Cyber attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Not being able to respond effectively to a cyber attack can have serious consequences and threaten the survival of organizations.
We propose a 5-point approach to get your recovery strategy off to a pragmatic and effective start.
01 Assume you will be attacked, prepare your plan
Anticipate the possibility that it won't just happen to others, and start preparing to respond to adversity. Bring business and technical teams together to lay the foundations of a response strategy to a major cyber attack. Identify potential risks and impacts on the organization, build consensus around issues and objectives. Assign clear responsibilities and move forward as a team.
02 Minimum Viable Company (MVC)
Identify all the critical elements needed to restart the business in the event of an attack, in order to maintain services vital to the organization. Bring business and technical teams together to ensure that no critical services or dependencies are overlooked in the preparation. Identify and document expectations in terms of recovery objectives (Cyber Recovery Point Objective, Cyber Recovery Time Objective). Define the organizational, operational and technological resources required for the corresponding incident response plan.
03 Sanctuarisez vos éléments critiques, exploitez la puissance de l'IA
Protect your SVM in a sanctuary physically and logically isolated from the production network. Analyze the elements at the heart of this Cyber Vault with advanced corruption detection mechanisms based on historization and artificial intelligence. Make sure you think of the architecture and operations model in a zero-trust paradigm, so that this environment is the starting point for your last line of defense in total confidence.
04 Increase your ability to rebuild effectively after an attack
Identify the different recovery scenarios based on the incidents considered in your plan. Set up the technical environments, response processes, roles and responsibilities that will support your resilience objectives. Develop the business case to work as closely as possible, putting the direct cost (financial loss, unavailability of business services) or indirect cost (reputation, breach of compliance, etc.) of the impact into perspective with the budget for such an initiative.
05 Integrate the plan into your processes, and focus on continuous improvement
Extend your current business continuity plan with a cyber incident response plan. Develop recovery procedures (runbooks) and automate them as far as possible (playbooks) to ensure efficient and rapid recovery. Implement a continuous improvement and change management process to ensure that the SVM, Cyber Recovery architecture and all processes (Incident Response Plan, runbooks/playbooks) reflect all changes made in production to protect the SVM.
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