vCISO Lite Ships Enterprise-Defensible Diligence Rooms — Ed25519 Deletion Certificates, Isolated Document Viewer, and Two-Stage Watermarking for Growing Companies Handing Cyber Materials to Acquirers, LPs, and Investors

The v2.0 hardening release replaces every component a general counsel could reasonably object to: RFC 7515 Ed25519 JWS deletion certificates anyone can independently verify against a public key, a Guacamole-based viewer that keeps raw document bytes out of the reader's browser, two-stage watermarking that identifies which specific reader saw a leaked page, and ephemeral per-room storage buckets that don't survive close. Live today on Business tier and above, no separate SKU.

vCISO Lite Diligence Rooms v2.0 is live on Business tier and above — Ed25519 deletion certificates, a Guacamole-based isolated viewer, two-stage watermarking, and ephemeral per-room storage. The surface growing companies use to hand cyber materials to acquirers, LPs, and investors with cryptographic guarantees the material won't leak.

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vCISO Lite Launches the Investor Portal — a Scoped, Revocable, Audited Channel for Growing Companies Handing Security Materials to Investors, LPs, and Lenders

Included on vCISO Lite Business tier and above. Growing companies use it to give investors, LPs, and lenders scoped read access to policies, DD interview content, and posture summaries — with magic-link + one-time-code sign-in, per-document view analytics, real-time revocation, and every access recorded in the platform's audit trail.

The vCISO Lite Investor Portal is live today on Business tier and above — a scoped, revocable, audited channel for growing companies handing security materials to investors, LPs, and lenders. Included in the plan, no separate SKU.

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vCISO Lite Launches — Policy Generation, Compliance Audit Support, and Vendor Risk Management for Growing Companies That Can't Afford a Full-Time CISO

Founder Yolonda Smith launches vCISO Lite with a live MVP built on a single premise she tested across 20 years of cybersecurity leadership: growing companies need roughly 80% of what a CISO delivers, at 5% of the cost. Available today at $299 per month, self-serve.

vCISO Lite launches today with an MVP covering policy generation, compliance audit support, and vendor risk management — the operational security work enterprise buyers ask about, priced at $299 per month for growing companies that can't hire a full-time CISO.

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