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Stay ahead of compliance and regulatory demands with Tigercat Cyber, your trusted partner for independent reporting, cybersecurity risk management, and compliance.

Why Tigercat Cyber?

Tigercat Cyber was founded in response to a critical industry need and a noticeable gap. Our clients in regulated industries frequently express the following frustrations:

  • Obtaining comprehensive, actionable intelligence on your entire IT environment is a cumbersome task. By the time we receive the information, we are already facing significant issues.
  • The process of generating reports is resource-intensive and overly complex, making it difficult for our non-technical leadership, board members, and regulators to understand.
  • Although vendors often propose their reporting solutions, none offer a comprehensive, unified view of the entire environment.
  • Our existing reporting tools are poorly integrated, complicating and prolonging the internal aggregation of information.
  • We lack the bandwidth and staffing necessary to address these challenges on our own, as our primary focus is on running our business.

From Weeks to Minutes: Tigercat Cyber Delivers Comprehensive Reports at Lightening Speed!

This sentiment was repeatedly expressed to one of our founders, Steve Francesco, who was compelled to address it. He created what we now know as the Tigercat Cyber Reporter. With his background in the financial services industry, Steve understood the crucial need to not only be compliant in a regulated environment but also to have a comprehensive view of his organization’s cybersecurity posture and the health of its IT environment.

His experience in successfully running and selling a cybersecurity company provided him with direct insights into the needs and challenges faced by his clients in regulated industries and specifically, financial services. Then, when the AI came on the scene, his clients expressed a desire to have their reporting leverage advanced AI-enhanced analytics.

In response, the platform he created employs visualization techniques that extracts data insights that go beyond traditional business intelligence. It enhances cybersecurity threat monitoring, ensures faster response times, and supports better decision-making. The reporting tool we call Tigercat Cyber Reporter consolidates all of this necessary information for complete visibility—not only for internal stakeholders but also for boards, investors, regulators and compliance officers who require accountability.

Steve recognized that for maximum impact, the reporting tool should be accessible not only to individual clients but
also to MSPs, MSSPs, resellers and the broader ecosystem. Tigercat Cyber welcomes resellers and enables them to enhance their customers’ IT visibility and gain actionable insights into the environments they manage.

We provide intelligence across all protective technologies in your IT environment, ensuring robust data analytics for informed cybersecurity decisions.

Steve recognized that for maximum impact, the reporting tool should be accessible not only to individual clients but also to MSPs, MSSPs, and the broader ecosystem. This would enable all parties to enhance their IT visibility and gain actionable insights into their environments. Consequently, the Tigercat Cyber Reporter is offered both as a 'powered by Tigercat' model for value-added resellers and as a direct deployment to clients, ensuring widespread availability and utility.

Experience Unrivaled Cybersecurity Vigilance and threat detection with Tigercat Cyber!

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Why did we name our company Tigercat Cyber?

Tigercat Cyber, named after the formidable Grumman F7F Tigercat, embodies the essence of vigilance, speed, and
precision in cybersecurity reporting.

Just as the Grumman F7F Tigercat was an advanced fighter aircraft that provided unmatched air superiority against air and land threats when introduced, Tigercat Cyber offers unparalleled insights into the cybersecurity landscape, ensuring businesses maintain a superior stance against digital and cyber threats.

The Grumman F7F Tigercat fighter was renowned for its exceptional performance, capable of quickly responding to threats with its advanced technology for its time that set new standards in aerial combat. Similarly, Tigercat Cyber utilizes cutting-edge, automated technology to provide rapid, comprehensive analyses of an organization's cybersecurity posture and IT infrastructure. This swift, thorough assessment mirrors the Tigercat F7F’'s capability to rapidly assess and dominate the battlefield.

Furthermore, the Grumman F7F Tigercat was a symbol of safety and reliability for its pilots, providing robust protection in the skies.

Analogously, Tigercat Cyber serves as a digital guardian for businesses, offering a consolidated, current view of
cybersecurity health that is actionable and compliance-ready. This independent, third-party reporting, devoid of
conflicts of interest, ensures businesses can trust the integrity and accuracy of the intelligence provided, much like the trust placed in the Grumman F7F Tigercat fighter during critical missions.

Ultimately, the name Tigercat Cyber is not just a nod to a piece of aviation history; it’s a commitment to delivering
cybersecurity solutions with the same speed, efficiency, and reliability that the Grumman F7F Tigercat fighter was celebrated for.

Tigercat Cyber provides a strategic advantage in the digital age, empowering businesses to navigate the complex cybersecurity landscape with confidence and precision, with comprehensive, easily integrated, and user-friendly solutions.

Founders & Board of Directors

The three-legged stool of this timely and cutting edge company are our three Founders, as listed below. They deliver decades of C-suite level experience and expertise in regulated environments, cybersecurity, P/E, investment banking, and business operations.

Steve Francesco

Co-Founder & CEO

Steve brings over 30 years of experience in financial services, information technologies, and telecommunications. Steve has both a financial services corporate background in addition to a successful entrepreneurial track record. He started his career at Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, founded SmartServ Online, Inc. and facilitated growth while serving in C-suite positions for Netrix Corporation and Essential Reality, among others. Most recently, Steve transformed Cohere from a VoIP provider to a full-service cyber security consulting firm, ultimately selling it to Dataprise in 2023. Steve is the architect and brains behind Tigercat Cyber’s Reporting Solution.

Whit Williams

Co-Founder & Board of Director

Whit Williams is 25-year finance executive and an investor in tech, media and telecom companies. Whit has an acute sense of need for the CSA product as a board member and investor with numerous portfolio companies.

Elliot (Skip) Stein

Co-Founder & Board of Director

Elliot Stein is an investor/executive. He is Chairman of Acertas, LLC and Senturion Forecasting, LLC, two predictive modeling data analytics companies. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of BellRing Brands, Inc., MidCap Financial Investment Corporation, as well as two debt funds managed by Apollo Global Management. All of these companies are public. He is also a director of Middle Market Apollo Institutional Private Lending which is privately owned. He has been an officer and director of other private companies in several industries. Mr. Stein is a member of the Board of Trustees of The New School University and Claremont Graduate University as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Board of Advisors

Our Board of Advisors delivers industry and client subject matter expertise and ensures that Tigercat Cyber is responding to--and ahead of--technology and cybersecurity trends, and that the operations of the company continue to be agnostic and value-based.

Cyrus Miryekta

Founder & CEO of Ravelin US, a company that enables innovators to identify and disrupt foreign ownership, control, and influence (FOCI) issues as well as to navigate the USG compliance in the rapid acquisition ecosystem. He is on the board of four dual-use startups and consults for several others. Prior to Ravelin, Miryekta spearheaded DoD’s counterintelligence in Silicon Valley from 2014-21 and was with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). A plank holder from DIU, he broke a 70-year run of USG CI support via fiat by leveraging the trust, patriotism, and openness of Americans as the foundation of a whole-of-country approach to protecting America’s soft tech underbelly.

Justin Freeh

An executive leader with broad private sector experience in operations, finance and legal matters at early stage, growth stage and publicly traded company subsidiaries. Previous investment management experience at a Private Equity group, with a dual use, technology centric, investment portfolio.

Advisory board member experience with privately held, middle market companies, focusing on strategic growth, corporate governance and compliance. Venture Partner at a defense tech, national security focused, Venture Capital Firm.

Honorably discharged from Active Duty Service in the United States Navy, after completing multiple deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Served in the company of heroes. Member of the Bar in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Tireless supporter of Veteran’s initiatives.

Alain Farrelly

Alain is an Investment Officer and Head of Hedge Fund Due Diligence at Morgan Stanley, with extensive and diverse experience in the asset management industry. He has a keen understanding of financial markets, sophisticated investment strategies and portfolio construction used to promote thoughtful asset allocation decisions, identify business development opportunities and provide actionable investment advice to institutional, private wealth management and family office investors.

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