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Quantify Cyber Risk As a Business Risk

Board-ready financial metrics you can trust. Enterprise-wide. In days.

Board-Level Cybersecurity Decisions Start with Top-Down Quantification

Most CRQ models start from the bottom - mapping systems, modeling threats, and estimating probabilities. That logic works for IT operations but doesn’t scale to the company-wide view the Board needs.

When leadership needs to know:

  • What could a major cyber event cost us?
  • Where is our biggest financial exposure?
  • Are we spending the right amount in cybersecurity?

… Bottom-up models fall short. They’re too complex, too slow, and too focused on technical detail.

Top-Down Flips the Logic

Instead of asking:
“How likely is it that System X will be compromised by Threat Y?”

It asks:
“If this part of our business is hit by a serious cyber event, what’s at stake?”

Top-down starts from how the business creates value and quantifies what’s financially at stake. This allows decision makers to prioritise and justify investments confidently.

Developed by Munich Re. Refined for the Boardroom.

Top-down quantification was developed by Munich Re, the world’s largest cyber reinsurer, to price cyber risk across thousands of companies. After more than 4,500 company assessments, the same methodology now powers the Squalify platform.

Why Top-Down Quantification Wins in the Boardroom

Get board-ready financial metrics you can trust. Enterprise-wide. In days.

Strategic & Board-Ready

Quantify your financial exposure, align it with your risk appetite and show how specific cybersecurity investments reduce risk over time.

Enterprise-Wide Visibility

Assess cyber risk globally, across regions and subsidiaries in one platform, with a clear, consolidated view of group-level exposure.

Fast Results. Minimal Effort

Get company-wide risk insights in days. No asset inventories, threat modelling, or integrations required.

Get the Answers Today You Wish You Had in Your Last Board Meeting

Spend less time collecting data and more time making decisions that hold up in the Boardroom. 

Most cyber risk models require exhaustive detail (technical inventories, spreadsheets, threat probabilities) because they build risk from the bottom up.

We do it differently. Our top-down model starts from business impact. That means fewer inputs, no subjective assumptions, and faster results built for executive decisions.

Minimal Data Requirements

Assess company-wide cyber risk with less than 200 data points.

What you need
Basic company data (14 data points)
Company-relevant scenarios (60-80 data points)
InfoSec maturity levels (100+ controls)
What you don't need anymore
Guesstimate threat inputs
Integrations
Spreasheets

Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Cyber Risk Quantification

Why business leaders are moving from technical risk models to board-ready decisions.

Bottom-Up vs Top-Down (Squalify)
Bottom-Up (e.g., FAIR) Top-Down (Squalify)
Best Used For Operational risk assessments and control evaluation Strategic decision-making, board reporting, and cyber budgeting
Level of Analysis Technical systems and individual assets Company-level exposure across business units and geographies
Risk Aggregation Asset-centric focus means that aggregation to company level requires additional analysis and complexity. Focuses on risks aggregated to company level by design.
Data Input User estimation required for all frequency and severity parameters. Frequency estimates largely provided based on historic data and simple company information.
Time & Effort Weeks or months Days; no integrations

Want To Go Deeper?

Download the FAIR vs. Squalify whitepaper to see where traditional models fall short - and how a top-down approach delivers faster, board-ready results.

Trusted by Industry Leaders

With the Squalify platform, we now have a clear view of which business scenarios could hit us hardest and how our cyber risk posture has shifted over the past 18 months. It’s the first time I’ve been able to show my Executive Board, with confidence, that we’re focused on the right threats and making measurable progress.
Brian Cook
Senior IT & Security Manager, Henry Meds
With Squalify, I can finally track the impact of our cybersecurity investments and ensure we only fund initiatives that actually reduce our cyber risk.
Dr. Tim Sattler
CISO, Jungheinrich I President, ISACA Germany Chapter
KROSE’s cyber insurance advisory is already among the best in the market. With Squalify, we give our clients an outstanding way to quantify cyber risks in financial terms and tailor their coverage even more precisely to their actual needs. Together with Squalify, we create additional value for our clients.
Leopold Muhle
Managing Partner, KROSE
Squalify gives us results faster and with higher quality than anything we've used before.
Volker Burgers
Partner and Cyber Strategy Lead, Deloitte Germany
Our experience working with Squalify was excellent. Their analysis gave us the clarity we needed to validate our cyber risk mitigation strategy and related investments.
Roland Boxhammer
Director Insurance Risk Management, MTU Aero Engines

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