Our Mission

To equip global boards with advanced education and cutting-edge technology, enabling them to effectively fulfill their fiduciary duty of care.

 

Let our simplicity solve your complexity

Building on our 30 years of experience certifying nonprofits, operating funds, and retirement plans in compliance with global fiduciary standards based on ISO 19011:2018 Guidelines for Auditing Management Systems, we are excited to announce the upcoming launch of “VeriDuty™ (patent-pending) an Agentic AI platform providing global boards with auditable evidence of ongoing compliance with NIST Cybersecurity and AI Governance practices.

While existing technical standards such as ISO 27001, NIST 2.0, and AI RMF effectively guide operational aspects of cybersecurity, VeriDuty takes a novel, non-technical approach tailored to support board members. It focuses on enabling boards to meet their fiduciary governance responsibilities with confidence and clarity.

Integrating cybersecurity and AI risk into overall enterprise risk management presents a unique and evolving challenge for boards. Addressing this requires an intelligent, adaptable, and comprehensive solution that empowers boards to demonstrate continuous oversight and adherence to best practices. VeriDuty  is designed to fill this critical need.

What benefits would such a resource provide?

Ensure compliance with industry best practices, while also maintaining a continuous audit mechanism to log the “who,” “what,” “when,” and “where” of any fiduciary duty breaches, reporting promptly to the designated individual or committee.

Why Diogenes?

We are dedicated to redefining the status quo by developing tools that empower board members and trustees to better comprehend and actively fulfill their fiduciary responsibilities. Our approach is firmly grounded in classical principles of integrity and normative deontological ethics, which emphasize evaluating the morality of actions based on their intrinsic rightness or adherence to established rules, rather than their outcomes.

What is the problem?

Cyber and AI risk are an integral component of both corporate and enterprise risk. Effectively understanding and monitoring these risks necessitates a paradigm shift—one that emphasizes the integration of sound business judgment with rigorous quantitative assessments.

What is our solution?

VeriDuty enhances traditional data management by leveraging human intelligence using Causal AI to assess compliance to board – level NIST governance best practices.


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Our recent blog articles

2024-11-07 in Uncategorized

Helping staff and board members better communicate about cybersecurity

A critical gap for many organizations is that board members—those bearing ultimate fiduciary responsibility—often lack the expertise to fully assess whether the technical practices implemented by the CISO adequately support…
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2022-08-16 in Company news, Governance

Augmented Intelligence for Monitoring Enterprise Cyber Risk

In this post I explore the concept of “Augmented Intelligence” (which I have dubbed “AugI”) and how it can support board members in meeting their fiduciary duty of care regarding…
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2022-04-04 in Company news, Education, Governance

Cybersecurity for enterprise boards is multidimensional

In a post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance titled “Cybersecurity: An Evolving Governance Challenge”, the authors highlighted the following three main issues. I have added a…
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2021-05-11 in Education, Governance

Three lessons for boards and trustees from the Colonial Oil ransomware case

The Colonia Oil debacle was catastrophic by itself. Suppose the bad actors had shut down the entire electrical grid at the same? Suppose they could have compromise access to the…
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2021-03-03 in Company news

We have updated the description of our company’s ethical posture

The discussion about ethics has exploded on the web, particularly in the context of facial recognition and Facebook’s use of personal information. In doing a complete revision of our website,…
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2021-02-26 in Education, Governance

Cybersecurity risk, fiduciary liability and how to manage them from a Board’s perspective.

In this blog post, I will share my thoughts on why cyber risk is considered a board level fiduciary responsibility, the need for a globally sourced set of board level…
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