See where you stand on the questions carriers actually ask, and what to do about each one. Nine plain-English questions, one per control (the big four, the second ring, and the payment rule), each read green, amber, or red the way the form will read them. About five minutes. No email required.
Plain-English readiness, without us ever seeing your answers. It runs in your browser; nothing you type leaves your machine.
The nine controls nearly every form asks about. The check walks the same ground the renewal form does: the big four, multi-factor authentication (MFA), endpoint detection and response (EDR), tested backups, and a written incident response plan, then the second ring of patching, security-awareness training, offboarding, and email authentication, and the payment-verification rule that guards how money moves.
What you get. A colour for each of the nine, with one honest tie-breaker doing the reading: if you cannot say where the proof would come from, it is not green. Amber is the honest middle where most firms start, and a red is just an amber with more homework. You also get the first question to put to your IT provider, drawn from your first gap. The rubric mirrors Appendix F of the companion book, Cyber Insurance in Plain English.
What it isn't. This is general guidance. It is not insurance, legal, or brokerage advice; it is not an application, a quote, or a policy; and it makes no promise about coverage, claims, or premiums. It describes readiness, not coverage. Your policy wording controls; confirm coverage questions with your broker or carrier. Responsibility for your organisation's security and insurance decisions remains with you.
Version 1 · Updated 2026-07-21
For an owner or manager with a renewal coming who wants to know how the form will read before the underwriter does.
When you have worked through this, you will have: your free readiness result, and the first renewal moves to make this week. Download this as a PDF.
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