The Institute’s Mission is to build an overlay system that governs, assures, and accounts for resilience in digital ecosystems
The Institute’s Vision is to create training and tools for organizations of any size to deploy this innovative solution
Introducing the DVMS Institute and its ‘Digital Value Management System (DVMS)
Over the years, digital threats and challenges have become more severe, and organizations’ responsibility to do more has increased. The DVMS Institute recognizes these emerging challenges and is committed to reshaping how organizations ensure resilience in their complex digital ecosystems.
From its outset, the DVMS Institute’s mission was to build an overlay system that governs, assures, and accounts for resilience across complex digital ecosystems
In January 2017, the Institute released its NIST Cybersecurity Framework accredited certification training programs to teach organizations of any size, scale, or complexity a standardized approach to adapting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and its informative reference control systems (NIST 800-53, ISO 27001) across an enterprise and its supply chain.
In January 2020, the Institute released an updated version (Rev 2) of its NIST Cybersecurity Framework training program.
In November 2022, the Institute released its first two bodies of knowledge, providing detailed guidance on operationalizing a NIST Cybersecurity Framework program using a Digital Value Management System® (DVMS).
The Institute also released another update (Rev 3) to its NIST Cybersecurity Framework training programs, which now includes the DVMS publications in its courseware kit.
In February 2024, the Institute, along with its partners APMG International and TSO Publishing, announced a new standardized brand identity and certification badging system focused on Cyber Resilience. This update not only reflected a candidate’s understanding of how to operationalize the NIST Cybersecurity Framework but also how to build an adaptive, culture-enabled DVMS governance, assurance, and accountability system that ensures resilience in complex digital ecosystems.
In January of 2025, the Institute released its third body of knowledge publication, Thriving on the Edge of Chaos – A Holistic Approach to Organizational Cyber Resilience.
At its heart, the book highlights the critical role of organizational culture as the “glue” that binds strategy, leadership, and execution, ensuring sustainable digital resilience. Through actionable insights and real-world examples, it equips leaders with the knowledge to embrace complexity, harness disruption, and confidently manage a digital world that demands constant reinvention.
In January of 2026, the Institute released Version 4 (V4) of its DVMS Cyber Resilience Professional accredited certification training programs to support not only the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0. updates, but more importantly, the integration of the Thriving on the Edge of Chaos – A Holistic Approach to Organizational Cyber Resilience publication into the DVMS training portfolio. V4now enables organizations of any size, scale, or complexity to support the two pillars of organizational cyber resilience.
As enterprises accelerated their adoption of complex, cloud-native architectures, they encountered a new order of complexity. Infrastructure dissolved into services, workloads became ephemeral, and security boundaries blurred. In that environment, Wiz emerged as a transformational force in cloud technical security, offering radical visibility and risk prioritization across multi-cloud ecosystems.
At the same time, a broader and more consequential challenge emerged, one that extends well beyond isolated technical misconfigurations or discrete vulnerabilities.
Modern organizations function as dynamic, highly interconnected digital ecosystems shaped by siloed frameworks, technologies, applications, processes, data flows, and human actors, all operating in continuous interaction. Within this complexity, risks and outcomes are not confined to individual components; they arise from the relationships and dependencies between them.
This is the domain in which the Digital Value Management System® (DVMS) operates.
While Wiz redefined how organizations see and secure cloud environments, DVMS is redefining how enterprises govern, assure, and account for cyber resilience as an integrated dimension of digital business performance.
Explainer Video – What is a Digital Value Management System (DVMS)
The DVMS is an overlay management system that governs, assures, and accounts for cyber resilience in complex digital ecosystems.
Create, Protect, and Deliver (CPD) – The CPD Model™ is a systems-based model within the DVMS that links strategy-risk and governance to execution to create, protect, and deliver digital business value as an integrated, continuously adaptive capability.
3D Knowledge (3DK) – The 3D Knowledge Model is a systems-thinking framework that maps team knowledge over time (past, present, future), cross-team collaboration, and alignment to strategic intent to ensure that organizational behavior, learning, and execution remain integrated and adaptive in delivering digital business value.
Minimum Viable Capabilities (MVC) – The Minimum Viable Capabilities (MVCs) model supports the seven essential, system-level organizational capabilities—Govern, Assure, Plan, Design, Change, Execute, and Innovate—required to reliably create, protect, and deliver digital business value in alignment with strategy-risk intent.
Question Outcome / Question Metric (QO/QM) – This approach supports governance as testable intent by defining a clear Question Outcome (QO), the specific value or resilience condition that must be true at a given boundary, and pairing it with one or more Question Metrics (QM) that provide observable, decision-relevant evidence that the system can actually create, protect, and deliver that outcome under complex, living system operating conditions
A Governance Overlay that replaces fragmentation with unity. The DVMS provides organizations with a structured way to connect strategy with day-to-day execution. Leaders gain a consistent mechanism to direct, measure, and validate performance across every system responsible for digital value.
A Behavioral Engine that drives high-trust, high-velocity decision-making. The DVMS embeds decision models and behavioral patterns that help teams think clearly and act confidently, even in uncertain situations. It is engineered to reduce friction, prevent blame-based cultures, and strengthen organizational reliability.
A Learning System that makes culture measurable, adaptable, and scalable. Culture becomes a managed asset—not an abstract concept. The DVMS provides a repeatable way to observe behavior, collect evidence, learn from outcomes, and evolve faster than threats, disruptions, or market shifts.
Instead of replacing existing operational frameworks and platforms, the DVMS elevates them, connecting and contextualizing their data into actionable intelligence that enables organizations to:
For the CEO, the DVMS provides a clear line of sight between digital operations, business performance, and strategic outcomes—turning governance and resilience into enablers of growth and innovation rather than cost centers.
For the Board of Directors, the DVMS provides ongoing assurance that the organization’s digital assets, operations, and ecosystem are governed, protected, and resilient—supported by evidence-based reporting that directly links operational integrity to enterprise value and stakeholder trust.
For the CIO, CRO, CISO, and Auditors, the DVMS provides a unified approach to organizational digital value management, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance.
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