Continuous threat-to-control awareness. A standing watch that maps live cyber threats onto your authorization boundary.
ATO hardening posture for the active boundary. It shows what's hardened, what's at risk, and the specific mitigator for each gap. Connect a repo under Source to score your real dependency stack (version pinning, attack surface, KEV exposure).
The boundary PULSAR watches. Select a preset enclave to compare postures, or connect a repo under Source to evaluate your own stack. No CUI.
An Authority to Operate is a point-in-time snapshot. Threats are continuous. When CISA adds a new Known Exploited Vulnerability, an ISSM needs to know, fast, which authorized controls just degraded, on which system, and what the POA&M is. Today that answer is manual and slow.
It watches the live CISA KEV catalog, intersects each actively-exploited threat with a NIST 800-53 authorization boundary, and uses generative AI to map the threat to affected controls and mission impact, then drafts remediation and a POA&M in seconds. Point it at a repository and it evaluates your real dependency stack.
PULSAR is the continuous-monitoring bridge in the COSMIC-AX portfolio, carrying the threat-detection edge into the same control language COSMIC-AX uses for ATO/ATC, and that the Complyr scanner produces during development.
A pulsar is a neutron star whose beam sweeps past on a metronome-steady rotation, so reliable that astronomers use them as cosmic clocks. An ATO is a single snapshot, but the threat signal never stops coming around. The beam behind the wordmark is that idea made literal.