Solutions · Prove your security

The bar has risen, and now you have to prove you are secure.

A customer's questionnaire and an insurer's application used to take your word, and they no longer do. Both now want evidence that the controls you claim were actually running on the day something went wrong, and a promise you cannot show has started to cost money in lost deals and denied claims.

The demand

It shows up in two rooms at once. In sales, the security questionnaire has become a pre-sale gate. In 2022 Gartner predicted that by 2025, 60 percent of organizations would weigh a vendor's security posture heavily when deciding whether to do business, and a slow or unconvincing answer can stall a deal for months. In insurance, the application has become a technical audit. Nearly every carrier now requires enforced multi-factor authentication, most require detection and response on every endpoint, and many run their own external scan of your attack surface before they will quote. The question now is whether you can show the controls working.

The stakes

When the paperwork doesn't match reality, the coverage disappears.

This is where an unproven claim gets expensive. Proof helps win deals, and it keeps the safety net from vanishing when you need it.

By industry accounts, a sizeable minority of cyber claims, somewhere from 25 to 40 percent, are cut back or refused, usually because the controls a company signed off on were not the ones in place when it counted. Insurers also close a large share of claims with no payout at all: the NAIC's 2025 market report found nearly three of every four cyber claims were closed without payment, a category that also covers claims below the deductible and withdrawals. The precedent is set. In Travelers v. International Control Services, an insurer moved to rescind a policy after finding the applicant had claimed multi-factor authentication everywhere when it was not fully deployed, and the parties agreed to cancel it, treating the policy as if it had never been in force.

WHAT YOU ATTESTEDe.g. MFA everywhere only attested Claim denied, rescinded proven, on the record Claim paid CLAIMS FALTER WHEN THE CONTROLS DO NOT MATCH REALITY

An attested control can be rescinded when it matters most. Recording the proof is what makes it hold up.

The answer

Evidence, in the form they already accept.

Verskop produces exactly what the client and the underwriter are now asking for, and Rampart Cybersecurity LLC can make sure it is true before you ever hand it over.

Verskop looks at your business from the outside, the same way carriers have started to, confirms what is actually exposed and which controls are holding, and hands you a brief that shows them working, with every finding cited to a recognized source. Rampart Cybersecurity LLC can also stand up the controls the questionnaire and the policy require and keep them proven, so the answer you hand over reads well and holds up as true.

  • External evidence, gathered the way underwriters now gather it
  • Each control we can evidence, cited to a recognized authority
  • Refreshed on a schedule, so the proof is current the day they ask
  • Controls stood up and kept proven, with evidence behind them

The sources on this page

Cyber-insurance underwriting practice NAIC · 2025 cyber market report Travelers v. International Control Services · 2022 Gartner · 2022 cybersecurity predictions

Every figure above is sourced. The only claim that is ours is what Rampart Cybersecurity LLC and Verskop do.

Proof before they ask

Have the proof before they ask for it.

Authorize Verskop against one of your domains, and we will return the brief you would give a client or an underwriter, with the evidence behind every line.