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Thinking on cyber resilience, organizational risk, and the hard realities of recovery — from the team that built Sheltered Harbor.
The decision about which service to bring back first should have been made years earlier — in a quiet room, by people with level heads and time to test their thinking.
For ten years, Sheltered Harbor worked at the center of the U.S. financial sector on exactly this scenario. What follows is our point of view, formed the hard way — by getting hundreds of institutions to agree on what "minimum" really means, and then helping them make it real.
Read the Article →The continuity plan tells you how to bring everything back. It says nothing about what to do until then.
Most continuity planning starts from the wrong question: how do we recover everything? The right question is smaller and much harder: what is the least this organization can be and still be this organization — and can we prove we can hold it while we fight to restore the rest?
Read the Article →When an AI system fails — and it will — who answers for it?
Every board is asking how fast they can adopt AI. It's the wrong question. The one that decides who survives the next three years is simpler: when an AI system fails — and it will — who answers for it? If you can't name that person today, you don't have a governance gap. You have a governance vacuum, and you're filling it with vendor demos.
Read the Article →Here's the risk no one puts in the register: your risk management function.
Most enterprises today employ more people managing risk and compliance than they have people who actually understand and run the critical functions that create value. The machinery built to protect the business has grown large enough to slow it down — and in some cases, to stop it entirely. That is not risk management. That is organizational risk.
Read the Article →When the alarm sounds, nobody improvises. They execute.
It's a Tuesday morning. Every computer in your organization is offline. The phones are ringing. Here is the question that determines whether your organization survives this: Did you already decide what your people would do? Because if you are deciding now, you have already lost.
Read the Article →The Cyber Recovery Readiness Assessment gives you a concrete starting point — a scored view of where your organization actually stands across five dimensions of recovery readiness.
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