The AI-native security & governance OS is
(almost) here.
The AI-native security and governance operating system. Designed by a 10x CISO and 3x MSSP creator, for security professionals tired of smoke and mirrors.
Visibility, mitigation, action, and accountability — from the boardroom, to the binary.
Back to Basics
Visibility. Actionability. Accountability.
You can’t protect what you can’t see — and most enterprises run three disagreeing inventories. The attacker’s is the only one that’s current.
- 01Ingest.OSINT workflows, discovery interviews, 200+ vendor integrations — all feeding our CMDB. Hardware, software, data, people, networks, identities, and more map into one continuously-updated organizational graph.
- 02Scope.Our system understands your organization — industry, size, regulatory exposure — and recommends the frameworks and controls that fit.
- 03Diagnose. Dozens of agents (with 52 mapped to the NIST NICE work roles) run your continuous gap analysis against those frameworks.
- 04Plan.One-click remediation plans based on live gaps, configurations, your tech stack, and your team’s strengths and weaknesses.
- 05Monitor.Real-time logging and alerting. Specialist hunt agents aligned with MITRE ATT&CK. Track configuration drift — with diffs and risk scoring.
From the boardroom, to the binary.
Fragmented governance, checkbox compliance, swivel-chair processes ... unification is long overdue.
The Platform
From the boardroom, to the binary.
Built for the whole team — CISO to analyst to the intern on day one.
Integrations
200+ integrations out of the box.
Your tools. Your pipelines. Your clouds. NecessityWorks drops in where your engineers already live — and the surface keeps growing.
AI-Native SAST. The first Youden above 0.9 in commercial SAST. Live today — rest of the platform rolls out through 2026. We caught the Trivy supply-chain attack 5 ways across the kill chain — code review, CI config, runtime behavior, behavioral SIEM, and identity. Legacy SAST saw valid bash.
The Why
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
A few years ago, a publicly traded company reached out to my team for Incident Response help. Thousands of endpoints — and backups — were bricked. The incident caused over $1B in economic damages, and just one of their clients missed their quarterly target by more than $200M because of the deliveries they never made.
We had a large team putting in long hours with little sleep, and their internal team even had multiple hospitalizations from the stress. I personally lost a mentor of mine to mental health issues during this incident.
Having worked for large vendors, I already knew the smoke-and-mirrors were blinding other CISOs from the real issues. But three of the Big 4 audit firms were entrenched with this client. And despite spending millions on fancy tools (DLP, XDR, you name it), a $300 solution and a focus on the basics would have prevented the whole thing. Enough already.
“I knew what I had to do wouldn’t be easy, but it was Necessary.”
This is when I decided that we — CISOs and operators — need a better way to discover, control, and communicate risk. A platform that gives visibility and actionability across the entire org; from the boardroom, to the binary.
So we built The CISO Who Doesn’t Sleep.
— RJ Friedman
Founder, NecessityWorks
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