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Minimise the damage of a cyber attack with Crisis Management
Your business could be the victim of a hacker attack. It's a fact of life. But are you prepared for that scenario? A crisis management plan won't get your data back if it's stolen - but it will ensure you have a clear plan to get your technology operational again so you don't lose too much value. In other words, crisis management is your organisation's key to IT security resilience.
What is a crisis management plan?
In a world where cyber-attacks are a constant threat, it's crucial for organisations to have solid crisis management practices in place. In short, a crisis management plan is an actionable plan for prioritising organisational processes and associated technology and how crisis management will collaborate and restore infrastructure.
A crisis management plan prepares you for potential events that could impact your business - and ensures business continuity, which is crucial to minimise the effects of an IT outage or cyberattack. Because when business goes down, it's the crisis management plan that kicks in and makes sure you don't lose too much value.
Identify and protect your critical IT assets
Consultancy and a structured approach help ensure informed risk decisions. Our focus is on creating risk transparency and a visible balance between costs and resources needed to mitigate cyber risks.
We help identify and protect your most critical IT assets, develop appropriate plans and ensure your technical staff are equipped to recover critical systems quickly and efficiently.
Our services include building disaster recovery and business continuity plans, crisis management, and facilitating training and testing of your organisation's preparedness. This can include testing the crisis escalation process, mobilising crisis teams and internal and external crisis communications.
3 reasons why you should have good crisis management
#1
Quick response
Preparing for unexpected events ensures a fast and effective response in the event of a cyber attack. It minimises disruption and damage.
#2
Minimise consequences
A crisis management plan minimises the consequences of an IT outage or cyber attack because you are well prepared.
#3
Work optimally
Your employees and management can work more optimally in a crisis situation because you're all aligned and working from the same plan.
What our crisis management plan contains
Our plan building, testing and maintenance consists of the following:
- Identifying the most critical IT assets to understand the resilience of these assets.
- Identifying the need for business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
- Drawing up appropriate plans, including a crisis management model that ensures roles and responsibilities and decision-making.
- Instructions to technical staff on how to recover critical IT assets in a prioritised order.
Communicating the plans both internally and externally includes:
- Pre-warning exercise that measures the time to assemble the crisis management team or critical personnel.
- Structured table-top exercise with crisis management.
- Scenario-based walkthrough and test.
- Acting crisis manager during a crisis.
Our approach – your needs
Our approach is based on recognised best practice frameworks that we adapt to your specific needs. We develop the plans through meetings, workshops and interviews with key people from your organisation and ensure they are tested and ready to use.
It's important that the content of the plans fulfils your needs and expectations. That's why close dialogue is crucial to our collaboration and your involvement.