Cyber Risk Snapshot

Put a rand figure on your cyber risk before anyone asks.

Answer about 20 questions on your business and its controls. We add an outside-in scan of your own domain and, within minutes, show you an indicative range for your expected annual cyber loss in rand. It covers ransomware, data breach, payment and invoice fraud, and a major cloud or system outage.

R3,000 launch price on our first five Snapshot orders, then R7,500. Once-off, no subscription.

How it works
  1. 1
    Sign up with your work email
    We scan the domain it belongs to, and no other.
  2. 2
    Answer about 20 questions
    In plain business language, in one sitting.
  3. 3
    Pay once, by card
    The scan and the model run straight away.
  4. 4
    See your range
    With a short report, usually within minutes.

Where It Helps

A first figure for the cyber decisions you already make.

The decisions around cyber, from the security budget to insurance cover, are made in rand. The Snapshot gives each of them a figure to start from, privately, so you know the size of the exposure before you take a position on it.

How much should we be spending on cyber?

See the order of magnitude your security budget sits against.

How much cover should we be looking at?

Know the size of the exposure before the conversation with your broker.

Is this within what we can tolerate?

Hold a range in rand up against your risk appetite.

How do I explain our exposure to leadership?

Start that conversation with a figure and what it rests on.

What You Get

An indicative range, and what sits behind it.

A range in rand

Your expected annual cyber loss as a range, never a single point estimate, across ransomware, data breach, payment and invoice fraud, and a major cloud or system outage.

What sets the width

Why the range is as wide as it is, including how much of it comes from what is not yet known about your controls.

What the scan found

What an outside-in look at your domain shows, in plain language.

How to read it

The range is an expected value: what cyber loss would cost your business in an average year, given your answers and what the scan found. It is not a prediction of next year. The Snapshot is indicative and meant for your own use, not for a board, lender, insurer or regulator to rely on. When you want the full picture, tracked over time, talk to us about the platform.

Sample Report

What the report looks like.

The report is short: the range first, then what sets its width, what the scan of your domain found and the basis the estimate rests on.

Price

One price, paid once.

R3,000

launch price on our first five Snapshot orders, then R7,500.

Once-off, no subscription.

What's included
  • About 20 questions on your business and its controls
  • An outside-in scan of your own domain
  • An indicative range in rand across four loss scenarios
  • A short report, usually ready within minutes
  • An automatic retry if the scan fails, and your money back if it still can't complete

Common Questions

Before you start.

The Method

Actuarial method, with its basis stated.

Cyber loss is estimated the way insured risks have long been measured: how often a loss happens and how large it is when it does, combined into a distribution of annual loss. The Snapshot runs that model on your answers and your scan.

A figure in rand, not a rating

The output is a loss estimate your finance team can work with, not a score or a colour.

Independent of who is asking

It is the same independent model Üsta runs for every side of a cyber decision, and no result is adjusted to suit anyone.

A range that explains itself

Where loss data is thin, or an answer can't be confirmed from outside, the range widens and the report says why.

The model is built in Cape Town under Boris Kouambo (TASSA), Üsta's founder and Actuarial Lead, and its method has been presented to actuaries and security practitioners.

How the model works

See your range in minutes.

Start with your work email. R3,000 launch price on our first five Snapshot orders, then R7,500. Once-off, no subscription.