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Cyber Insurance Readiness Assessment

Identify weaknesses before a cyber insurance application or renewal. Maps your posture to common insurer questionnaire themes and produces remediation guidance plus a documentation checklist. Not a regulatory framework, not a compliance certification: an internal readiness worksheet to organise the documentation carriers commonly request. Coverage outcomes, premium levels, and claim adjudications are carrier determinations under specific policy terms; this assessment does not predict them.

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12 guided sections · 76 questions in the wizard

What this assessment covers

  1. 01

    Insurance Posture

    Context for the assessment: first-time application, renewal, or improvement-focused. Shapes the interpretation framing throughout.

  2. 02

    Network & Perimeter

    Firewall management, segmentation, remote-access posture, Wi-Fi, and network monitoring. Carriers commonly run their own external scans alongside these questions.

  3. 03

    Endpoint & Email Security

    EDR coverage, OS/application patching, email filtering, DMARC/DKIM/SPF, and automatic updates. Highest-signal baseline questions for many carriers.

  4. 04

    Access & Identity

    MFA scope across remote access / email / admin accounts, password-manager deployment, offboarding cadence, and dormant-account review.

  5. 05

    Backup, Continuity & Disaster Recovery

    Backup frequency, restoration testing, immutability/offline backups, RTO/RPO definition, continuity-plan testing, DR-plan documentation, ransomware-recovery posture, and recovery time.

  6. 06

    Incident Response

    Documented IR plan, testing cadence, breach-notification procedures, carrier-notification readiness, and forensic-investigation capability.

  7. 07

    Vulnerability Management & Penetration Testing

    Scanning cadence, patch SLAs, prioritization, external attack-surface inventory, remediation tracking, third-party pen-test recency, and web-application testing.

  8. 08

    Software & Development

    Application-patching cadence, dependency vulnerability management, secure code review, vulnerability-disclosure programme, and end-of-life software inventory.

  9. 09

    Data Protection

    Data classification, encryption at rest and in transit, data-loss-prevention controls, and PII inventory.

  10. 10

    Vendor & Supply Chain

    Vendor security assessment, contractual security requirements, vendor access controls, cloud-provider attestations, and vendor incident-notification expectations.

  11. 11

    Awareness, Training & Workforce Compliance

    Training cadence, phishing simulations, reporting mechanism, social-engineering breadth, completion tracking, signed-acknowledgment rates, violation tracking, and policy distribution.

  12. 12

    Risk Governance & Policies

    Risk-assessment cadence, risk register, executive oversight, security budget, incident history, documented policies, framework alignment, change management, log monitoring, log retention, and policy-exception process.

Decisions this assessment captures

A sample of the guided questions the wizard walks through. Answers stay placeholder-safe in the hosted draft; sensitive specifics are completed in your exported copy.

  • What is your current cyber insurance situation?
  • How do employees access your network remotely?
  • Is multi-factor authentication required for all email accounts?
  • How often are your critical business data and systems backed up?
  • How often do you scan your systems for known security vulnerabilities?
  • How quickly do you apply security patches to your applications and third-party software?
  • Is sensitive data encrypted when stored on your servers, databases, and employee devices?
  • How often do all employees receive cybersecurity awareness training?
  • How often does your organization perform formal cybersecurity risk assessments?
  • Do you monitor your network traffic for unusual activity or intrusion attempts?

Framework mappings

This assessment stands on its own. It does not map to a specific framework: the draft is built from your business profile and guided answers, and you can pair it with any framework binder you maintain.

When teams need it

  • A customer, insurer, partner, or internal reviewer asks for the document.
  • You need a clear owner, scope, review cadence, and evidence checklist.
  • You want framework-aware wording without starting from a blank template.

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