Cyber Resilience
In a world where cyber attacks are a certainty, making your organisation resilient is critical to your commercial success.
Cyber resilience means you have established the capabilities that enable you to repeatedly manage incidents when they occur, time and time again.
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What is Cyber Resilience?
Cyber resilience is a concept that brings information systems security, business continuity and organisational resilience together.
It is the ability to continue delivering outcomes despite being faced with a challenging cyber event, natural disaster or economic downturn. A good measure of how cyber resilient your organisation is how well you can continue their core operations with little to no downtime.
Cyber resilience is about building an organisation that has strong foundations and systems that are adaptable, flexible and able to recover quickly. When you build a house to withstand storms, you focus on solid foundations, a reinforced roof and a plan for when damage occurs – you don’t just patch leaks every time it rains. Cyber resilience applies the same concepts to the business environment.
What's Included?
Risk Identification
We identify key hazards that could disrupt your operations and prioritise them based on likelihood and impact.
Business Continuity
Our team develops strategies to minimise downtime, outlining how critical functions will remain available or be swiftly restored after a disruptive event.
Disaster Recovery
We design recovery solutions including backup processes and failover systems to ensure you can bounce back quickly when incidents occur.
Architecture Resilience
We review your existing infrastructure, recommending design improvements such as redundancy, secure configurations and fault tolerance.
Emergency Procedures
We train your workforce on emergency procedures and resilient practices, helping them adapt, collaborate and maintain productivity during crises.
Continuous Testing
We conduct regular simulations and drills, validating the resilience measures in place and identifying areas for ongoing refinement.
Challenges Addressed by Cyber Resilience
Complacency
Organisations often lack proper awareness of what would happen under crisis, often stemming from a “it’ll never happen to us” mentality. Consequently, businesses experience extended downtime, loss of customers and both financial and reputational damage.
Changing Threats
The cyber threat landscape is always evolving, with cyber threat actors increasingly finding new means to evade detection and target your core operations. The rise of reliance on third party organisations for critical systems has meant now more than ever, businesses need to have a high level of cyber resilience.
Resource Constraints
Limited budgets, staffing shortages and competing priorities, means SMBs often do not have the ability or time to invest in robust cyber resilience measures. As such, building cyber resilience often gets de-prioritised until a disaster actually strikes.
Maintaining Compliance
The regulatory landscape is starting to focus heavily on building cyber resilience, over simple protection and detection. This includes new regulations such as the recently introduced Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in the UK.
Complacency
Organisations often lack proper awareness of what would happen under crisis, often stemming from a “it’ll never happen to us” mentality. Consequently, businesses experience extended downtime, loss of customers and both financial and reputational damage.
Changing Threats
The cyber threat landscape is always evolving, with cyber threat actors increasingly finding new means to evade detection and target your core operations. The rise of reliance on third party organisations for critical systems has meant now more than ever, businesses need to have a high level of cyber resilience.
Resource Constraints
Limited budgets, staffing shortages and competing priorities, means SMBs often do not have the ability or time to invest in robust cyber resilience measures. As such, building cyber resilience often gets de-prioritised until a disaster actually strikes.
Maintaining Compliance
The regulatory landscape is starting to focus heavily on building cyber resilience, over simple protection and detection. This includes new regulations such as the recently introduced Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in the UK.
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Benefits of Cyber Resilience
Achieving strong cyber resilience boosts trust among regulators, clients and customers, ultimately gaining a competitive advantage through more efficient operations.
Competitive Advantage
Cyber resilience can enable a competitive advantage for organisations, particularly if you build management systems based on best practices, such as Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Similarly, you can enhance your operational effectiveness generating significant value for your customers.
Customer Trust
By implementing a cyber resilient strategy and practices, you demonstrate to your customers that you take cyber security seriously. This boosts your reputation and trust, which is especially important for growing businesses that handle sensitive customer information in an increasingly security conscious market.
Simplified Compliance
By virtue of becoming more resilient, you will manage your digital assets more effectively. Meeting the requirements of regulations and certifications such as GDPR, Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001 and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) become much more straightforward.
Rapid Recovery
You can trust that even in the face of a major disruption, your in-built cyber resilience will ensure your systems recover fast, leading to minimal downtime and a smooth flow of business.
Tailored Resilience
Our approach to cyber resilience and business continuity ensures that as your business grows and needs change, so does your resiliency strategy. Our services evolve with you so that you are always protected based on your current state.
Peace of Mind
Knowing that your business is prepared for a ‘bad day’ means you can focus on strategic initiatives to propel your business forward and meet your objectives. You have the peace of mind that even in the event of a major disruption, you have the mechanics in place to come back to full operations fast.
Adaptability and Learning
Cyber resilience is not a static process. We help perform the post-event response assessment to determine what has been done correctly and what has gone wrong after the incident to prevent similar problems in the future. Incident analysis makes sure that organisations are positioned to adjust to new risks as they arise.
Safety Based Culture
Having the right cyber resilience strategy and processes in place empower your people to remain calm and act accordingly in the case of a major event. This promotes a safe and secure culture amongst your teams.
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Case Study: UK Software Developer
Client Challenge
We worked with a UK client in the software development industry who offered tailored coding services to clients across the globe, covering application and system development.
Their operations spanned multiple continents centred around customer information, increasing the complexity of their critical systems and processes.
They did not have any cyber resilience strategy or continuity plans to respond to a major cyber incident or disruption to their business operations, leaving them vulnerable.
Our Approach
To fill this capability gap, CyPro partnered with the client and developed comprehensive Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) plans. These were not only technically focused but aligned to their strategic objectives. Our approach involved several key components:
- Risk Assessment & Business Impact Analysis (BIA): We began by conducting a risk assessment and BIA to understand the most critical business functions and the potential impact if these were to go down.
- Business Continuity Plan (BCP): Based on the findings and prioritisation, we then worked with the client to develop a tailored BCP that included detailed processes for how to respond to an array of different types of disruptions. These included different cyber attacks.
- Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP): For the DRP, we focused on establishing clear recovery objectives, including Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for all critical systems.
- Employee Training: We provided engaging training for employees at all levels of which included data protection best practices and recovery procedures.
- Ongoing Monitoring & Testing: We introduced a continuous monitoring system for the client to detect potential threats early and test the functionality of the recovery processes.
Value Delivered
Reduced Downtime
They now have the ability to recover from significant disruptions nearly three times as fast, ensuring minimal business service downtime.
Customer Trust
Customers and partners now have more confidence in the company’s ability to handle unforeseen disruptions without affecting service.
Operational Efficiency
They can now recover critical systems quickly, enabling significantly more resilient operations during any emergency.
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Who Needs Cyber Resilience?
Cyber resilience is no longer exclusive to large enterprises such as Banks or Hospitals:
- Small To Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs): SMBs often face the same cyber threats and critical disruptions as large enterprises. Then difference is SMBs lack the resources to dedicate to building a robust resilience strategy and process. Cyber resilience offers them with a clear path back to operations following a major event, ensuring disruptions are responded to and managed quickly, without overstretching internal resources.
- Fast Growing Companies: Companies undergoing rapid growth or scaling through mergers and acquisitions require security measures that can expand with them. A cyber resilience strategy ensures that their security scales with new offices, technologies, or markets, e.g., a technology startup expanding internationally and facing new regulatory requirements.
- Companies Targeted By Cyber Criminals: Industries like finance, healthcare and telecommunications maintain critical information and infrastructure. As a result, they are often subject to targeted cyber attacks. The public rely on them to deliver on their objectives as well as needing them to meet regulatory requirements. A cyber resilience strategy helps them achieve this.
- Organisations With Compliance Requirements: Companies in regulated sectors must adhere to strict standards (e.g., GDPR, DORA, ISO 27001). A cyber resilience strategy helps ensure ongoing compliance by developing a cohesive response to disruptions and business continuity that could jeopardise regulatory status, e.g., a financial institution needing to meet stringent DORA requirements.
Who Doesn’t Need Cyber Resilience?
- Micro Businesses with Minimal IT Assets: Very small businesses with limited online presence and digital resources, such as a local service provider (e.g., a small plumbing business), may only need basic cybersecurity and business continuity measures rather than a full-scale cyber resilience services.
- Businesses with Minimal Compliance Requirements: Companies that do not fall under strict regulatory or compliance requirements, such as a small local consultancy that doesn’t handle sensitive customer or financial data, may not need the rigorous plans for resiliency.
Our Approach
We easily integrate with your operations and scale with your business as it grows.
Initial Discovery
The first stage involves preparation to allow us to understand what matters to you. This is supported by maturity and risk assessments to set the groundwork for resilience by a thorough review of the company’s existing IT infrastructure, business processes and cybersecurity measures.
Business Impact Assessments
Working with the business, we help you define business priorities to establish clear objectives for resilience, including acceptable downtime metrics, recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).
Risk Assessment
Aligned to the business prioritises, a comprehensive risk assessment is performed to identify risks to operations using assessments like Business Impact Analysis and Threat Modelling. We then look to to prioritise recovery strategies based on potential impact to the business.
Develop Recovery Plans
We then partner with you to develop and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans. We also ensure the right controls are in place to support these, including firewalls, anti-virus systems, encryption, backups, system redundancy and incident response tools.
Employee Training
Once developed, we train employees to recognise and respond to cyber threats. In conjunction with ensuring they understand the plans in place, we conduct regular phishing tests, simulations, and exercises for handling incidents.
Incident Response Plans
We go a layer deeper than business continuity and disaster recovery plans, creating comprehensive incident response plans outlining roles, responsibilities and steps to restore operations quickly.
Test and Refine
We regularly test and refine business continuity and disaster recovery plans using simulations, stress tests and penetration testing. This ensures vulnerabilities are identified and mitigated. We continuously assess performance and adapt to new threats, refining plans to maintain their effectiveness as technologies and risks evolve.
Monitor and Measure
To ensure the plans are continually evaluated, we establish real-time monitoring systems to detect potential issues early. We also co-create ways to measure success using KPIs like recovery time, incident impact and response effectiveness. The plans are also updated as new threats and technologies emerge.
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Rob McBride
Rob is a Founding Partner at CyPro and a highly experienced CISO. Beginning his career with a successful tenure at Deloitte, Rob has since amassed a wealth of experience, notably serving as a cyber security advisor to the UK government and spearheading cloud security transformations for several global banks.
At CyPro, Rob leads the managed service business line, working extensively across multiple sectors including telecommunications, technology, higher education, travel, and retail. He is passionate about equipping small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with robust cyber security strategies to fuel their growth.
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An Executive MBA graduate from Yale, Brandon brings years of experience working with financial institutions, helping them tackle cyber risks.
As a cyber security and emerging technology professional, he brings a unique blend of business acumen and technical expertise. With a passion for staying ahead of the curve, he has a track record of delivering successful initiatives and projects in cybersecurity, fraud, AI and engineering. For example, in a collaboration with Telstra he integrated cutting-edge AI algorithms to deliver an advanced scam detection solution that reduced fraud losses by 35%.
He is an MBA alumni at AGSM at UNSW Business School and has completed executive education programs at Yale School of Management and Stockholm School of Economics, focusing on behavioural science. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Originating from Deloitte, Ellie brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her role as a Cyber Security Manager.
She specialises in the field of threat intelligence, enabling clients to proactively identify and respond to threats before they escalate into issues.
Technically adept and highly knowledgeable, Ellie excels at developing robust security strategies tailored to each client’s unique needs.
Known for her warm and collaborative approach, Ellie is a natural motivator and people person, making her a trusted partner in implementing and operating effective security controls.
Comparison: Cyber Security vs Cyber Resilience
Although the two concepts are tightly coupled, both cyber resilience and cybersecurity have different purposes. Cyber security focuses on defence, whereas cyber resilience takes a broader view, entailing recovery and adaptability post-attack.
Cyber Resilience
- Recovery – Focuses on maintaining business functionality and quick recovery after cyberattacks.
- Future Proof – Ensures the organisation can continue operating in the event of disruptions.
- Capabilities – incident response planning, disaster recovery protocols and continuity of operations during and after an attack.
- Required Stakeholders – Requires a holistic cross-departmental approach combining technological and organisational preparedness.
- Who Is This Best For? More mature organisations who already have basic cyber security controls and capabilities established, such as cyber incident response.
Cyber Security
- Protection – Focuses on protecting systems and data from cyber threats, emphasising prevention.
- Preventing Impacts Today – Prevents breaches, intrusions and disruptions to sensitive data.
- Capabilities – controls such as firewalls, anti-virus software, intrusion detection systems and encryption. Primarily preventive, aimed at blocking attacks before impact.
- Required Stakeholders – Primarily IT and Security departments.
- Who Is This Best For? Organisations who are just starting out their cyber security journey (one cannot have resiliency without basic cyber security).
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is cyber resilience?
Cyber resilience refers to an organisation’s ability to anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber threats and security incidents. Unlike traditional cyber security, which focuses primarily on preventing attacks, cyber resilience assumes that breaches and disruptions will occur and focuses on ensuring business continuity despite security threats.
Building cyber resilience involves developing a risk-focused plan that includes preventative security measures, incident response strategies, and recovery protocols. Organisations with strong cyber resilience can minimise downtime, protect critical assets, and reduce financial and reputational damage caused by cyber attacks.
Our cyber resilience services help businesses develop comprehensive resilience frameworks, ensuring they remain secure and operational even in the face of advanced cyber threats.
- What is the difference between cyber security and cyber resilience?
Cyber security and cyber resilience are closely related but serve different functions.
Cyber security focuses on defending an organisation’s systems, data, and networks against cyber threats through measures such as firewalls, encryption, and access controls. It is largely preventative, aiming to stop cyber attacks before they happen.
Cyber resilience, on the other hand, takes a broader approach, assuming that attacks will occur despite strong security measures. It incorporates preparedness, incident response, and recovery strategies to ensure that an organisation can continue operating during and after a security breach.
In essence, cyber security is about defence, while cyber resilience ensures adaptability and recovery. Both are essential components of a comprehensive security strategy, and organisations must implement both to effectively mitigate risks and maintain business continuity.
Our cyber resilience services integrate proactive security measures with incident response and recovery planning, ensuring that businesses remain protected and operational at all times.
- What are the goals of cyber resilience?
The primary goal of cyber resilience is to reduce the impact of cyber threats and ensure an organisation can continue operating even in the event of a security breach. A well-developed cyber resilience plan achieves the following objectives:
- Prevent security incidents by identifying vulnerabilities and strengthening cyber defences.
- Detect threats quickly using continuous monitoring and threat intelligence.
- Maintain essential business functions even during a cyber attack.
- Minimise downtime and disruption by implementing effective incident response and recovery strategies.
- Restore critical business functions rapidly after an attack, ensuring minimal operational and financial impact.
- Continuously improve security posture by learning from incidents and adapting defences accordingly.
Organisations that prioritise cyber resilience can better withstand cyber threats, reduce financial losses, and maintain trust with customers, partners, and regulatory bodies.
Our cyber resilience solutions are designed to help businesses enhance their ability to prevent, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents, ensuring long-term security and stability.
- What are the three R’s of cyber resilience?
The Three R’s of cyber resilience—Resist, Recover, and Rebuild—form the foundation of an effective resilience strategy.
Resist – This phase focuses on preventing attacks through strong cyber defences, such as robust security policies, advanced threat detection, and employee awareness training. A well-prepared organisation has measures in place to reduce the likelihood of a successful attack.
Recover – In the event of a security breach, businesses must have recovery strategies in place to restore critical systems and resume normal operations as quickly as possible. This includes incident response plans, disaster recovery solutions, and backup management to minimise downtime and financial losses.
Rebuild – After an attack, organisations must analyse the incident, identify weaknesses, and strengthen their defences to prevent future occurrences. Learning from past breaches allows businesses to continuously improve their security posture, making them more resilient against evolving threats.
By implementing the Three R’s, businesses can reduce their exposure to cyber risks, ensure rapid recovery from incidents, and strengthen their overall security resilience.
Our cyber resilience services provide expert guidance in developing customised resilience frameworks that align with industry best practices and compliance requirements.
- How does cyber resilience align with regulatory requirements?
Many regulatory frameworks and industry standards emphasise the importance of cyber resilience. Compliance requirements such as ISO 27001, GDPR, and NIST mandate organisations to implement security measures that protect sensitive data and ensure operational continuity.
Cyber resilience plays a key role in meeting these regulatory obligations by:
- Ensuring data protection measures are in place to prevent unauthorised access and breaches.
- Maintaining business continuity plans that outline how organisations respond to security incidents.
- Implementing risk management frameworks that align with industry security standards.
- Providing audit trails and reporting mechanisms to demonstrate compliance to regulators.
Businesses that fail to implement cyber resilience strategies risk non-compliance penalties, reputational damage, and operational disruption.
Our cyber resilience services help organisations achieve and maintain regulatory compliance while strengthening their security posture.
- Can small businesses benefit from cyber resilience strategies?
Absolutely. Small businesses are often prime targets for cyber criminals due to perceived weaker security controls. Cyber resilience ensures that even smaller organisations can detect, withstand, and recover from cyber attacks without experiencing significant disruption.
Small businesses can benefit from cyber resilience by:
- Reducing the risk of financial loss caused by cyber incidents.
- Ensuring continuity of operations even in the face of ransomware or data breaches.
- Enhancing customer trust by demonstrating a commitment to security.
- Meeting regulatory compliance requirements without large-scale security investments.
We provide tailored cyber resilience solutions for small businesses, offering cost-effective strategies that improve security and ensure operational continuity.
- How can my organisation get started with cyber resilience planning?
Getting started with cyber resilience requires an assessment of current security measures and identifying areas for improvement. Our team at CyPro offers comprehensive cyber resilience planning, helping businesses develop tailored strategies that align with their risk profile and operational needs.
To ensure your business is prepared for and resilient against cyber threats, contact us today for a consultation. Our experts will work with you to develop a robust cyber resilience strategy that enhances security, minimises risks, and ensures long-term business continuity.
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