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IT Solutions for The Insurance Sector

Northdoor has 30 years of experience in the insurance industry, helping clients of all sizes—from start-ups to large corporates—to manage significant business change. Our consultants have an in-depth understanding of the insurance sector, which allows us to deploy our technology capabilities to great effect.

In addition to our key technology capabilities, we also offer a portfolio of business applications which can be tailored and configured to precisely fit each client’s needs. These applications support Insurance Broking, Insurance Underwriting, and Insurance e-Business. Further details of these offerings can be found at our NdexInsure site.

Northdoor won the ‘Best use of IT in Insurance’ category of ‘European IT Excellence Award’. To support Ark Syndicate Management’s start-up in insurance, we set up NdexInsure in 11 weeks, allowing Ark to gain FCA approval.

Capability: managed services and consultancy built on decades of London Market experience

Northdoor has a formidable reputation in the insurance sector and we continue to lead the market for IT Insurance Solutions. Our applications are built in contemporary technologies in line with industry best practices and can be deployed either on premises or as cloud-based SaaS solutions.

Our consultants have a unique combination of technical competency and business understanding across broking and underwriting in the London Insurance Market, General insurance and Life markets.

We are playing a pivotal role in the world of artificial intelligence, with a key focus on cognitive analytics within the London insurance market. We are also experts in data protection: we offer world-class consultancy around GDPR compliance.

We also help the City’s financial market to industrialise their actuarial applications. Our work improves actuarial efficiency, control, visibility and overall performance.

Read our white paper on how to overcome the challenges of pricing and monitoring the risk for cyber security insurance policies.

Find out what we do for our Insurance clients

Our reputation in the financial market is perhaps best illustrated by our ACORD ‘Global Reinsurance and Large Commercial Round Trip of Data Accomplishment’ award. This was awarded for the e-endorsement functionality in NdexInsure which allows data to be exchanged in a structured format using standard messaging from industry standards body ACORD.

"Our partnership with Northdoor combines their expertise with our flexible and functionally-rich core solutions to deliver help insurance companies conduct their own comprehensive due diligence."

Adrian Morgan Executive Vice President and Head of AdvantageGo at NIIT Technologies

"Northdoor were awarded a European IT Excellence Award for the work they performed for us - we have been very impressed with the business knowledge of their consultants"

Nick Bonnar Director of Underwriting

"With Northdoor’s help, this project was outstanding - on budget and ahead of schedule. Who could ask for more?"

Tom Corcoran Managing Director

"Thanks to the systems Northdoor has developed for us, we are able to provide IFAs with easy access to flexible web-based services for the first time in the Group Risk market."

Eva Schwander Chief Operations Officer

We chose the RiskXchange platform to enhance and automate security governance of our delegated authorities and meet regulatory compliance.

Compliance Manager Faraday

"The application Northdoor built has the flexibility to interrogate data in any combination we can think of. Theoretically, there is no limit to what we can get out of the system."

David Shipley Underwriter of Syndicate 2791

"The Northdoor team demonstrated an exceptional level of commitment and diligence during their engagement and have been a crucial factor in the successful adoption of our new underwriting platform."

Les Agambar Solutions Architect

“With the help of Northdoor’s guidance, we are now better equipped than ever to deal with threats to our cyber security.”

A Lloyds of London Insurance Company Head of IT

"I believe that we have an excellent reputation in the market for successfully executing acquisitions and transitions in a timely and seamless manner. Northdoor continues to be a key factor in this."

Paul Donovan Head of IT

The RiskXchange Insurance Industry 2021 report

With the recent acceleration of remote and digital working practices in the insurance industry, along with an associated increase in cyber crime activity, managing the risk of cyber threats and reducing the impact of breaches should be a top priority for UK insurance organisations of all sizes, from small businesses to FTSE 100 corporations.

Following on from our 2020 insurance industry report, Northdoor has again partnered with RiskXchange to conduct an in-depth benchmarking exercise to help organisations in the insurance industry understand their own cybersecurity risk. New to the 2021 report is a section covering the cyber risk posture of the Lloyd’s / London market shared services providers.

The resulting report from the RiskXchange software provides a transparent view of the UK insurance industry’s current readiness to defend data and systems from cybersecurity threats.

While the overall picture is reasonably positive – with surveyed companies averaging around 760 points out of a possible 900 – there are a number of fairly serious shortcomings that the industry needs to address. For example, 54% of brokers score a D on email security, 25% of coverholders score a C for encryption, 21% of carriers score an E when it comes to network services security and 19% of shared service providers score a D for application security.

To see how your industry peers are faring when it comes to cybersecurity – and to benchmark your own organisation’s performance against them – please read the attached Northdoor and RiskXchange Cyber Risk Assessment of the UK Insurance Industry. The report includes seven key recommendations for improving your scores and securing your business against cyber risk.

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Webinar replay: UK Insurance Industry

Cyber Risk Assessment Report 2021

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IT Solutions for The Insurance Sector

Capability: managed services and consultancy built on decades of London Market experience

Find out what we do for our Insurance clients

The RiskXchange Insurance Industry 2021 report

Cyber Risk Assessment of the UK Insurance industry Benchmarking Report 2021

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