Make cyber insurance part of your wider resilience strategy
Cyber insurance can be an important part of how an organisation manages the financial and operational impact of a serious cyber incident. But having a policy is only one part of the picture. Decision-makers also need to understand what the policy is designed to support, how it connects to real-world cyber risk, and where further clarification may be needed.
The Cyber insurance pillar helps organisations understand their existing insurance arrangements, connect insurance with cyber risk and resilience, and have better-informed conversations with brokers and insurers.
Lockdown provides independent, non-regulated cyber risk consultancy. We do not provide insurance advice or act as brokers. Our role is to bring cyber expertise, business context and practical interpretation so you can understand how insurance fits into the wider resilience picture.
In simple terms: understand what your insurance is there to do, know what questions to ask, and make sure insurance is considered alongside the controls, preparedness and response capability protecting your organisation.
Clearer
understanding
Better
alignment
Stronger
decisions
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Give boards, finance and risk teams clearer information for conversations with brokers and insurers.
Greater
preparedness
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Understand how insurance interacts with incident response before you need to rely on it.
Cyber insurance
Common problems
Policy wording is difficult to understand
“We have cyber insurance, but we’re not completely clear what the policy actually means.”
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Translate policy wording into practical business understanding.
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Insurance Policy ReviewInsurance and cyber risk feel disconnected
“Our cyber insurance sits with finance, while cyber security sits somewhere else.”
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Connect insurance arrangements with cyber risk, operational exposure and resilience.
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Insurance Review & ConsultancyIncident expectations are unclear
“We don’t really know how our insurance would interact with our response if a serious incident happened.”
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Understand policy support structures, relevant conditions and incident-response considerations.
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Insurance Review & ConsultancyCover and exclusions are unclear
“We’re not sure what is covered, what isn’t, or what we should be asking about.”
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Identify areas requiring further clarification and prepare informed questions.
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Insurance Policy ReviewPolicy versus real-world risk
“We’re not sure whether our insurance arrangements reflect how our business actually operates.”
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Review insurance in the context of operational dependencies, cyber maturity and risk.
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Insurance Review & ConsultancyThe board needs the bigger picture
“We need to explain clearly how cyber insurance fits into our wider cyber resilience strategy.”
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Translate insurance, cyber risk and resilience into a board-level view.
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Insurance Review & ConsultancyChoose your cyber insurance area
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Understand your
existing policy
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Translate complex policy wording into clearer business understanding and identify questions that may need further clarification.
Connect insurance
to cyber risk
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Look beyond the policy itself and consider insurance alongside cyber maturity, operational dependencies, supply chain exposure and incident readiness.
Prepare for better
insurance conversations
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Bring clearer cyber-risk information and better questions into discussions with your broker or insurer.
Good to know
What is the difference between Insurance Policy Review and Insurance Review & Consultancy?
Insurance Policy Review focuses on understanding a particular cyber insurance policy: its structure, wording, support and areas you may want to clarify with your broker or insurer.
Insurance Review & Consultancy takes a wider view. It considers cyber insurance alongside your cyber maturity, operational dependencies, supply chain exposure, incident response capability and wider resilience strategy.
Do you provide insurance advice or act as an insurance broker?
No. Lockdown Cyber Security provides independent, non-regulated cyber risk consultancy. We do not advise you to buy, sell or select a particular insurance policy and we do not act as an insurance broker.
We help you understand cyber risk, interpret relevant information and prepare better questions for your authorised insurance broker or insurer.
Can you tell us whether our current cyber insurance policy is suitable?
We can help you understand your policy, consider how it relates to your cyber risk and identify areas that may need further clarification. Decisions about the suitability, purchase or placement of insurance should be discussed with your authorised broker or insurer.
Can you work alongside our existing broker or insurer?
Yes. Our role is complementary. We can help translate cyber risk, operational dependencies and resilience requirements into clearer information and questions, helping you have more productive conversations with your existing insurance professionals.
Can the review help us prepare for a cyber incident?
Yes. Insurance Review & Consultancy can consider how your insurance arrangements interact with incident response, operational dependencies and wider resilience planning. This helps relevant stakeholders understand what needs to be considered before an incident occurs.
Can you provide something suitable for the board?
Yes. Both review services can provide clear, business-focused findings that help leadership understand the role cyber insurance plays within the organisation’s wider cyber risk and resilience strategy.
Is this only useful when our policy is due for renewal?
No. A review can be useful during the policy period as well as ahead of renewal, particularly if your organisation, technology, supply chain, cyber risk or operational dependencies have changed.
