What is Cyber Insurance?
Cyber Liability Insurance
Insurance policies that cover financial losses from cyber incidents, increasingly requiring specific security controls like ZTNA, MFA, and endpoint detection as prerequisites for coverage.
Cyber insurance premiums have tripled since 2020, and carriers now require detailed evidence of security controls before issuing or renewing policies. The shift from questionnaire-based underwriting to technical verification means organizations need demonstrable controls, not just checkbox compliance.
SASE and SSE deployments directly address multiple insurer requirements: ZTNA satisfies network segmentation and least-privilege access controls. SWG with TLS inspection demonstrates web threat prevention. CASB covers SaaS data governance. DLP proves data exfiltration prevention. The audit logs these platforms generate serve as evidence during underwriting reviews and claims investigations.
Common insurer requirements that SASE addresses: MFA on all remote access (ZTNA with IdP integration), endpoint detection and response (agent posture checks), email security (SWG inspection), backup verification (CASB API scanning), and network segmentation (per-app ZTNA policies replacing flat VPN access). Organizations deploying SASE should map their platform capabilities to their insurer's control requirements — it often reduces premiums by 15–30%.
An access model that grants users connectivity to specific applications, not networks, based on identity and device posture, verified continuously per session.
A set of technologies that detect and prevent unauthorized transmission of sensitive data by inspecting content at rest, in motion, and in use against predefined and custom data patterns.
A cloud-delivered architecture that converges SD-WAN and security services (SWG, CASB, ZTNA, FWaaS) into a single, globally distributed platform.
A security model that eliminates implicit trust based on network location, requiring continuous verification of identity, device posture, and context for every access request.
US federal law that mandates security and privacy protections for protected health information (PHI), with specific technical safeguards that SASE platforms can enforce.
A set of security standards for organizations that handle cardholder data, requiring network segmentation, access controls, encryption, and monitoring — all addressable through SASE.
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