Cybersecurity’s goal is to protect a business against cybercrime. While cybersecurity is an integral part of cyber resilience, cyber resilience is more all encompassing. It is built upon the understanding that no plan is 100% bulletproof.
With that said, cyber resilience’s focus lies in mitigating risk in the event of disruptive cyber events whether they be malicious attacks or non-adversarial threats like human error. It is about ensuring your organisation is prepared and able to recover after an adverse event.
CYBER RESILIENCE SERVICES
Business continuity management is all about ensuring your organisation can continue its core business functions in the face of internal and external threats. In today’s world where cyber attacks are one of the most persistent threats any business faces, it is not enough to focus on prevention or detection.
You need cyber resilience to ensure that when the worst happens, your business is prepared to recover quickly.
CYBER RESILIENCE SERVICES
Business continuity management is all about ensuring your organisation can continue its core business functions in the face of internal and external threats. In today’s world where cyber attacks are one of the most persistent threats any business faces, it is not enough to focus on prevention or detection.
You need cyber resilience to ensure that when the worst happens, your business is prepared to recover quickly.
WHY IS CYBER RESILIENCE NECESSARY?
HOLISTIC SECURITY
Cybersecurity strategy is about minimising risk of cyber attacks. But in today’s world, you have to accept that there is no way to eliminate that risk completely. Cyber resilience strategy is all about minimising impact when attacks do happen.
FORWARD PLANNING
For every cybersecurity fix that exists today, hackers are already finding new ways to exploit vulnerabilities. Cyber resilience is all about predicting new threats and building defences in anticipation of them.
DISASTER RECOVERY
Cyber attacks put your business’ finances, operations and information at risk. A key part of cyber resilience is ensuring that solid emergency processes have been put in place to mitigate the damage to core functions.
WHAT TO EXPECT
How we will work together
- The process starts with a high level approach where the board or senior management team sets the tone, objective and scope of the project.
- A simulation or desktop exercise will give a big picture view of the complexity of the problem at hand.
- Detailed reviews of the mission critical processes, services, critical assets and partner and supply chain services will follow.
- The resilience capacity of the enterprise and its ecosystem needs to be estimated and expanded if necessary.
- Recovery plans are prepared based on the existing or required resilience capacity. Examples of these plans can include how to recover from ransomware incidents and sabotage cases, backup recovery strategies.
KEY ASPECTS OF BUILDING CYBER RESILIENCE STRATEGY
- Simulations at different levels of management to acquire a realistic big picture view of the problem
- An overall strategy that drives the core logic of all plans
- Testing and training
- A continuous improvement process to ensure the plans can adapt to evolving business activities
- A critical alternative tool set that can cope with unforeseen circumstances such as if email does not work anymore
- Close communication with management
IMPROVING MISSION CRITICAL SERVICES
A mission critical service is one that is indispensable to continuing operations. We conduct business impact analysis to determine which areas require the highest level of protection and recovery strategies. This is an overview of how we go about it:
- Determine the availability of your most important systems and processes based on revenue, profit, production, customer impact and from a regulatory and legal perspective
- Give emphasis to cybersecurity triggered incidents
- Prioritise based on how much time is needed for the restoration of critical assets
- Understand the dependencies of the process to elementary services and critical application and assets
- Analyse all partner and supply chain mission critical services
FAQ
These are also referred to as mission critical information assets. These are your organisation’s most valuable assets that can cause the most damage to a business if they are compromised. Differentiating the crown jewels from critical assets is an important process when developing recovery plans because it helps to set clear priorities.
Security breaches do not just result in financial losses and downtime for a company, it tarnishes your brand reputation and deteriorates customer trust. You also potentially expose your company to penalties due non-compliance to regulations such as GDPR.
A robust cyber resilience plan is all about setting proper processes in place so that you are able to recover quickly in the event of a security breach, and minimise the damage in these areas.
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Cubic Consulting is a cybersecurity company based in Luxembourg. We bring our years of global real-world expertise to companies of all sizes.
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