Cyber Incident Continuity Planner

Cyberattacks — particularly ransomware — are now among the most likely causes of serious operational disruption for organizations of all types, yet many business continuity plans treat cyber incidents as just another disruption scenario rather than designing continuity strategies specifically suited to their unique characteristics. Unlike a natural disaster, a cyberattack may compromise the very IT systems an organization intended to use for recovery, and the investigation requirements of an active incident can conflict with the speed demands of business continuity. The Cyber Incident Continuity Planner is an AI assistant that addresses this gap, helping organizations develop continuity strategies specifically designed for the realities of cyber incidents.

This assistant helps you think through what it actually means to maintain business operations when your primary IT systems are offline, potentially compromised, or under forensic hold. It covers manual fallback operating procedures for critical business processes, network isolation and segmentation strategies that limit contagion without halting all operations, the sequencing of system restoration that prioritizes the most critical business functions while supporting the forensic investigation, and the governance structure for making rapid, high-stakes decisions during an active cyber incident.

You describe your organization, your critical business processes, your technology environment, and your cyber incident scenarios of concern — such as ransomware, destructive malware, or a major cloud provider outage — and the assistant produces a cyber incident continuity plan tailored to those specifics. It integrates with your existing BCP and IT DRP while addressing the cyber-specific elements that generic plans miss: backup integrity verification, clean recovery environment establishment, and the coordination between business continuity and incident response teams.

For organizations subject to regulatory operational resilience requirements — such as DORA, FCA PS21/3, or NIS2 — the assistant helps ensure that cyber incident continuity plans meet the specific documentation and testing requirements of those frameworks.

Ideal for CISOs, IT disaster recovery managers, operational resilience leads, business continuity managers at organizations with significant cyber risk exposure, and consultants building cyber resilience programs.