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Cyber Insurance Readiness: Pass Underwriting Questionnaire
Implement the controls insurers demand, gather the evidence, and pass your cyber insurance questionnaire.
Created byNEXUS ACADEMY
Last updated 6/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Explain how evidence-based cyber insurance underwriting works, including external scans and pre-bind technical interviews
- Implement the "big five" controls insurers require: MFA, EDR/XDR, immutable backups, an incident response plan, and patch management
- Deploy enforced, phishing-resistant MFA and privileged access management across email, VPN, and admin accounts
- Harden endpoints and servers with EDR/XDR and enforce SPF, DKIM, and DMARC email authentication
- Assemble an evidence package and confidently answer a 75-150 question underwriting questionnaire
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Course content
5 sections • 17 lectures • 1h 45m total length
Requirements
- Basic familiarity with IT administration and your organization's systems — no prior insurance experience needed
- Administrative access to the systems you want to assess, or the ability to work with the people who have it
Description
“This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.”
Cyber insurance has changed. Insurers no longer take your word for it: underwriting has shifted from self-attestation checkboxes to evidence-based review. Roughly three of every four carriers now run external attack-surface scans during underwriting, and many require a follow-up technical interview before they will bind a policy. Questionnaires routinely run 75 to 150 specific control questions, and a single weak answer can raise your premium or sink your application.
This course turns that questionnaire into a practical roadmap for hardening your environment. It is built for IT managers, sysadmins, and security leads at small and mid-market organizations who are responsible for both implementing controls and completing the application. Everything is vendor-neutral and plain-English: you will learn how to actually implement each control so you can honestly answer "yes" and prove it with evidence.
We focus on the "big five" controls insurers treat as effectively mandatory: enforced, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication on email, remote access, and admin accounts; EDR or XDR on every endpoint and server with 24/7 monitoring; immutable, air-gapped backups following the 3-2-1 rule with tested restores; a tested incident response plan; and documented vulnerability and patch management with defined SLAs. You will also cover privileged access management, email authentication (SPF, DKIM, and DMARC), centralized logging, and security awareness training.
By the end, you will know how to assemble a credible evidence package (screenshots, policy exports, and attestations), prepare for the technical interview and external scan, and walk into your renewal with confidence. Completing these controls has been associated with materially lower and more stable premiums.
Who this course is for:
- IT managers, sysadmins, and security leads at small and mid-market organizations responsible for the cyber insurance application
- Teams that must implement and prove security controls so they can honestly answer "yes" to underwriting questions