New · Cyber Risk Snapshot

What would a cyber incident cost your business?

Find out in about ten minutes. Answer around 20 questions, we check your domain from the outside, and Üsta's actuarial model gives you an indicative range of your expected annual cyber loss, in rand.

R3,000 launch price on our first five Snapshot orders until 11 December 2026, then R7,500. Once-off, for your own company. Hosted in South Africa (AWS Cape Town).

Your Snapshot · illustrative
Indicative expected loss over a year
R1.9m – R4.3m
covering ransomware, data breach, payment and invoice fraud, and a major cloud or system outage
That is about 0.9–2.1% of annual revenue.
  • ●What drives your range, and by how much
  • ●What we found from the outside, and why it matters in financial terms
  • ●What to look at next

Products

Start with your own number, or build it into your work.

One actuarial model sits behind every product. A company can buy its own Snapshot online today. Insurers, brokers, lenders and advisers use the same model inside the work they already do.

Cyber Risk SnapshotNew · buy online
For your own company

Your expected cyber loss, in about ten minutes

Around 20 questions and an outside-in check of your domain give you an indicative range of your expected annual cyber loss, in rand, and what drives it.

R3,000 launch price on our first five Snapshot orders until 11 December 2026, then R7,500.

Üsta platform
For enterprises

Your cyber exposure, kept current

Daily outside-in monitoring, what improving each control area is worth, a ranked remediation plan and board reporting, all in financial terms.

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Underwrite
For insurers, reinsurers & UMAs

A modelled loss estimate for each applicant

Frequency and severity for every submission, built from the applicant's profile and corroborated against an independent external view. The rating decision stays yours.

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Cyber Due Diligence
For lenders & capital providers

Cyber exposure in the businesses you fund

A borrower's or investee's cyber exposure in financial terms, from a passive screen before you commit to monitoring across the portfolio.

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Broker workspace
For insurance brokers

Start the limit conversation from a number

Go into a placement or a renewal with your client's cyber exposure in financial terms, so the limit, excess and cover conversation starts from a figure the client and the underwriter can both follow.

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Partner workspace
For security firms & advisers

Run Snapshots for your clients

Put an independent estimate of a client's or prospect's cyber exposure in front of the buyer, under your name, with what your own area of work is worth to them.

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Partners

One model, used from every side of the cyber decision.

An insurer pricing a risk, a broker placing it, a security firm selling the fix and an adviser reporting on it all need the same thing: what the exposure is worth. Üsta produces it once, independently, in a form each of them can use.

Why Partners Work With Üsta

A figure both sides of the deal can use.

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A number no deal can shape

The model does not know who is buying, selling or placing what, and no result is adjusted to suit a deal. That is why an insurer, a broker and the client can all sit in front of the same figure and argue about the decision instead of the arithmetic.

02

Actuarial method, basis stated

Frequency and severity, combined into a loss distribution, the way every other insured risk is already measured. Every figure carries its range and what it rests on. Where the evidence is thin, the range widens and the page says why.

03

Runs without a mature security stack

Üsta starts from an independent external view of the organisation and a structured profile of its business and controls. Security artefacts narrow the estimate when they exist. They are not a precondition for producing one.

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Built to work alongside you

Üsta's outputs are an input to your underwriting, your advice or your proposal, and the decision stays with you. A client you introduce works with both of us, on terms agreed once, in writing.

What The Model Produces

Cyber exposure in the units the rest of the risk register already uses.

Cyber sits on the risk register rated High. A premium, a limit or an appetite cannot be set in Highs.

Expected
Expected Annual Loss

Probability-weighted, in financial terms. The baseline a budget, a limit or a proposal sits against.

tail
Tail Risk

What a severe year could cost, not just an average one (VaR and TVaR).

Value of Closing a Gap

What improving each control area is worth in reduced expected loss. The cost of the fix is yours to set.

Data breachFraudRansomware
Scenario Analysis

Data breach, ransomware, cyber fraud, outage and third-party failure, each modelled separately in financial terms.

Illustrative output formats. Every figure is built from the assessed organisation’s own exposure and controls.

For Enterprises

Running cyber risk inside your own business?

The same model works directly for the organisations carrying the risk. Credit, market and operational risk are governed in financial terms. Üsta puts cyber on the same footing, so budget, insurance cover, risk appetite and board reporting can run off one number.

Any evidence you already hold, from penetration tests to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 reports, feeds the model. None of it is required to start.

A Method You Can Question

Presented to actuaries and security practitioners.

Üsta's method is set out in public, in front of the audiences best placed to challenge it. Built in Cape Town, designed to travel to any market where cyber loss data is thinner than the decisions that depend on it.

53rd ASSA ConventionEnterprise Risk Management track, Cape Town, October 2026
ISC2 Cape Town ChapterCyber risk in the age of AI, August 2026
Africa Tech Festival 2026Chair, Cybersecurity stage, November 2026

Insight

What South Africa's new cyber standard means for your board.

Joint Standard 2 of 2024 places responsibility for cyber risk oversight with the governing body. What that obligation asks of a board, and of the advisers who support it.

Ready to start a conversation?

Your own company: get a Snapshot online in about ten minutes. Partners: we will work out which part of your business this fits and set out the terms in writing. Enterprises: a 30-minute demo.