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Cyber Resilience Consulting | Resilience Guard
Cyber resilience consulting

When prevention fails, resilience decides the outcome.

Traditional cybersecurity is no longer enough. Cyber resilience is the capacity to maintain operations, protect critical assets and recover swiftly after cyber incidents, and we build it by integrating cybersecurity, business continuity and crisis response into one strategic framework.

The service

What is cyber resilience?

Cyber resilience is the ability of an organisation to prepare for, respond to and recover from cyberattacks and digital disruptions while continuing to deliver essential services. Where cyber security aims to keep attackers out, cyber resilience determines what happens when one gets in.

Our consulting integrates the disciplines that usually live apart: security controls, business continuity, incident response and executive crisis management, aligned to ISO 22301, ISO 27001, the NIST framework and the EU's NIS2 and DORA regimes. The result is a single capability in which detection triggers rehearsed escalation, continuity keeps essential services running, and recovery restores to defined RTO and RPO rather than to hope.

Engagements are tailored to the sectors where the stakes are highest: government and the public sector, critical infrastructure in energy, water and transport, financial services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and technology, whether you are building the capability for the first time or hardening one that an assessment has found wanting.

Alignment
ISO 22301, 27001, NIST
Regimes
NIS2, DORA
Recovery
Defined RTO and RPO
Validated by
Cyber crisis exercises
RESILIENCE IN DEPTH, NOT DEFENCE ALONEEssentialservicesWITHSTANDRESPONDRECOVERPrepare and identifyProtectDetectRespondRecoverCyber security keeps attackers out; cyber resilience keeps the organisation running when one gets in.
Resilience in depth: essential services kept running by withstand, respond and recover layers, spanning the five elements from prepare and identify through recover.
What we deliver

The cyber resilience service line

Cyber resilience assessment. Existing security and continuity capabilities evaluated, critical business functions and digital dependencies identified, resilience maturity benchmarked and improvements prioritised.
Strategy and framework development. A tailored cyber resilience strategy aligned to ISO 22301, ISO 27001, NIST and EU directives, with governance, roles and escalation paths defined.
Incident response and crisis management. Response plans developed and tested, cyber tabletop exercises facilitated, and real time support during major incidents.
Continuity and recovery planning. Continuity plans integrated with cyber recovery procedures, RTO and RPO mapped, and alternative communication and coordination protocols established.
Training and awareness. Cyber resilience workshops for leadership and staff, awareness of phishing, social engineering and insider threats, and a culture of preparedness, deepened through CRLE 2000 and Operation HELVETIA.
Questions

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between cyber security and cyber resilience?+

Cyber security is the discipline of preventing attacks; cyber resilience is the capacity to keep delivering essential services and recover swiftly when prevention fails. Mature organisations treat security as one layer inside a resilience capability, not as the whole answer.

Which frameworks does your cyber resilience work align to?+

ISO 22301 for continuity, ISO 27001 for information security management, the NIST framework functions from identify through recover, and the EU regimes NIS2 and DORA, so one capability serves certification, supervision and reality.

How do you test cyber resilience?+

Through cyber crisis exercises built on ransomware, data breach and IT and OT disruption scenarios, from tabletop to full simulation, including our gamified format Operation HELVETIA. See exercise formats.

Which sectors do you support?+

Government and public sector, critical infrastructure in energy, water and transport, financial services and fintech, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and technology, each with sector tailored scenarios and regulatory mapping.

Can you support us during a live cyber incident?+

Yes. Our practitioners support crisis teams in real time: response structure, executive decision support and communications discipline while the technical response proceeds, then a post incident review.

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Related services

Cyber and security

Information Security

Confidentiality, integrity and availability protected through a living ISMS aligned to ISO 27001.

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Cyber and security

Supply Chain Security

The risk you inherit from suppliers and shared platforms: mapped, assured, contracted and exercised, per ISO 28000, NIS2 and DORA.

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Regulation and crisis

NIS2 Compliance

From scope determination to Article 21 measures and 24 hour reporting readiness under Directive (EU) 2022/2555.

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Regulation and crisis

DORA Compliance

The five pillars of Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 implemented for financial entities and their critical ICT providers.

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Continuity and resilience

Business Continuity Exercises

Tabletop, functional, cyber and full scale exercises that prove the plans and evidence ISO 22301, NIS2 and DORA.

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Regulation and crisis

Crisis Management

Doctrine, structures and communications that contain the peak and shorten the recovery, anchored on ISO 22361.

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Continuity and resilience

Business Continuity Management

BIA, ISO 22301 aligned strategy, plans and validation: a continuity programme built to survive contact with a real disruption.

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Continuity and resilience

Organisational Resilience

The structure above the plans: risk, continuity, crisis, cyber and people on one governed foundation, per ISO 22316.

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Sector framework

DAEDALUS Airport Resilience Framework

The Airport Resilience Framework: five domains as one operating model across the aerodrome, powered by the 7A engine, in commercial, freight and business aviation editions.

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Risk and governance

Risk Management

From risk universe to governed risk: identification, stress aware assessment, owned treatment and live monitoring.

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Risk and governance

AI Governance and Resilience

Governance wrapped around every layer of intelligent systems, from model behaviour to board accountability and ISO 42001.

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Risk and governance

7A Risk Management Framework

Our proprietary decision centric operating model: exposure and decision confidence measured separately, for the board.

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Next step

Assume the breach; decide the outcome.

Start with a cyber resilience assessment; we will show you which essential services would hold and which would not.

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