Small Businesses & Cyber-Insurance Applicants
Small and mid-sized businesses that want a defensible security posture — whether or not a regulator requires it.
Many small and mid-sized businesses operate outside a specific sectoral regulation and yet face the same threat environment as any regulated peer: ransomware, business-email compromise, supply-chain attacks, and the increasingly detailed underwriting scrutiny of cyber-insurance carriers. The absence of a named regulator is not the absence of exposure.
For these firms, our engagements are structured around two adjacent goals: reducing the probability and impact of a security incident, and producing the documentation an insurer, an acquirer, a lender, or a large customer will now routinely request. Cyber-insurance applications in particular have moved from single-page questionnaires to multi-page attestations covering MFA, EDR, backup isolation, privileged-access management, and incident-response readiness — with premiums, coverage limits, and even eligibility hinging on the answers.
We build the program, deploy the controls, produce the evidence, and prepare the attestations. When the renewal application arrives, the answers are already documented.
Program Focus Areas
- Baseline security assessment mapped to CIS Controls v8 and NIST CSF 2.0
- Cyber-insurance application preparation and control attestation
- Multi-factor authentication, EDR, and immutable backup deployment
- Incident-response plan and tabletop exercises for leadership
- Vendor and supply-chain risk review
- Employee security-awareness training and phishing simulations
- Documentation packages for lenders, acquirers, and enterprise customers