Advisory Services
Business Continuity Planning
Cyberus helps owners document practical continuity choices and assumptions for agreed disruption scenarios.
- Critical services and tolerances
- People, technology and supplier dependencies
- Workarounds and recovery priorities
- Plan ownership and exercise roadmap
The proposition
Turn cyber disruption into service priorities
Translate cyber disruption into business service priorities, dependencies and workable continuity choices. The work focuses on critical services and tolerances and records where evidence or authorization limits the conclusion.
Start from the service to sustain
Continuity begins with the service the organization must sustain.
A cyber event can remove systems, identities, data or trusted communications at the same time. Continuity planning therefore needs business owners to define acceptable disruption and the dependencies behind critical outcomes.
Cyberus supports scenario-based planning and records assumptions that need validation. The work does not certify a continuity standard or guarantee that recovery targets will be met.
Disruption to workable plan
- Critical outcomes. The services the organization must keep delivering and how long a gap can be tolerated.
- Reliance map. The people, systems, suppliers and access each outcome quietly depends on.
- Workaround choices. Practical alternatives and the conditions under which leaders decide to use them.
- Tested assumptions. Walkthroughs that check whether the plan holds up before a real disruption.
Why it matters
- Business risk: A cyber disruption without a plan forces leaders to improvise priorities while staff, customers and suppliers wait for direction.
- Decision it supports: Owners can agree what comes back first, which workarounds are acceptable and when to trigger them.
- What you receive: You receive documented priorities, dependencies, workarounds and an exercise roadmap for the agreed disruption scenarios.
A continuity plan grounded in dependencies
Service priorities
Records critical outcomes, disruption tolerances and accountable owners.
- Why it matters
- Not every service is equally urgent, and treating them alike wastes effort when time is short.
- Supports
- Deciding what to restore first
Dependency map
Connects people, sites, systems, data, identities, suppliers and communications.
- Why it matters
- A service often fails because of something hidden beneath it, such as a supplier or an identity system.
- Supports
- Seeing single points of failure in advance
Continuity strategies
Documents proportionate workarounds, sequencing and conditions for their use.
- Why it matters
- Workarounds that are thought through beforehand cost far less than those invented mid-incident.
- Supports
- Pre-agreed fallback options and triggers
Exercise roadmap
Identifies assumptions and plan elements that need walkthroughs or practical validation.
- Why it matters
- Untested assumptions are where plans usually break, so each needs a way to be checked.
- Supports
- A realistic schedule of walkthroughs and tests
How continuity planning develops
Why choose Cyberus for business continuity planning
Planning can clarify which services and dependencies need attention first. Actual continuity depends on maintained arrangements and evidence from exercises or recovery tests.
Business Continuity Planning
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as disaster recovery?
No. Technology recovery is one dependency; continuity planning starts with business services and may include people, sites, suppliers and manual workarounds.
Does Cyberus certify continuity compliance?
No certification is claimed. The engagement can help structure evidence and readiness for the organization’s chosen requirements.
Can ransomware scenarios be included?
Yes. A cyber scenario can be used to examine service priorities, identity, backups, communications and supplier dependencies.
Team certifications
Individual qualifications held by members of the Cyberus team. They are not company accreditations, and not every consultant on an engagement holds every badge.
OSCP
Hands-on penetration testing skills, from enumeration to exploitation and privilege escalation.
OSWE
Web application security skills, including source code review and exploiting complex web vulnerabilities.
OSED
Exploit development skills, including analysing Windows software and writing custom exploits.
OSCP+
Hands-on penetration testing skills, from enumeration to exploitation and privilege escalation.
CRTA
Red team analysis skills, including adversary tactics and techniques.
eWPT
Web application penetration testing skills, from assessment method to exploiting common web flaws.
eWPTX
Advanced web application penetration testing skills, including complex attack techniques.
eMAPT
Mobile application penetration testing skills for Android and iOS applications.
BTL1
Defensive security skills across security operations, phishing analysis, forensics and incident response.
eCIR
Incident response skills, including investigating, containing and analysing security incidents.
CRTE
Red teaming skills focused on Windows environments and the tradecraft used against them.
CCT
EC-Council's Certified Cybersecurity Technician (CCT) validates foundational security, network, and defense skills.
Security+
CompTIA Security+ validates core skills in baseline cybersecurity, risk management, and threats.
Plan for a cyber disruption
Identify the critical services, disruption concerns and owners who should shape the plan.