Resilience that runs continuously
- Protect critical services across internal and third-party dependencies
- Make ownership, thresholds, and escalation paths explicit
- Validate capability through measurable testing and drills, not narrative assurance
Resilience requires continuity
Operational and cyber resilience is the capability to withstand, adapt to, and recover from disruption across critical services and the dependencies that support them.
It spans people, process, technology, and internal and external dependencies. It requires coordination across risk, technology, security, legal, procurement, and operations.
Questions resilience governance answers
Five elements of a continuously running operating model
Resilience becomes sustainable when these elements work as one system: decisions, execution, and feedback loop remain continuously aligned under change.
Governance and operating model
Clear decision rights, ownership, and escalation paths across the Three Lines of Defence.
- KRIs and thresholds that drive decisions, not only reporting
- Assurance validated through drills and simulations
- Risk stays measurable and steerable under change
More on this: Security Governance & Operating Models.
Critical services and impact tolerance
Define what must remain operational under stress, and what failure would mean.
- Critical service identification and business impact analysis
- Impact tolerance calibration and scenario testing
- Recovery expectations that can be validated, not assumed
Dependency and third-party oversight
Build visibility that supports decisions across internal and external dependencies.
- Concentration exposure, shared dependencies, and exit readiness
- Oversight proportional to criticality and risk
- Dependency intelligence that remains current as systems evolve
More on this: Third-Party Oversight.
Preventive control validation at the point of change
Validate preventive controls in infrastructure and deployment workflows so insecure states are blocked before they reach production.
- Prevention carries the workload; monitoring remains a targeted backstop
- Continuous evidence is generated through delivery, not reconstructed later
- Surprises and misconfigurations are reduced through early feedback
More on this: Resilience Engineering.
Transformation and delivery
Execute multi-stream programmes across organisational boundaries so resilience capability remains operational.
- Requirements engineering, roadmaps, and UAT anchored in real workflows
- Ownership made explicit for data, decisions, and remediation closure
- Execution stays consistent as scope and dependencies change
More on this: Resilience Transformation & Delivery.
What good looks like
Common traps
Patterns that turn resilience into coordination overhead instead of operational capability.
Does resilience governance work only during quarterly reviews?
If resilience work is consuming capacity without clear outcomes, this engagement focuses on an operating model that stays continuously effective under change and disruption.