Cyber insurance readiness for Canadian businesses
Blue North Cyber helps you complete your insurer’s security questionnaire accurately—so every answer reflects what is actually in place.
The risk behind the checkbox
Security questions look simple. Your environment rarely is. MFA may protect email but not remote access. Backups may run every night but have never been restored.
Blue North Cyber verifies the details behind each answer and creates the defensible record your business needs.
The readiness review
Focused on the areas that appear again and again in Canadian cyber insurance applications and renewals.
Coverage across email, remote access, privileged accounts, and cloud services.
Deployment, coverage, alerting, and the capability of your current tooling.
Isolation, immutability, retention, and evidence from recent restore tests.
Privileged accounts, joiner-mover-leaver processes, and access lifecycle.
Plan ownership, currency, escalation paths, and evidence of testing.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC, anti-phishing controls, and domain protection.
Defined timelines, current compliance, and vulnerability handling.
Program cadence, completion evidence, and practical staff readiness.
Findings are also mapped to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security’s Baseline Cyber Security Controls for Small and Medium Organizations.
What you receive
No generic scorecard. You receive practical documents built around your environment, your questionnaire, and your next decisions.
Ask about your renewalEvery answer tied to the evidence that supports it.
A durable record of what was verified, when, and how.
Findings ranked by claim risk and remediation effort.
A clear, sequenced plan your team or IT provider can act on.
A focused 45-minute session to walk through decisions and next steps.
A low-friction process
Roughly two hours of your team’s time. No penetration testing, no system changes, and no disruption to your staff.
Days 1–2
Confirm scope, review your insurer’s questionnaire, and issue a focused evidence request.
Days 3–7
Review the evidence, read-only admin views, and public-facing security records.
Days 8–11
Map each answer to evidence and build your gap register and remediation roadmap.
Days 12–14
Walk through the findings together, then issue the final documents.
Independent by design
Blue North Cyber is an independent cybersecurity consultancy founded by Zachary Hamed in British Columbia. The work is deliberately narrow: verify what is true, document what matters, and make the next step clear.
Because the review does not depend on selling you software or a managed service, the findings stay centred on your actual risk and priorities.
Cyber Insurance Readiness Review
Start with a short conversation about your renewal date, current questionnaire, and environment.