Overview
The Business Assets Importance Ranking widget helps you identify which of your business assets carry the highest cyber risk. It combines key metrics — importance, likelihood, cost of breach, and exposure — so you can prioritize mitigation based on what matters most.
This article explains what each value means and how to use the widget to support informed decision-making.
How to Use the Widget
Click any business asset to open its full details on the Business Assets page:
From there, you can edit the asset’s properties or review connected findings:
What Each Column Means
Importance
A score between 1 and 10 that reflects how critical this asset is to your organization. Assets are sorted by importance from highest to lowest:
Likelihood
The probability (1%–100%) that this asset will be targeted in an attack.Red values indicate a likelihood over 50%.
This value is calculated from Hyver’s mitigation graph, based on active attack paths.
Fixing findings usually lowers the likelihood.
You'll also see a benchmark likelihood — the average value for similar organizations — shown next to your own value for default assets.
Note: Custom business assets (user-defined) do not include benchmark comparisons.
Cost of Breach (CoB)
The estimated financial damage if this asset is breached.Includes both direct and indirect costs (salaries, customer churn, sector data, etc.).
Some parts of CoB are dynamic (influenced by mitigation), while others remain static.
Exposure
The calculated risk for the asset:
Exposure = Likelihood × Cost of BreachHigh exposure values signal high urgency for mitigation.
Use this to prioritize remediation actions that offer the biggest risk reduction.
Important notes
If the business asset is a custom asset, Hyver does not provide industry benchmarks.
Likelihood values update as findings are marked Fixed — this reflects your real-time risk posture.
Exposure is updated dynamically and directly influenced by the accuracy of your asset inventory and attack path data.
Wrap-up / Next Steps
This widget makes it easier to focus on what matters most. Use the combination of exposure, likelihood, and business importance to decide where your next security effort should go.
You don’t need to mitigate everything at once — just start where the risk is highest and the value is clearest.