An interactive estimator based on third-party research from Chainguard, IBM / Ponemon, Mandiant, and Verizon. Every number traces back to published industry data — not vendor claims.
Triage, patching, validation, documentation, and reporting on vulnerabilities in open source and container dependencies. Every hour spent here is engineering capacity not going toward product.
AI-generated code contains vulnerabilities at 2.74x the human rate and credential exposure at ~2x baseline. Your CVE remediation workload is growing faster than headcount can absorb.
EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting obligations begin September 11, 2026. 24-hour CSIRT notification, 72-hour triage, 14-day patch reporting. Penalties scale as a percentage of global revenue.
A conservative 30–50% reduction against your baseline — engineering time recaptured from CVE triage and remediation.
Every 1 percentage point reduction in supply-chain-origin breach probability is worth $49K in expected loss avoidance.
Continuous SBOMs, VEX, and provenance remove procurement friction that commonly stalls regulated enterprise deals. Security questionnaires answered in hours, not days.
Continuous SBOM, VEX, and provenance artifacts generated as a by-product — not a quarterly fire drill.
Cumulative DIY cost over three years, before risk and compliance exposure. This is the number your CFO is already paying.
Chainguard Cost of CVEs 2025 · Chainguard 2026 Engineering Reality Report · IBM / Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach 2025 (20th annual, 600 breached organizations, 17 industries, 16 countries) · Mandiant / Google Threat Intelligence Group M-Trends 2026 · Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2025 · Sonatype 2026 State of the Software Supply Chain · Manifest Beyond the Black Box 2026 · Black Duck 2026 Open Source Security & Risk Analysis.
CVE remediation baseline scales the Chainguard $2.1M industry average using a developer-count factor anchored to the 5,000–10,000 developer enterprise cohort in Chainguard's underlying research. Industry multipliers reflect Chainguard's published per-segment cost breakdowns (Consumer & Commerce highest at ~$3.0M, Telecom lowest). Geography multipliers reflect the IBM / Ponemon US-vs-global breach cost differential ($10.22M US vs. $4.44M global). Ranges and estimates, not guarantees. For production business case work, Kusari can produce a customer-specific TCO analysis during the proof-of-value phase.
A Kusari proof-of-value takes two weeks. Most teams see their supply chain blind spots in the first session.