Solution Overview

10 Ways to Successfully Secure the Best Cyber
Insurance Policy for Your Business
Key Beneﬁts

Help your organization meet requirementswith the below steps:
1.

For the most successful renewal, start the process early!
Done correctly, the labor is spread out over time and reusedfor board meetings, audits, team reviews, etc.

2.

Align your cybersecurity program to a framework (NIST, etc.)

3.

Create a roadmap for implementing security controls – it’s
important to showcase your continuous effort to improve

4.

Identify gaps in your program – take this time to ask forbudget and invest in the most impactful control(s)5.

Evaluate your overall exposure to potential loss:a.
Utilize a tool to gain visibility across your entire
attack surface (you can’t protect what you don’tknow!)b. Determine the organization’s loss of income during
downtimec.
Consider your volume of 3rd party data

6.

Review your vulnerability management program - ensure you
are able to prove remediation SLAs against your policies

7.

Proactively gather evidence on your security controls – thesecan be used for the renewal/purchase process year over year

8.

Review your identity and access management (IAM)
procedures:a.
MFA when necessaryb. Assess roles, right-size permissions, and potential
misconﬁgurations

9.

Consider Cyber Resiliency – encrypt backups and test
restoration processes

10.

Review external scoring tools ahead of your renewal.
Carriers will use them - proactively view and ﬁnd the data
points from your internal tools to provide insight to theirincomplete assessment.

● The Tenable Portfolio helps customers
obtain cyber insurance policies bymeeting requirements for cyberprograms across vulnerability
management, cloud security, andidentity security.
● An effective exposurement
management program, like Tenable
One, gives customers a uniﬁed view of
all assets and associated software
vulnerabilities, conﬁguration
vulnerabilities and entitlement
vulnerabilities, whether on-prem or in
the cloud, to help underwriters
understand risk. It can also helporganizations prioritize efforts tomake the biggest impact.
● The Cyber Insurance Report allows
customers to give cyber insurance
providers insights into their cyber risk,
which can streamline the underwritingprocess.

About Tenable
Tenable® is the Exposure Managementcompany. Approximately 43,000
organizations around the globe rely on
Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk.
As the creator of Nessus®, Tenable extended
its expertise in vulnerabilities to deliver theworld’s ﬁrst platform to see and secure any
digital asset on any computing platform.
Tenable customers include approximately 60
percent of the Fortune 500, approximately
40 percent of the Global 2000, and large
government agencies.
Learn more at tenable.com.

More Information●●●●

For more information on how Tenable
can help your organization, checkout our Tenable Products and Cyber
Insurance page.
Contact us at
cyberinsurance@tenable.com
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