CFC vs Pie Insurance Cyber Insurance

CFC's flagship cyber product, Cyber Proactive Response, targets businesses with revenues from $0 to $250 million and pairs the policy with built-in security monitoring, incident response and claims handling rather than selling those as add-ons. ⁵Company-reported. Cyber insurance product page's Cyber Proactive Response summary; CFC separately sells Cyber (admitted), Corporate cyber for businesses at $250 million and up, and a Cyber excess policy.

Pie says it helps small businesses get the best cyber coverage 'from our insurance carrier partners,' identifying itself as an intermediary rather than the underwriter for this line. ¹²Company-reported. Cyber Insurance product page as read on 2026-09-23.

The Cyber Proactive Response application form names only CFC Underwriting Limited, an entity authorized and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority, as the party administering the form. Neither the cyber product page nor the application discloses which specific insurer or Lloyd's syndicate capacity sits behind a US Cyber Proactive Response policy. ^8,4Not publicly disclosed. Application footer and the regulatory information page, both checked on 2026-09-23; CFC also operates Lloyd's Syndicate 1988 and CFC USA Inc.'s admitted and E&S licenses, but no page ties one of these specifically to Cyber Proactive Response.

The reviewed page refers only to 'our insurance carrier partners' and does not name a specific insurer for Pie's cyber product. ¹²Not publicly disclosed. Cyber Insurance product page as read on 2026-09-23.

CFC segments cyber eligibility by revenue: Cyber Proactive Response and Cyber (admitted) are positioned for businesses with revenues from $0 to $250 million, while Corporate cyber is for businesses at $250 million and above. ⁵Company-reported. Cyber product page product summaries; actual eligibility for a given applicant depends on underwriting.

Pie markets cyber insurance to small businesses generally, cross-selling it alongside workers' compensation, commercial auto, and BOP insurance on other small-business product pages. ¹²Company-reported. Cyber Insurance product page as read on 2026-09-23; no minimum size, revenue, or industry restriction was published.

Cyber Proactive Response includes crime cover, a 12-month indemnity period for business interruption, and data recreation cover, with unlimited claim reinstatements available at either no deductible or a single deductible at most. ⁵Company-reported. Cyber product page Key features list for Cyber Proactive Response.

Pie describes its cyber policies as varying by business need, with first-party coverage for expenses when a business's own data is stolen or network hacked, and third-party coverage to help if the business is sued over a cybercrime affecting others. ¹²Company-reported. Cyber Insurance product page as read on 2026-09-23; the issued policy controls the specific insuring agreements and exclusions.

Pie lists identity theft (for an employee or customer's stolen identity), cyber extortion (help regaining private information after an extortion event), and financial protection against related lawsuits as scenarios its cyber coverage responds to. ¹²Company-reported. Cyber Insurance product page as read on 2026-09-23.

For larger businesses, CFC's Corporate cyber product (for revenues of $250 million or more) has a published maximum line size of $25 million; the Cyber Proactive Response and Cyber (admitted) pages for smaller businesses do not publish a maximum dollar limit. ⁵Company-reported. Cyber product page Corporate cyber Key features; limit for any individual policy appears on its declarations.

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Every CFC cyber policyholder gets CFC Response, described as an in-house incident-response service available 24/7, plus a free mobile app offering dark web monitoring, phishing simulations and external network deep scanning. ^6,7Company-reported. Response page and cyber brochure; CFC characterizes its incident response team as one of the largest in-house teams in the industry, a claim not independently verified here.

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The US Cyber Proactive Response application is a one-page form asking whether multi-factor authentication is enforced for remote network access and email, whether backups are offline or MFA-secured, and whether the business had a cyber incident in the last three years. ⁸Company-reported. Cyber Proactive Response application form sections on cyber security controls and previous cyber incidents.

Pie directs cyber buyers to contact the company to start a quote through its website. ¹²Company-reported. Cyber Insurance product page as read on 2026-09-23.

CFC says its in-house cyber claims team resolves several thousand cyber claims a year and reports a 99.4% cyber claims acceptance rate over a recent 12-month period. ⁷Company-reported. Cyber brochure claims statistics; these are company-reported figures and were not independently audited.

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