Cyber Insurance Readiness

Go into renewal with evidence, not estimates

Underwriters price uncertainty. If you can't show what you expose to the internet and what you have done about it, you pay for the doubt. Hexiosec gives you the evidence, and a secure way to hand it over.

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  • Cyber Essentials Plus
  • DSIT Software Security Ambassador
  • NCSC ACD 2.0 (ASM)
  • Trusted by UK Government and regulated industry
The problem

The questions got harder and the market got tighter

Cyber cover is no longer a form and a premium. Insurers now assess your external posture themselves, and they will find whatever you didn't declare.

Applications ask what you can't evidence

Questions about unsupported software, exposed services and patching assume an inventory most organisations do not actually maintain.

Underwriters scan you anyway

Many insurers run their own external assessment. Finding something you didn't mention starts the relationship badly.

A claim can turn on a declaration

If what you stated does not match what was exposed, that becomes an argument at the worst possible moment.

WHAT THEY LOOK AT

The external questions, and whether you can answer them today

These are the things an insurer can check from the outside, which means you should check them first.

Unknown internet-facing assets

Forgotten subdomains, test environments and supplier-hosted sites branded as yours. All visible, all in scope.

Known exploited vulnerabilities

Unpatched issues on the CISA KEV catalogue are the ones underwriters and attackers both care about most.

End-of-life and unsupported software

Publicly visible versions that no longer receive security updates are a common cause of loaded premiums.

Exposed remote access and admin panels

Login pages, management interfaces and remote access services that should not be reachable from the internet.

Certificate and email hygiene

Expired certificates, weak protocols and missing SPF, DKIM or DMARC records that signal loose administration.

Supplier exposure

Increasingly, the estates of the third parties you depend on, especially where they process your data.

being straight

What we can evidence, and what we cannot

An insurance application covers more than your external estate. We will not pretend otherwise.

We cover this

What Hexiosec ASM evidences

Your internet-facing estate, the exposure on it, how risks were prioritised, and a dated record of what was remediated.

OUTSIDE OUR VIEW

What we do not see

Backups, endpoint protection, MFA on internal systems, staff training and incident response readiness all sit outside external discovery.

WE CAN STILL HELP

Where our consultants help

If the application exposes gaps in governance, architecture or process, our team works with you on the parts a scan cannot fix.

How Hexiosec helps

Three parts of the same problem

Find it, fix it, and hand the evidence over without emailing a map of your weaknesses.

The evidence

Hexiosec ASM

Continuously discovers your external estate, ranks exposure by real-world exploitability, and produces dated evidence of remediation.

THE HANDOVER

Hexiosec Transfer

Sends that evidence to your broker or underwriter with encryption and an audit trail, rather than as an email attachment.

THE REMEDIATION

Hexiosec Consulting

Helps you close the gaps that are affecting price or blocking cover, and meet the conditions attached to a policy.

BEFORE RENEWAL

See what the underwriter will see, first

Run the same kind of outside-in assessment an insurer would, months before the form lands. Most organisations find something in the first scan that would have been awkward to explain and simple to fix.

  • A complete view of your internet-facing estate
  • Exposure ranked by what is actually exploited
  • The chance to fix the obvious before it is on record
  • A defensible answer to every external question
Hexiosec ASM dashboard UI within open laptop
Hexiosec ASM Kanban board with tickets being moved through the different stages
AT RENEWAL

Answer with dates, not adjectives

Saying you take patching seriously means very little. Showing when an issue was found, when it was closed and what the estate looks like now is a different conversation, and it is one underwriters respond to.

  • Dated discovery, remediation and closure records
  • Trend showing exposure reducing over time
  • Exportable evidence packs for brokers and underwriters
  • Secure delivery through Hexiosec Transfer
See the insights you could gain →
By Sector

What renewal looks like in your world

Legal

Client data concentration and merger-inherited estates make law firms a scrutinised class of risk.

Legal

Wealth and asset management

Regulated firms face both DORA duties and insurer questions on the same underlying evidence.

Wealth and asset management

Healthcare

Large clinical estates and sensitive data mean external exposure is examined closely.

Healthcare

Government

ALBs and local government carry the same questions through different assurance routes.

Government

By focusing on high-impact, externally visible risks, the university improved cyber resilience, reduced exposure, and secured a 10% reduction in cyber insurance premiums.

University CISO

Chief Information Security Officer · Large UK University

Where to start

Start before the form arrives

The earlier you look, the more of it you can fix rather than declare.

Scan my domain

See your external estate in minutes, with no account. This is the same view an underwriter can build.

Monitor continuously

A free account keeps 50 assets under weekly monitoring. Premium adds daily monitoring and exportable reports.

Talk it through

If renewal is close or cover is conditional, speak to an engineer about the fastest route to evidence.

FAQ

Questions about insurance and evidence

Will this reduce our insurance premium?
Potentially. We’ve seen customers benefit from reduced cyber insurance premiums, although this depends on the insurer and your individual circumstances. Hexiosec ASM helps demonstrate a proactive approach to identifying and managing cyber risks, providing evidence of your security posture and ongoing improvements that can support discussions with insurers.
Do insurers accept this as evidence?
Hexiosec ASM provides dated reports and supporting evidence of your organisation’s external security posture, identified risks and remediation progress. This can be valuable when demonstrating your approach to cyber risk management to insurers. Requirements vary between insurers, so we recommend checking with your broker about the evidence they accept.
Can you complete the insurance application for us?
No. However, Hexiosec ASM provides detailed information about your external security posture, identified risks and remediation progress that can help you complete your application.
We already had a penetration test. Is that enough?
Penetration testing provides valuable assurance about specific systems at a point in time. Insurers increasingly ask about continuous management of your internet-facing estate, including assets that were not in the test scope. Hexiosec ASM complements penetration testing by providing ongoing discovery, assessment and monitoring of those assets.
How long before renewal should we start?
Ideally a few months, so there is time to fix what you find rather than declare it. But a scan the week before still beats going in blind.
Does this cover our suppliers?
Supplier monitoring starts on the free tier with one supplier and scales from there, which matters if your policy or your insurer asks about third-party dependency.
Start today

See what your insurer will see

Run a free scan of your domain before the next application lands.