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Cyber Insurance Readiness

From $2,500 (gap) CAD · scoped to you

Cyber insurers have tightened up. They commonly require multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection and response, tested backups, and a documented incident-response plan before they’ll bind or renew a policy, often at a favorable rate. We help you close those control gaps so the application goes through.

A SOC 2 Type II taken from no programme at all to zero exceptions across 76 controls: how it was built.
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Built for teams that...

  • Companies applying for cyber insurance for the first time
  • Teams facing a renewal with new control requirements or a rising premium
  • Founders who got a long insurer questionnaire and are not sure how to answer
  • Businesses that want lower risk and a cleaner application at the same time

What we do

  • Review of the insurer’s application or questionnaire against your current controls
  • Gap assessment on the controls insurers commonly require: MFA, EDR, tested backups, and an incident-response plan
  • Hands-on help closing the highest-impact gaps quickly
  • A documented incident-response plan you can attach to the application
  • Straight answers you can stand behind on the insurer’s questionnaire

What you walk away with

You go into the application or renewal with the controls insurers actually check for in place and documented, improving your odds of getting covered and your leverage on the premium.

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Frequently asked questions

What controls do cyber insurers usually require?

It varies by carrier, but multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection and response, tested backups, and a documented incident-response plan are common baseline expectations. We map your controls to the specific application in front of you.

Will this lower our premium?

We cannot promise a specific number, and premiums depend on your carrier, industry, and risk. What we can do is make sure you meet the controls insurers reward, which puts you in a better negotiating position.

Can you answer the insurer questionnaire for us?

We help you answer it accurately and defensibly. The answers have to be true, so where a control is missing we help you put it in place first rather than overstate it.

Do you provide the incident-response plan?

Yes. We can build a documented IR plan you can attach to the application, and pair it with an incident-response retainer if you want response capacity on standby.

The workspace is included, not quoted

The price above covers the work. It also covers where the work lives, which most buyers are quoted separately as an annual platform subscription.

traztech Workspace Other GRC platforms
Licence cost $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract
Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring Included Included
What it costs inside an engagement with us $0. You need a workspace either way Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee
What it does to your audit quote $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling

Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, is on the Workspace page.

Cyber Insurance Readiness, on your timeline

Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll tell you whether it fits, what it costs, and when we can start.

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Not ready to scope this yet? Open a free Workspace and score yourself against the framework first. It is the same register we work from during an engagement, so nothing you do there gets thrown away.

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Track record

Who is actually doing the work

We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.

5
Published CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1
76
Controls taken from nothing to a passed SOC 2 Type II
Zero
Exceptions on that Type II report
75 days
Readiness window we have hit every time we have run it
20+
Penetration testing engagements delivered

Published vulnerability research

Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.

The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.

A SOC 2 Type II built from nothing

At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.

The platform held 99.9% uptime throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.

Recent engagements

For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.

For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.