AI Risk Assurance
The emerging category:
AI risk insurance.
Businesses are deploying AI agents capable of approving purchases, managing infrastructure, and executing workflows autonomously. Traditional insurance products were never designed for this. Barbon provides the independent technical assurance that enables insurers to underwrite AI systems with measurable confidence.
AI Risk Assurance
Enabling insurers to confidently
underwrite AI systems.
Businesses are rapidly deploying AI agents capable of making autonomous decisions - approving purchases, managing infrastructure, executing workflows. Yet one question remains unanswered: who bears financial responsibility when an AI system independently causes loss? Barbon exists to answer that question.
Security Assessment
Evaluation of the AI system's underlying infrastructure, API exposure, authentication mechanisms, and attack surface.
Governance Review
Assessment of AI governance frameworks, accountability structures, change management processes, and board oversight.
Reliability Testing
Systematic testing of AI system performance under stress, edge cases, and degraded conditions - including fail-safe behaviour.
Prompt Injection Resistance
Structured adversarial testing to determine whether the AI system can be manipulated through crafted inputs.
Jailbreak & Evasion Testing
Assessment of the system's resilience to attempts to bypass its operating constraints or extract sensitive information.
Tool Permission Audit
Review of what actions the AI agent is permitted to take autonomously - and whether those boundaries are enforced.
Data Leakage Analysis
Assessment of whether the AI system exposes sensitive organizational, customer, or third-party data through its outputs.
Hallucination Risk
Evaluation of the probability and potential financial impact of the AI system generating confidently incorrect outputs.
Decision Consistency
Testing whether the AI system produces consistent, auditable, and explainable decisions across identical or similar inputs.
Human Oversight Mechanisms
Verification that adequate human approval workflows, review processes, and emergency stop capabilities are in place.
Compliance Readiness
Assessment against emerging AI regulatory frameworks - including EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and sector-specific requirements.
Financial Exposure Modelling
Quantification of maximum financial loss scenarios arising from AI system failures, errors, and autonomous decision-making.
AI Assurance Index - Barbon Scoring Framework
Continuous AI monitoring - once deployed
Our assessment does not end at deployment. Once an AI system is operational, Barbon continuously monitors for changes that may materially alter the risk profile - detecting increasing operational risk before financial loss occurs.
Permission Changes
Detection of expansions in AI agent permissions that increase autonomous action scope beyond original assessment boundaries.
Prompt & Model Updates
Monitoring of system prompt modifications and model upgrades that may alter decision behaviour or safety characteristics.
Tool & API Changes
Continuous tracking of new tool integrations and API connections that extend the AI system's operational capabilities.
Risk Drift Detection
Algorithmic monitoring for gradual degradation in safety, governance, or reliability metrics over time.
Operational Anomalies
Real-time flagging of unexpected behaviour, unusual decision patterns, and outputs that deviate from established baselines.
Cost & Compliance Monitoring
Tracking of cost anomalies, regulatory compliance drift, and changes in the legal or standards landscape affecting the AI system.
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Ready to underwrite technology
risk with confidence?
Talk to our team. We'll walk you through our risk intelligence platform, discuss how continuous assessment differs from traditional approaches, and help you determine the right programme for your underwriting operation.
We respond to all briefing requests within one business day.