Digital Tool
The insurance sector provides a digital tool—a cybersecurity assessment—that allows you to evaluate how well your business is protected against cyber threats. These assessments are free and can help businesses of all sizes prevent attacks and strengthen their cybersecurity.
Why Cybersecurity is Important
A cyber attack can have serious consequences for your business. You could lose access to critical documents necessary for completing work or processing payments, such as invoices, expense receipts, or key project descriptions and blueprints. This may lead to financial losses, production delays, or damage to your company's reputation. Even small businesses without dedicated IT departments can become targets, facing severe repercussions if adequate security measures are not in place.
If your company has a website, social media accounts, a customer database, or an online booking system, it is at risk of a cyber attack.
Cybersecurity is not just about technology—it is about protecting what is most important to you and your business.
Protect Your Business
Even if your company's data does not seem particularly valuable to others, such as a customer register or appointment book, it could be vital to your operations. If sensitive information is lost, it could lead to ransom demands or the misuse of company data. This may cause operational downtime, financial losses, and reputational damage, affecting trust with customers and business partners.
The security assessment provides insight into how resilient your business is against cyber threats. The tool is user-friendly and should be completed by the person responsible for information security and data systems within your organisation.
Even if your company has outsourced IT services to an external provider, it still holds an independent responsibility for information security.
About the Assessments
The security assessment is divided into three levels:
- Basic
- Extended
- Comprehensive
The basic assessment evaluates 15 fundamental security measures that all businesses should implement. These measures can prevent up to 80% of cyber attacks. For smaller businesses with fewer employees, this assessment is a good starting point.
After completing the security assessment, you can print or save a report identifying your company's vulnerabilities, along with recommendations and guidance on how to improve security.
The results from the assessment are securely stored by our partner, DNV, ensuring that your information is managed in accordance with recognised security standards. Access to the surveys requires login to DNV’s Veracity platform.