Cyber Insurance Readiness Assessment
Prepare your organization for cyber insurance applications and renewals by evaluating compliance with insurer requirements, identifying control gaps, and implementing documentation to support favorable coverage terms and rates.
In scope
- Insurance requirement analysis
- Cyber control mapping
- Security documentation review
- Policy compliance assessment
- Incident response capability
- Risk management evaluation
- Security governance review
You receive
- Insurance readiness report
- Control gap analysis
- Documentation enhancement plan
- Insurance application support
- Premium reduction recommendations
- Underwriter response preparation
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Basic Insurance Readiness
$25K
Readiness assessment for up to 250 employees at 1 location against 1 carrier questionnaire (new application / renewal): control mapping to insurer requirements, evidence check of existing documents, incident response capability review, readiness report and gap analysis.
- employees
- 250
- Sites
- 1
- Insurer requirement analysis for 1 application
- Control mapping and validation against that questionnaire
- Review of existing security documentation
- Incident response capability review
- Insurance readiness report and control gap analysis
- — Writing missing policies or evidence
- — Remediation guidance beyond the gap list
- — Underwriter calls or responses
- — More than 1 carrier application
Standard Insurance Preparation Program
$45K
For up to 1,000 employees and up to 3 locations, covering up to 3 carrier applications. Adds a documentation enhancement plan with drafted policies and evidence, completed application answers, and a remediation plan for gaps that affect insurability.
- employees
- 1000
- Sites
- 3
- Everything in Basic, for up to 3 carrier applications
- Drafted policies and evidence for missing documentation
- Completed application / questionnaire answers
- Gap remediation plan with priorities and owners
- Governance and risk management review
- — Attending underwriter or broker calls
- — Coverage strategy and premium reduction plan
- — Hands-on technical remediation
Premium Coverage Optimization
$75K
For organizations beyond the Standard limits on employees and locations; no fixed cap - scoped at kickoff. Adds a coverage strategy, underwriter response preparation with attendance on underwriter and broker calls, and a premium reduction plan tied to specific controls.
- Everything in Standard
- Coverage strategy across carriers and limits
- Underwriter response preparation and call attendance
- Broker coordination through quote stage
- Premium reduction plan tied to specific controls
- — Acting as the insurance broker or binding coverage
- — Legal review of policy wording
- — Hands-on technical remediation
- — Any guarantee of coverage terms or premium
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What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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