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How Beazley Security
Built a Culture Where Curiosity Drives Growth
MAYA CULTURE AWARD WINNER I 2025
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The cyber risk management firm proving that BASIC values create extraordinary resilience in fast-growing tech companies
Beazley Security exists to help clients develop true cyber resilience, improving their ability to withstand and recover from any cyberattack. This global cyber risk management firm brings together decades of cyber security expertise across protection, detection, response, and recovery. Backed by the actuarial precision and risk mitigation capabilities of its parent company, Beazley Insurance, it provides the insight and data needed for meaningful, board-level discussions and redefines what it means to safeguard organizations.
Beazley Security was formed in 2024 by integrating a cyber security services firm with the cyber incident management experts supporting Beazley’s global cyber insurance business. Launched as a remote-first business with staff and operations across many countries, Beazley Security has since grown from 35 people two years ago, to over 160 today – with an additional 50 employees planned by the end of 2026.
Its ranks include experts in threat detection, incident response, digital forensics, offensive security, risk management, consulting and cyber resilience. These teams are engaged in over 5,000 cyber events every year, experience that forms the basis for their unique perspective on cyber risk. Beazley Security has used these insights to develop evidence-based products, services and controls that meaningfully and provably address risk and enable clients to confidently answer "yes" when asked if their organization is prepared to handle major cyber security crises.
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Behind this explosive growth lies a workplace culture that recently earned Beazley Security recognition on the Breakthrough Culture Awards list, marking them as one of the most thriving multi-national companies to work for. Building its culture around BASIC core values (Belonging, Accountability, Service, Integrity, and Curiosity) helps define and guide employees in their growth and is central to every interaction – with clients as well as those with colleagues, peers, and partners.
Drawing experts with specializations spanning threat detection, incident response, digital forensics, offensive security, risk management, and cyber resilience, Beazley Security brings decades of front-line experience protecting organizations from ever-evolving cyber threats.Their teams routinely manage over 5000 cyber events annually, experience that is the foundation for their unique perspective cyber risk. They uses this data and experiences to develop evidence-based products, services and controls to meaningfully and provably reduce risk and enable clients to confidently answer "yes" when asked if their organization is prepared to handle major cyber security crises.
Operating as a remote-first business with staff and operations across many countries, Beazley Security has grown from 35 people two years ago, to over 160 today. To support organic growth and continued global expansion, the business plans to add another 50 employees by the end of 2026 whilst maintaining the culture that serves as their glue through this dramatic transformation.
Behind this explosive growth lies a workplace culture that recently earned Beazley Security recognition on the Breakthrough Culture Awards list, marking them as one of the most thriving multi-national companies to work for. Building culture around BASIC core values that employees themselves defined, guides their growth and interactions: Belonging, Accountability, Service, Integrity, and Curiosity that remain central to everything they do whilst creating supportive trust environments focused on more than themselves.
"Culture is critical to supporting our ability to attract and retain the best talent in a competitive industry." This philosophy drives their approach as a fast-growing tech company with an international footprint, ensuring employees at all levels stay engaged, have opportunities to contribute, receive recognition for contributions, and have fun doing it. As one employee notes, "Since day one, our leader has set us all on the same mission and gathered us together to focus on what our 5 core values would be. Since then, we have created a healthy culture of trust with honest, respectful communication on every level." When in-person meetings happen, community service for the region becomes focal points in agendas, ranging from supporting veterans and deployed military personnel to building bikes for kids.
Implementing working groups ensures aspiring leaders can lead important business initiatives like redesigning client quarterly business review processes or developing new client onboarding content whilst celebrating recognition between peers, colleagues, and teammates for their help, support, and contributions. Any given month might see 75 or 100 different people giving 'Kudos' that essentially thank others for their support, creating what one team member describes as an environment where "people are beyond friendly and take an interest in each other professionally and as a friend." Another employee captures the leadership approach simply: "It is refreshing to work in an environment where you can ping the C-Suite on Slack with questions or have them jump on a client call."
"We really want them to feel committed to the OUTCOMES of the services that they deliver." This drives their approach to helping team members understand that often their first real client engagement happens during breaches or cyberattacks, representing the worst day in someone's career filled with stress, fear, and emotion. Taking time during monthly global all-hands calls to discuss clients, their problems, and how teams help them reach successful conclusions creates deeper understanding of client experiences.
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Understanding what clients endure equips teammates to empathize with situations whilst feeling responsible and wanting to help overcome challenges as if protecting their own families. This connection facilitates stronger team spirit internally whilst supporting an overall culture of inclusivity, service, accountability, and integrity that extends beyond individual projects to meaningful impact on organizations facing their most vulnerable moments.
Curiosity as a core value proves essential to their organizational stage through rapid growth that's quadrupled in size in 24 months whilst adding many new services and extending into new countries. People who thrive enjoy building whilst exploring, seeing gaps or experiencing delays and complications, then unpacking problems, talking to others, and devising processes, procedures, or tools that address issues and make things better for everyone.
Encouraging and recognizing employees who take initiative becomes fundamental to who they are and how they want to operate, creating environments where problem-solving gets rewarded and innovation emerges from every level rather than top-down directives. This approach proves essential in cyber security where threats evolve constantly and static thinking creates vulnerabilities that adaptive, curious teams can address through continuous improvement.
Supporting teammates outside work proves essential to having teams focused on client success through compelling packages including competitive PTO, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, and retirement programs alongside flexibilities like extended parental leave, support for charitable organizations, lifestyle allowances, and sabbatical opportunities. One employee captures this perfectly: "Family emergency comes up, just go and we will figure it out after the fact. We rally together to take care of our own without a thought of how this will affect our bottom line." As another notes, "The flexibility we get is priceless and Beazley Security truly supports its employees with what matters most for them."
Recognition as one of America's most thriving workplaces validates what employees already know about their culture. As one team member puts it, "I really feel like I'm contributing to the success of the business, it makes me feel proud to see what we are achieving." Another notes that new leadership came in about two years ago and "focused on fixing what I understand was a very bad culture. It was their main focus early on and still is now." Merging teams, relaunching brands, and nearly tripling size whilst maintaining cohesion requires intentional culture development that their 160 employees describe as collaborative, supportive, and genuinely caring, distinguishing them in competitive cyber security markets where talent acquisition determines success.
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