Acturis Canada has secured a key endorsement from the Center for Study of Insurance Operations (CSIO), achieving API Security Standards Certification for its broker management system (BMS) and lifting its overall CSIO Standards Certification Rating to Gold.
The certification confirms that the company's BMS meets CSIO's requirements for secure, standardizes authentication and authorization when brokers connect to insurer systems via application programming interfaces. In practice, that means using a common security model, rather than one-off builds for each carrier, and adding protection for data as it flows between Acuris' platform and insurer back-ends. The Gold rating puts it among a select group of vendors and carriers that CSIO views as leaders in implementing data and security standards.
For a Canadian P&C market where brokers are under pressure to prove both their digital capabilities and their cyber hygiene to clients and partners, that badge is likely to feature more prominently in RFPs, vendor selection processes and carrier panel discussions in the months ahead.
“Earning API Security Certification is a meaningful achievement for Acturis and reinforces our position as a trusted partner that prioritizes data security across every aspect of broker, MGA and carrier operations,” said Gregory Toothe, managing director of Acturis Canada. “We are equally pleased to receive a Gold Standards Certification Rating and will continue leveraging CSIO Data Standards to drive efficiency and deliver an optimal insurance experience for our customers.”
Prior to its API Security Certification, Acturis obtained CSIO’s eDocs Certification by programming the updated eDocs codes and descriptions to support clearly labelled policy documents for brokers.
For brokers on the ground, the new certification has several practical implications. Standardized, secured APIs should make it easier to add new markets without months of bespoke integration work, reduce rekeying and errors and give producers faster, more reliable access to quotes, policy details, billing and documents from within their BMS.
For carriers, plugging into a CSIO-certified BMS reduces integration friction and gives additional comfort that third-party systems are handling customer data in line with industry security expectations.
The announcement was also made at a time when cyber threats to intermediaries are climbing and broker management systems are increasingly targeted as high-value gateways to insurer and client data. By baking recognized security standards into the plumbing of broker–insurer connectivity, CSIO and vendors like Acturis are trying to push security rather than relying solely on endpoint controls and user behavior.
