Aurora™
Normalize. Score. Quantify. Optimize.
Aurora™ is Mercury’s proprietary scoring and quantification engine — transforming normalized asset, control, risk, and business-context intelligence into defensible, near-real-time risk scores. Using Mercury’s proprietary methodology, Aurora helps organizations understand where risk exists, what is driving it, and where action can create the greatest business impact.
From Evidence to Defensible Risk Intelligence
Aurora receives normalized intelligence from across the Mercury platform and applies Mercury’s methodology to calculate, contextualize, and continuously refine enterprise risk. The result is risk intelligence grounded in evidence, control performance, asset value, and business context.
Create Comparable Risk Intelligence
Aurora brings structured risk inputs into a consistent scoring model so different technologies, controls, findings, assets, obligations, and business contexts can be evaluated on a comparable basis.
Apply Mercury Methodology
Mercury’s scoring methodology applies asset value, control effectiveness, exposure, business impact, and contextual factors to produce numeric and explainable risk scores.
Measure Risk That Matters
Aurora quantifies risk at the individual risk, asset, business process, domain, and enterprise level — allowing organizations to understand both individual exposures and accumulated risk.
Prioritize by Business Impact
Aurora connects risk to business value so leaders can prioritize remediation and investment based on the risk reduction and value protection each action can deliver.
How Aurora Produces Defensible Risk Intelligence
Aurora combines asset intelligence, control effectiveness, risk conditions, business impact, and organizational context within Mercury’s methodology to calculate risk in a consistent and explainable way.
Asset & Business Intelligence
A.D.A.M.™ provides normalized intelligence about the organization’s assets, products, processes, technologies, people, relationships, and business context — establishing what matters and why it matters.
Controls Intelligence from ACET™
ACET™ provides evaluated control intelligence, including implementation, effectiveness, evidence, gaps, and related findings. Aurora incorporates actual control performance into its risk calculations rather than relying solely on assumed control states.
Mercury Risk Scoring
Aurora applies Mercury’s proprietary methodology across the available intelligence — combining exposure, asset value, control effectiveness, business impact, and contextual factors to calculate explainable risk scores.
Enterprise Risk Intelligence
Aurora produces risk intelligence that can be analyzed at the individual risk, asset, business process, domain, and enterprise level — supporting prioritization, remediation, reporting, and executive decision-making.
From Inherent Risk to Residual Risk
Aurora evaluates the risk that exists before controls, incorporates actual control effectiveness, and calculates the resulting residual risk. This creates a defensible connection between the underlying risk, the controls intended to manage it, and the risk that remains — giving leaders a clearer basis for deciding where additional action or investment is warranted.
One Engine. Multiple Risk Domains.
Aurora applies a consistent risk methodology across multiple enterprise risk domains, helping leaders understand interconnected risk rather than relying on separate, isolated assessments.
Cyber Risk
Evaluate vulnerabilities, threats, attack exposure, security control performance, and potential business impact in the context of the assets and services at risk.
Technology Risk
Analyze technology dependencies, infrastructure, architecture, resilience, lifecycle conditions, and other technology risks in relation to business operations.
Compliance Risk
Connect regulatory and policy obligations to controls, evidence, findings, and business context to understand where compliance exposure creates meaningful enterprise risk.
Operational Risk
Evaluate process failures, third-party dependencies, people-related risks, physical impacts, and other operational conditions within the same risk framework.
Risk Intelligence for Every Decision Maker
CISO / CRO
Present defensible risk positions to executives and boards using evidence-based scoring tied to actual business context.
Risk & GRC Teams
Move beyond isolated qualitative assessments with connected, evidence-driven risk intelligence across the organization.
CFO / Finance
Understand where risk threatens business value and make more informed decisions about remediation, investment, and priorities.
Internal Audit
See risk in the context of actual control performance, supporting more focused audit planning and stronger evidence-based analysis.
Compliance
Connect obligations, controls, evidence, findings, and risk to understand where compliance issues create meaningful exposure.
Boards & Executives
Receive clear, business-aligned risk intelligence through Executive Dashboards to support informed strategic decisions.
From Enterprise Data to Executive Decisions
Aurora sits at the analytical core of the Mercury platform. A.D.A.M.™ creates the normalized enterprise intelligence foundation. ACET™ evaluates and validates control performance. Aurora applies Mercury’s scoring methodology to transform that intelligence into quantified risk. Executive Dashboards then make the results understandable, actionable, and decision-ready.
A.D.A.M.™
Aggregate • Discover
Analyze • Measure
ACET™
Validate • Verify
Assure • Track
Aurora™
Normalize • Score
Quantify • Optimize
Executive Dashboards
Visualize • Monitor
Prioritize • Decide
See How Mercury Transforms Risk Decisions
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