Cyber Recoverability

Cyber threats are constant.  
Your resilience should be, too

Plan. Practise. Prove you can recover.

Cyber Recoverability is now a core expectation for customers, regulators and insurers. But recovering from a cyber attack involves more than restoring systems. It’s both complex – and critical.

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What does it take to recover from a cyber attack?

It requires leadership, coordination and clear decision-making under pressure. 

Legal, reputational and operational risks must be managed alongside technical recovery. 

The organisations that do this well don’t just recover – they emerge stronger, with trust and reputation intact.

We help you turn Cyber Recoverability from a plan into a proven capability.

It’ s built through expert assessment, planning and immersive exercising.

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Service Components

Cyber Recovery Assessment

Assess your organisation’s readiness to recover from a cyber attack, across people, processes and technology.

Cyber Recovery Planning

Develop or enhance your Cyber Recovery Plan – your command-and-control framework for responding to a cyber attack.

Cyber Recovery Exercises

Turn plans into practice with immersive, NCSC assured exercises that build real world recovery capability.

How we do it

Step 1

Assessment

Assess current recovery posture against leading practice (NIST, NCSC CAF). Identify third-party risks, recovery conflicts and readiness gaps.

Step 2

Planning and design

Develop a Cyber Recovery Plan that aligns leadership and technical teams. Define recovery objectives, roles and responsibilities (RACI), timescales and recovery processes.

Step 3

Exercising and validation

Design and deliver tailored cyber recovery exercises to test leadership decision-making, team coordination and technical recovery processes.

Step 4

Review and improvement

Embed improvements and build long-term recovery resilience.

National Cyber Security Centre Assured Cyber Incident Exercise Provider

Cyber Incident Exercising with Databarracks' PlanB

Our Cyber Incident Exercising is underpinned by the expertise of Databarracks’ PlanB, an NCSC Assured Cyber Incident Exercise Provider.

We deliver Cyber Incident Exercises – including tabletop exercises, SIMEX (Simulation Exercises) and wargames – that go far beyond traditional testing and exercising to build real-world cyber readiness across leadership, Crisis, Cyber, IT and supplier teams.

Why Cyber Recoverability matters

Without proven cyber recovery capability, even the best-defended organisations are at risk. You need a clear, practised capability to restore trusted systems and data after a cyber attack. Your customers, regulators and insurers expect it. And your business depends on it.

Protect your business

Minimise financial, legal and reputational damage by ensuring fast, trusted recovery.

Lead with confidence

Give leadership and recovery teams the structure, knowledge and experience to respond effectively.

Prove cyber resilience

Prove to customers, regulators and insurers your organisation can withstand and recover from cyber attacks.

Cyber Recoverability FAQs

  • Cyber Recoverability ensures your organisation can successfully restore trusted systems and data after a cyber attack 

  • IT Disaster Recovery typically addresses system failures. Cyber Recoverability addresses attacks that compromise data integrity and trust, requiring multi-disciplinary coordination and specialised recovery processes. 

  • An assessment of your organisation’s readiness to recover from a cyber attack, covering leadership, technical teams, plans, processes, third parties and resilience gaps.

  • Plans should be tested at least annually, with regular tabletop exercises and ongoing reviews to ensure they reflect your current business environment. 

Plan, practise and prove your Cyber Recoverability 

Talk to our experts about strengthening your Cyber Recoverability. We’ll help you assess your current readiness and design a programme to ensure your organisation can recover from any attack.

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