Defending Your Business Beyond the Breach.
Our mission is to provide global enterprises with the strategic architecture and operational command required to respond to and survive cyber attacks.
OctopusCRX moves organisations beyond the limitations of traditional cybersecurity, building the strategic frameworks and command structures required to navigate the complexities of a modern cyber crisis. By bridging the critical gap between technical incident response and executive decision-making, we ensure that when technical defenses are compromised, the business mission remains viable, leadership remains in control, and the trust of clients and stakeholders is preserved.
What is Cyber Resilience.
Cyber Resilience represents a strategic shift from defending the perimeter to ensuring the endurance of the entire enterprise. While traditional cybersecurity focuses on prevention, Cyber Resilience assumes the breach is inevitable and prioritizes the organization’s ability to remain operational, protect its stakeholders, and recover with certainty. A cyber-resilient organisation is prepared to:
Maintain Critical Operations: We ensure that core business functions continue to deliver value even while primary technical systems are under extreme stress or compromise.
Protect Reputation and Clients: By aligning technical recovery with business impact, we safeguard the trust of your clients and the integrity of your brand in the face of a crisis.
Accelerate Recovery and Minimize Damage: We replace guesswork with data-driven models to prioritise restoration, significantly reducing both financial impact and recovery time.
Build Permanent Readiness: We transform resilience from a static plan into institutional muscle memory, ensuring your teams are trained and capable of responding to evolving threats
How we can help.
OctopusCRX transforms your organisation's ability to anticipate, respond, and recover from cyber threats with comprehensive resilience strategies. Our tailored solutions integrate cutting-edge tools, expert guidance, and practical exercises to ensure your team is prepared for any cyber challenge.
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Our Professional Services is our end-to-end implementation engagement designed to transform your organisational resilience from a goal into a verified operational reality . We lead the ground-up build of your resilience capability, ensuring that when technical defences fail, your business mission remains viable and your reputation is protected . This includes the full implementation of our Core Services:
Cyber Fluency for the C-Suite: We establish the board-level accountability and strategic command frameworks required for leadership to lead effectively through a high-stakes cyber crisis .
Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment (CRMA): Using our Octopus iQ platform, we establish an evidence-based baseline of your current readiness, identifying critical gaps against global standards like NIST CSF 2.0 .
Cyber Resilience Planning: We design the authoritative cyber resilience framework including comprehensive Business Impact Analysis (BIA), critical dependency mapping, and data-backed recovery plans .
Out of Band Communications: We deploy and configure your hardened communications and command channel ensuring your leadership maintains secure, air-gapped coordination even during a total network compromise .
Initial Scenario Exercises: We facilitate high-fidelity wargaming to stress-test your newly built architecture, ensuring your technical and executive teams are ready to respond with certainty .
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Our Managed Services is our ongoing partnership to ensure your organisational muscle memory and strategic defences never expire. Cyber resilience is not a one-time project; it is a living discipline that must evolve with your business . We provide the continuous data, training, and benchmarking required to keep your leadership sharp and your stakeholders confident .Our annual Managed Services cycle maintains your readiness through:
Ongoing Scenario Exercises: We facilitate a regular rhythm of technical and executive simulations to build institutional muscle memory, ensuring your teams can respond instinctively to emerging threats .
Annual Planning & Data Refresh: We keep your business impact data and recovery blueprints current as your operations and dependencies evolve, ensuring your strategy is always ready for a real-world event .
Continuous Maturity Benchmarking: Using the Octopus iQ platform, we provide ongoing maturity scoring and industry benchmarking to demonstrate genuine, measurable progress to your board, insurers, and regulators .
Out of Band Readiness Testing: We conduct regular testing and maintenance of your secure communication channels to ensure absolute availability when primary infrastructure fails .
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While our framework provides a comprehensive blueprint for enterprise durability, we recognise that organisations often have specific, immediate requirements. To accommodate these needs, our Core Services can be delivered as high-impact, individual engagements tailored to your current maturity level. Whether you require a focused Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment to establish an objective baseline, a strategic Cyber Resilience Planning engagement to map business dependencies, or Out-of-Band Communications to secure executive command, each service is designed to be a standalone value-add. This flexibility allows you to target specific vulnerabilities—such as building Cyber Fluency for the C-Suite or conducting Scenario Exercises to test institutional muscle memory—while ensuring every engagement remains fully aligned with our broader standards for operational integrity.
Read more about our Core Services below.
Our Core Services
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Cyber Resilience Planning
Cyber Resilience Planning at OctopusCRX is a strategic engagement designed to establish absolute command and safeguard the core interests of the enterprise . We deliver the governance architecture and decision-making frameworks required to maintain strategic control during a crisis, ensuring your mission remains viable and your reputation is protected . By integrating data-driven Business Impact Analysis with your continuity goals, we identify critical dependencies and establish a prioritized recovery path that safeguards client trust and ensures your most vital operations return.
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Cyber Fluency for the C-Suite
Cyber Fluency for the C-Suite equips Cyber Fluency for the C-Suite equips executives with the knowledge and language needed to understand, assess, and make informed decisions about cybersecurity risks and opportunities. It bridges the gap between technical teams and leadership, enabling the C-Suite to drive resilience, compliance, and competitive advantage.
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Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment (CRMA)
We Conduct Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessments (CRMA) against global standards to provide organisations with a structured evaluation of their ability to prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. Leveraging our CompassIQ platform, the assessment delivers consistent, data-driven insights into governance, risk management, and operational resilience. By aligning to global standards such as NIST CSF, the CRMA highlights maturity gaps, benchmarks resilience posture, and generates actionable guidance to strengthen cyber defences, accelerate recovery, and improve overall business continuity.
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Out-of-Band Communications
Maintain secure, air-gapped strategic command when primary corporate networks are compromised or dark . We deploy an enterprise-grade out-of-band platform, to provide a hardened environment for communication and coordination. This ensures that you remain in control, with constant access to critical response artifacts and contact directories during a total system failure .
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Cyber Resilience Scenario Exercises
Our scenario exercises are designed to test how your organisation would perform during a cyber incident. These aren’t theoretical workshops. They simulate the kinds of challenges your leadership, technical, and support teams would face under pressure, using tailored situations that reflect your actual risk profile.
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Compliance Services
Our Compliance Services provide a clear, strategic path through complex regulations like NIS2. We assess your organisation’s current standing against global standards to pinpoint specific gaps and provide prioritised actions to address them, ensuring you move toward meeting your legal obligations while fundamentally strengthening your readiness for cyber events.
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Reduce Business Disruption
Minimise downtime and operational impact during and after a cyber incident, ensuring continuity of critical services.
The average time it takes for a company to discover and contain a cyberattack is around 277 days. This includes 207 days to identify the breach and 70 days to contain it.
*Reference Material CrowdStrike & IBM|
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Faster Detection and Response
Identify threats early and respond quickly to contain and mitigate damage before it escalates.
Companies that discover and contain breaches within 200 days save over $1 million compared to inose mat take longer.
*Reference Material UpGuard & Varonis
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Rapid Recovery and Restoration
Restore systems, data, and services quickly to normal operation, minimizing productivity and revenue loss.
According to data featured in Forbes, large organisations can lose up to £7, 100 per minute in the event of a Cyber breach.
*Reference Material Forbes
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Improved Risk Visibility
Gain clear insight into vulnerabilities, threat exposure, and potential business impacts to make informed decisions.
Cyberattacks can impact an organisation in many ways — from minor disruptions in operations to major tinancial losses. Regardless of the type of attack, every consequence has some form of cost. whether monetary or ounerwise
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Regulatory and Compliance Alignment
Meet industry regulations, data protection requirements. and certification standards (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR).
Corporations can face fines of up to $10 million, while individuals can be fined up to $500,000 for failing to comply with certain regulations, according to the ACCC.
*Reference Material ACCC
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Enhanced Stakeholder (customers/shareholders) Confidence
Build trust with customers, partners, and regulators unrougn proven resilience, transparency, and proactive risk management.
Data breaches significantly erode stakeholder confidence by damaging an organisation's reputation, leadino to financial losses, legal issues, and a loss of trust among customers, employees, investors, and regulators.
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Continuous Improvement
Learn from incidents and adapt processes, control and technologies to strengthen resilience over time.
While addressing the immediate problem is essential, many businesses overlook the importance of long-term planning and prevention.
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Resilient Culture
Embed cyber awareness, preparedness, and accountability into une organisation's culture at every level.
Reduces downtime, fewer successful attacks, and faster response times translating into significant cost savInos Io me organisation, including reduced fines, legal fees, and reputational damage.
Download our latest guide:
A Guide to Cyber Resilience: When Cybersecurity Is Not Enough
Our latest guide, When Cybersecurity Is Not Enough: A Guide to Cyber Resilience, challenges the outdated "fortress mentality" that relies on impenetrable perimeters, highlighting that despite a $150 billion global security industry, data breaches now cost organizations an average of $4.88 million. Rather than chasing the illusion of perfect prevention, this guide provides a blueprint for building composable, auditable resilience across strategic, operational, tactical, and adaptive pillars. It details how OctopusCRX bridges the gap between technical response and executive decision-making, helping leaders establish independent communication channels and develop the "muscle memory" needed to maintain critical operations even when their primary networks go dark.