ICS Operational Resilience

Uninterrupted operations and rapid recovery.

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When you need it

  • A cyber event would stop production and nobody knows for how long
  • Continuity plans exist for IT but not for the plant
  • You must demonstrate continuity and recovery capability to a regulator

Operational resilience in an ICS environment means business continuity and disaster recovery that actually work. We help establish the strategies and frameworks that keep critical infrastructure running through unexpected disruption.

We assess existing operational processes to identify vulnerabilities and potential points of failure, then develop business continuity and disaster recovery plans aligned with your needs, industry regulation and risk tolerance. The focus is minimising downtime and optimising recovery, so operations withstand disruptive events such as cyber attacks or system failures and recover with minimal impact.

We also help test and validate the plans regularly through simulated scenarios and tabletop exercises, so strategies stay effective as risks and operational requirements change.

How it runs

  1. 1

    Assess

    Existing operational processes, their vulnerabilities and potential points of failure.

  2. 2

    Plan

    Business continuity and disaster recovery plans aligned with your needs, industry regulation and risk tolerance.

  3. 3

    Optimise recovery

    Minimise downtime, so operations withstand cyber attacks and system failures and recover with minimal impact.

  4. 4

    Test

    Simulated scenarios and tabletop exercises that validate the plans.

  5. 5

    Adapt

    Regular review so strategies stay effective as risks and operations change.

What you get

  • Points of failure identified across operational processes
  • Business continuity and disaster recovery plans
  • Recovery optimised to minimise downtime
  • Plans tested through simulated scenarios and tabletop exercises

Where it is used most

Questions we get asked

How is this different from incident response readiness?

Readiness is about the first hours of a security incident. Resilience is about keeping the plant running and recovering, whatever the cause.

Does it cover non-cyber disruptions?

The plans are built to withstand disruptive events, including cyber attacks and system failures.

How often should the plans be tested?

Regularly, and after significant change. We help schedule and run the exercises.

Further reading

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