Torus – Cyber Insurance & Risk Intelligence Platform
Torus by Cyber-Logica is an enterprise-grade cybersecurity insurance and cyber risk intelligence platform designed to revolutionize how organizations assess, quantify, and mitigate digital liabilities. Comparable to global InsurTech leaders like Coalition and Resilience, Torus bridges the gap between active threat intelligence and underwriting accuracy.
Synthweb partnered with Cyber-Logica as an embedded product engineering team to design, architect, and deploy the core Torus platform—delivering a high-performance system capable of automated risk telemetry, instant exposure scoring, and seamless insurance workflow automation.
The Challenge
Modern organizations face sophisticated, fast-evolving cyber threats. Traditional cyber insurance underwriting relies heavily on static, periodic questionnaires that fail to capture real-time security posture, leaving insurers exposed to unforeseen risk and clients underprotected or overpaying.
Cyber-Logica needed to build Torus to address critical industry pain points:
Static Assessment Bottlenecks: Manual underwriting forms caused delayed policy issuing and inaccurate risk evaluation.
Lack of Real-Time Telemetry: No continuous monitoring mechanism to track security posture changes over policy lifecycles.
Complex Data Aggregation: Difficulty unifying external attack surface data, threat intelligence feeds, and financial exposure metrics into a single unified dashboard.
Scalability & Enterprise Compliance: Developing a multi-tenant platform adhering to strict cybersecurity standards, regulatory compliance, and high data security guarantees.
The Solution
Synthweb engineered Torus as a modular, cloud-native InsurTech platform that combines real-time security scanning with risk-scoring algorithms to automate underwriting and active risk management.
Engineering Highlights & Platform Architecture:
Automated Risk Assessment Engine: Engineered continuous, non-intrusive attack surface scanning that inspects DNS, SSL configuration, exposed assets, domain reputation, and credential leaks.
Dynamic Risk Scoring (Torus Score): Implemented an algorithmic scoring framework that converts technical threat intelligence into monetary loss predictions and underwriting risk scores.
Interactive Client & Underwriter Dashboards: Built intuitive user interfaces catering to both enterprise policyholders (to view vulnerabilities and recommendations) and underwriters (to evaluate risk profiles and issue policies).
Actionable Remediation Workflows: Integrated real-time alerts and guided fix recommendations so clients can improve their risk score prior to policy binding.
Robust Multi-Tenant Cloud Architecture: Deployed on cloud-native microservices with automated CI/CD pipelines, strict role-based access control (RBAC), and encryption across data at rest and in transit.
Key Features
Continuous Threat & Attack Surface Monitoring: Uninterrupted scanning of web-facing assets to identify vulnerabilities before exploitation.
Instant Risk Quantification: Converts technical vulnerabilities into financial exposure metrics instantly.
Automated Policy & Underwriting Workflow: Streamlines policy quoting, binding, and renewal cycles using live security data.
Interactive Risk Intelligence Dashboard: Provides clean visual metrics, asset breakdown, threat timelines, and historical risk trends.
Security Telemetry Alerts & Integrations: Real-time notifications for critical security posture drops and new asset exposures.
Business Impact & Results
90% Reduction in Underwriting Time: Reduced risk assessment timelines from weeks to minutes using automated security scanning.
Real-Time Active Protection: Shifted cyber insurance from reactive claims payout to proactive threat prevention and risk mitigation.
Enterprise Scalability: Built to handle thousands of concurrent domain scans and real-time risk intelligence feeds without performance degradation.
High Adoption Rate: Delivered a seamless user experience that enabled rapid client onboarding and effortless navigation for underwriters and risk managers.
Tech Stack & Architecture
Frontend: React.js / Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
Backend: Node.js, Python (Data Analytics & Risk Engine)
Database & Caching: PostgreSQL, Redis
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront), Terraform
Security & Testing: Automated vulnerability scanners, OWASP top 10 compliance, Docker, CI/CD pipeline automation
