Transform Cyber Exposure into Board-Level Intelligence
Your board needs answers, not alerts. Qatalis Real-time Monitoring delivers decision-grade cyber risk intelligence that answers the critical regulatory question: “What did you know, when did you know it, and what did you do?”
Benefits: Why Continuous Monitoring Matters for Your Board
Regulatory Compliance on Demand
Hong Kong’s Cap. 653 requires 12-hour incident reporting and annual cybersecurity assessments, while EU DORA mandates 24-hour initial reports and 72-hour interim notifications. Real-time monitoring provides the continuous visibility required to meet these aggressive timelines—without emergency scrambles or weekend firefights.
End Board Overestimation of Preparedness
Recent research shows 71% of executives believe cyber funding is adequate, yet only 39% characterize their board’s understanding as proactive. Real-time monitoring closes this dangerous perception gap by surfacing actual exposure data—not assumptions—giving boards the ground truth they need for effective governance.
Time-Stamped Accountability Trail
Every exposure detected is automatically time-stamped and archived for up to 52 weeks. When auditors ask what you knew and when, you have audit-ready evidence in minutes, not weeks of retroactive documentation. This transforms compliance from a periodic burden into continuous proof of oversight.
Predictive Intelligence, Not Just Detection
While competitors focus on past incidents, Qatalis monitors 7-30 day predictive signals across media, policy shifts, and threat landscapes. Your board sees emerging risks before they become regulatory violations or reputational crises—enabling proactive decision-making instead of reactive damage control.
Resource Efficiency for Stretched Teams
More than 76% of CISOs view regulatory fragmentation as a major impediment to compliance. Real-time monitoring consolidates external risk signals from OSINT, dark web, media, patents, and data leaks into a single executive dashboard—eliminating the need for multiple vendor tools and manual correlation.
How It Works: The D3C Engine Behind Continuous Monitoring
Data-Driven Decision-Making Capability (D3C)
Real-time monitoring operates through Qatalis’s D3C architecture—a modular platform that separates data collection from analysis and reporting:
1. AI-Powered Collection Plugins
Multiple AI plugins continuously scan external data sources:
- OSINT Plugin: Web intelligence, news media, social signals
- Dark Web Plugin: Credential leaks, threat actor forums, ransomware discussions
- Patent & Legal Plugin: Competitive intelligence, regulatory filings, litigation signals
- Supply Chain Plugin: Third-party vendor exposures, network dependencies
Each plugin operates independently, using multi-AI validation (Gemini, Claude, OpenAI) to reduce false positives and hallucination risk.
2. Qatalis PESTEL+ Algorithm
The proprietary Qatalis Algorithm analyzes collected data through six strategic dimensions:
- Political: Regulatory narratives, policy debates, enforcement signals
- Economic: Market sentiment, investor perception, financial impacts
- Social: Trust indicators, reputation shifts, stakeholder discourse
- Technological: Innovation signals, adoption patterns, technology risks
- Environmental: ESG narratives, sustainability exposure, climate risk
- Legal: Compliance signals, legal framework changes, liability patterns
This analysis identifies not just events, but the motives and cause-effect chains behind them—answering why exposures matter, not just that they exist.
3. Consolidation & Trend Engine
Results feed into time-series analysis that generates:
- Qualitative Insights: Motive analysis, narrative shifts, weak signal interpretation
- Quantitative Metrics: Volume trends, sentiment ratios, risk indices, time-series forecasting
4. Executive Delivery Layer
Role-specific dashboards present findings in decision-grade formats:
- CEO Dashboard: Strategic risk exposure, reputational trends, competitive intelligence
- CFO Dashboard: Financial impact quantification, insurance implications, compliance costs
- CISO Dashboard: Technical vulnerability mapping, incident correlation, remediation priorities
- Board Dashboard: Compliance status, audit-ready evidence, governance metrics
All outputs are timestamped, traceable to source data, and exportable for regulatory filing.
Use Case: Hong Kong Financial Institution Prepares for Cap. 653 Enforcement
The Challenge
A mid-sized Hong Kong wealth management firm faced the January 1, 2026 enforcement of Cap. 653 with limited internal resources. Penalties for non-compliance range from HKD 500,000 to HKD 5,000,000, plus daily fines for continuing breaches. The firm’s CISO knew their current quarterly security reviews wouldn’t meet the 12-hour incident reporting requirement, and their board had no visibility into external data exposure.
The Implementation
Qatalis Real-time Monitoring deployed in October 2025:
- Week 1-2: AI plugins configured to scan Hong Kong media, financial regulatory databases, dark web forums, and supply chain vendor exposures
- Week 3: Initial baseline established showing three previously unknown data exposures: employee credentials on a breach forum, sensitive client research exposed via misconfigured cloud storage, and a third-party vendor security incident
- Ongoing: Daily automated scanning with role-specific dashboards for CISO, CFO, and Board
The Outcome
By January 1, 2026, the firm demonstrated:
- 52 weeks of continuous monitoring data—proving ongoing cybersecurity assessment as required by Cap. 653
- Detection latency of 2.1 hours—well within the 12-hour reporting window
- Time-stamped remediation records for all identified exposures—showing documented action on detected threats
- Board-level accountability trail—quarterly board reports showing consistent oversight and response
When the Commissioner’s Office requested their annual cybersecurity assessment in Q2 2026, the firm provided audit-ready evidence in 15 minutes. The CISO reported: “Instead of spending three weeks preparing for regulatory audits, we now spend 15 minutes exporting our continuous monitoring data. The board finally understands our cyber posture in business terms, not technical jargon.”
Business Impact
- Avoided potential HKD 5M penalty by demonstrating proactive compliance
- Reduced cyber insurance premium by 22% with documented detection capability
- Prevented client data breach that would have cost estimated HKD 18M in regulatory fines and reputation damage
- Board meeting preparation time reduced from 8 hours to 20 minutes per quarter
