Cyber Insurance Application Checklist
Underwriters quietly raise premiums, or deny coverage outright, over controls most businesses never see coming. This checklist lays out the 47 controls carriers actually verify, sorted by what they require every time, what triggers a premium increase, and what can disqualify you entirely.
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47 controls across 17 categories
Every control is plain-language, prioritized by severity, and paired with how to verify it and how to fix it. Organized into 4 sections.
Real sample controls
A look at the highest-severity controls
These are taken directly from the checklist, no paraphrasing.
- CI-01CRITICALMFA
Require multi-factor authentication on every email account.
- CI-02CRITICALMFA
Require MFA for all remote access, VPN, RDP, and SSH.
- CI-03CRITICALMFA
Require MFA for every privileged and administrator account.
- CI-04CRITICALMFA
Require MFA for all cloud service consoles (AWS, Azure, M365 admin).
Cyber Insurance Prep Checklist
- 47 prioritized controls
- Verify & fix steps for each control
- 17 categories across 4 sections
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Built by Jason Dobbs, a technology leader and cybersecurity strategist with more than two decades of experience hardening Microsoft 365, Azure, and AWS for small and mid-sized businesses across regulated industries, healthcare, finance, law, real estate, energy, and the public sector. These controls are drawn from real assessments and the security questions cyber insurers actually ask.
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Frequently asked questions
What does a cyber insurance application checklist cover?
It maps the security controls underwriters review during application and renewal, multi-factor authentication, backups, patching, email security, incident response, and more, so you can self-assess before a carrier does.
Will this guarantee I get cyber insurance coverage?
No tool can guarantee an underwriting decision. This checklist shows you which controls carriers verify and which gaps commonly trigger premium increases or denials, so you can fix or disclose them ahead of time.
How is this different from a generic security checklist?
The 47 controls are organized around the underwriting process specifically: what carriers require every time, what raises premiums if missing, and what can disqualify coverage outright.
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