Systems and methods for proactively monitoring the inherent cyber-tech risk of software and hardware components

Abstract

Systems and methods for proactively monitoring the inherent cyber-tech risk of software and hardware components are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for proactively monitoring a cyber risk of a computer program may include: (1) receiving, by a product/version risk assessment computer program executed by an electronic device and from a user computer program executed by a use electronic device, an identification of a plurality of proposed components to include in the computer program; (2) retrieving, by the product/version risk assessment computer program, vulnerability information for each of the plurality of proposed components, wherein the vulnerability information identifies a security vulnerability for the proposed component; (3) generating, by a product/version risk scoring computer program, a risk score for the computer program under development based on the vulnerability information; and (4) returning, by the vulnerability assessment computer program, the risk score to the user computer program.