Cyber Risk Management with Cyrisma (EP 1067)

Mark Balovnev, CEO of Cyrisma, joins the IT Business Podcast’s PitchIT 2026 series to discuss helping MSPs turn cyber risk and compliance into scalable services. Cyrisma consolidates vulnerability management, asset and data discovery, secure configuration, compliance tracking, and remediation workflows so providers can reduce tool sprawl and better operationalize security services.

Guest: Mark Balovnev

• Website: https://www.cyrisma.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbalovnev/

=== Chapters

• 00:00 Introducing Mark Balovnev and Cyrisma
• 02:21 Turning Risk Into Revenue
• 06:29 Defining Vulnerability Scope
• 08:58 Continuous Risk and Compliance
• 10:53 Consolidating the Security Stack
• 13:19 Mapping Compliance Frameworks
• 15:13 Why Cyrisma Drew Me In
• 17:08 Packaging Cyber Services
• 19:37 Closing the Pitch Session

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