Cyber insurers, including AIG and others, increasingly rely on detailed control-effectiveness assessments to determine premiums and coverage terms. PacketViper's Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD) technology delivers measurable improvements to these insurance evaluations by actively reducing risk exposure, limiting potential claims, and demonstrating strong compensating controls. This paper highlights how PacketViper solutions directly improve an organization’s cyber insurance profile — leading to more favorable underwriting, lower premiums, and enhanced insurability.
Insurers assess several dimensions of risk including: exposure, control effectiveness, threat frequency, and incident response maturity. These assessments often mirror frameworks like NIST, CIS, and ISO 27001 — requiring evidence of segmentation, intrusion prevention, visibility, and response capability.
However, traditional security tools often provide limited measurable results and require complex integration. Insurers view these gaps as increased exposure. PacketViper uniquely closes these gaps by introducing inline, real-time, and independently verifiable controls that improve both prevention and containment metrics.
PacketViper’s AMTD platform provides continuous, proactive defense across IT and OT environments.
Inline Threat Containment: Instantly isolates and blocks malicious sources at wire speed, reducing lateral movement and breach propagation costs.
Network Noise Reduction: Decreases false positives and event volumes, lowering Managed SIEM/SOC service costs and improving response accuracy.
Legacy System Protection: Granular packet-level defense extends the life of unsupported or unpatchable assets, satisfying insurer compensating control requirements.
PacketViper enhances insurer-assessed controls in multiple categories:
Segmentation & Isolation: Enforces policy-driven isolation between critical networks (e.g., IT/OT, IoT/ICS).
Anomaly Detection: Detects and blocks unauthorized behaviors without requiring identity integration.
Remote Access Security: Protects OT Remote (OTR) endpoints with built-in deception and MFA enforcement for remote maintenance connections.
Applied Intelligence: Automatically enforces blacklist rules, transforming passive detection into enforceable prevention.
Deceptive Responders and DR ID Decoys: Capture and block malicious reconnaissance and credential attacks before data exposure.
Sensor-Only Mode: Allows passive detection and blocking in regulated environments where stealth monitoring is required.
PacketViper provides insurers and brokers with quantifiable data to validate security posture:
Reduced attack surface through active boundary enforcement.
Lower mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR).
Documented visibility into north/south and east/west traffic for insurer audit validation.
Organizations deploying PacketViper AMTD demonstrate measurable reductions in:
Incident Frequency: Preemptive blocking prevents many events from escalating to reportable breaches.
Incident Cost: Containment minimizes damage and recovery expenses.
Underwriting Risk: Insurers view AMTD controls as high-value compensating factors, often resulting in premium credits or broader insurability.
These improvements align with insurer metrics across:
Control Effectiveness → Increased maturity score
Threat Frequency → Lower exposure index
Incident Response → Enhanced recoverability rating
In the context of AIG’s cyber insurance application, PacketViper OTR (OT Remote) strengthens the control categories related to:
ICS/SCADA segmentation and isolation
Remote access authentication and monitoring
Anomaly detection and containment within operational networks
For industrial and critical infrastructure clients, OTR appliances reduce insurer-perceived risks of physical damage and operational disruption — key underwriting factors in First Party Property Damage and Expanded Network Interruption coverage components