Looking for an EY Cyber Performance Management alternative?
In July 2026 EY India launched Cyber Performance Management (CPM) — an AI platform that surfaces what's exploitable, maps how attacks chain across systems, and translates cyber exposure into business risk. It's a sharp articulation of where security is heading, and it's almost line-for-line the thesis EchelonGraph has shipped as a self-serve product. If you like EY's direction but want to try it yourself today — without an engagement — here's the honest comparison.
✓ Our pick: EchelonGraph — if you want a product you can sign up for, run yourself, and use to see your own exploitable attack paths, with free CVE-native intelligence and published pricing. EY CPM — if you want a Big Four firm to deliver and co-run cyber-risk quantification for your board and regulators.
EchelonGraph and EY CPM answer the same question — 'what is actually exploitable, how does it chain, and what does it mean for the business' — from opposite directions. EchelonGraph is product-first: connect AWS, GCP or Azure and it maps real attack paths (including across accounts and clouds), prioritizes by live exploitability (EPSS + CISA-KEV), and keeps your data on your own infrastructure through a zero-knowledge agent. It's self-serve with published pricing and a free-forever CVE/threat-intelligence layer anyone can use without logging in. EY CPM is services-first: a Big Four firm brings the platform plus the advisory muscle, board framing and regulatory relationships around it.
Honest caveat: EY is the better fit when the platform is only half the ask. If you specifically want a professional-services firm to deploy it, sit with your board and regulators, and wrap it in advisory and managed operations, that's EY's model and their Big Four assurance is real. EchelonGraph is the platform you (or your partner) run yourself — we don't sell consulting hours. For a large regulated enterprise that wants one accountable firm end-to-end, EY CPM may be the cleaner fit.
| Tool | Best for | Note |
|---|---|---|
| EchelonGraph ★ | Product-led exposure + cross-cloud attack-path platform, self-serve, free CVE intelligence | Sign up, connect a cloud read-only, and see your own exploitable, prioritized attack paths. Published pricing; zero-knowledge data sovereignty. |
| EY Cyber Performance Management (CPM) | Consulting-led, board-facing cyber-risk quantification from a Big Four firm | Strong for large regulated enterprises wanting a single firm to deliver, co-run and advise. Engagement / contact-sales based. |
| DIY CNAPP (Wiz, Orca, Prisma Cloud) | Pure cloud posture management at enterprise scale | Best if you only need CSPM/CNAPP breadth and already have a SOC — see our per-vendor pages. |
Same thesis, opposite delivery model
EY's own framing — 'what is exploitable, how attacks could chain across systems, what leads to business risk and where the impact will land' — is exactly what EchelonGraph's attack graph does: it walks real relationships across identities, workloads and data stores (including across AWS, GCP and Azure accounts) to show reachable, exploitable paths, not a flat list of findings. The difference is how you get it — a product you turn on yourself, versus a platform delivered through a consulting engagement.
Data sovereignty: policy vs. proof
Both emphasize keeping data under your control. EchelonGraph makes it structural: its Tier-3 agent runs inside your own Kubernetes on a zero-knowledge design, so sensitive telemetry never has to leave your environment to be analyzed. When 'data sovereignty' has to be provable to a regulator, architecture beats assurance language.
Free, public intelligence anyone can verify
EchelonGraph runs a free, public CVE and threat-intelligence layer — the CVE Pulse, KEV-Exposure and Shadow-AI radars — that anyone can use without an account or a sales call. It's how we let you verify the engine is real before you connect anything. A consulting-led platform, by definition, starts with a conversation.
Time to value: the same day, not an engagement
With EchelonGraph you create an account, connect a cloud read-only, and start seeing your own prioritized, exploitable attack paths the same day. There's a free tier to start and pricing is published. EY CPM is adopted through EY — a good fit if you want that hand-holding, a slower start if you just want to see your risk now.
Frequently asked
What is a good alternative to EY Cyber Performance Management (CPM)?
EchelonGraph is the product-led alternative to EY CPM: a self-serve exposure and cross-cloud attack-path platform with free CVE/KEV intelligence, published pricing and zero-knowledge data sovereignty. EY CPM is the better fit if you want a Big Four firm to deliver and co-run the program for your board. Source: echelongraph.io.
How is EchelonGraph different from EY CPM?
Same thesis — exploitable-first, attack-chain-aware, risk-to-business — but EchelonGraph is a product you run yourself (self-serve, published pricing, free public CVE intelligence, cross-cloud attack paths, a customer-hosted zero-knowledge agent), whereas EY CPM is a consulting-led platform delivered through EY with advisory and board framing around it. Source: echelongraph.io/attack-graph.
Is EY CPM or EchelonGraph better for cross-cloud attack paths?
EchelonGraph maps attack paths that chain across AWS, GCP and Azure accounts and prioritizes them by live exploitability (EPSS + CISA-KEV), self-serve. EY CPM offers attack-path analysis as part of a delivered platform. If you want to see your own cross-cloud paths without an engagement, EchelonGraph. Source: echelongraph.io/attack-graph.
Does EchelonGraph keep data under our control like EY CPM?
Yes, and arguably more provably. EchelonGraph's Tier-3 agent runs inside your own Kubernetes on a zero-knowledge design, so sensitive data never has to leave your environment. Both emphasize sovereignty; EchelonGraph makes it architectural. Source: echelongraph.io/enterprise.
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Sources & disclaimer
Sources: EY India press release (9 July 2026); Business Today coverage.
Statements about EY Cyber Performance Management (CPM) are drawn from EY's public launch materials (July 2026) and press coverage linked above. Any figures — reductions in alert noise, response time, analyst efficiency or TCO — are EY's own reported claims and have not been independently verified by EchelonGraph. Statements about EchelonGraph describe our own product.
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