Our 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.
Professional & Managed Services
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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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Cyber Fluency for the C-Suite
Cyber fluency for the C-suite
Executives must move beyond basic awareness of digital tools to build true fluency in critical areas like AI and cybersecurity. Our Cyber Fluency service equips leaders with the essential knowledge to strengthen cyber resilience—covering both compliance requirements and the practical skills needed to effectively manage a cyber incident.
What can you expect
Each session is structured to provide rapid insights to the executive team. We focus on:
Building Foundational Knowledge – Gain a clear understanding of core cyber concepts, including cybersecurity, data governance, and resilience frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO, GDPR).
Integrate Cyber into Strategy – Align cybersecurity with business strategy, ensuring investments, innovation, and risk management decisions consider cyber implications.
Strengthen Governance & Compliance Awareness – Understand regulatory obligations, reporting requirements, and board-level responsibilities to mitigate legal and reputational risks.
Foster a Culture of Resilience – Lead by example in promoting security awareness across the organisation, empowering teams, and embedding cyber resilience into everyday operations.
“Global cybercrime damage costs are expected to grow by 15% per year over the next two years, reaching $10.5 trillion USD annually by 2025”
Forbes
For the C-suite, cyber resilience is no longer a technical issue—it is a business imperative. Leaders who understand and implement resilience strategies protect not only their data but also their reputation, customer trust, and long-term competitiveness.
Outcomes
Our outcomes based Cyber fluency service equips executives with the knowledge and language needed to understand, assess, and make informed decisions about cybersecurity risks and opportunities
Informed Decision-Making – Executives gain the knowledge to evaluate cyber risks and opportunities, enabling smarter, faster strategic decisions.
Stronger Governance & Compliance – Leadership understands regulatory obligations and oversight responsibilities, reducing exposure to legal and reputational risks.
Improved Incident Preparedness – C-suite leaders are equipped with the confidence and skills to lead during cyber crises, ensuring faster, more coordinated responses.
Enhanced Competitive Advantage – By embedding cyber resilience into strategy and culture, organisations strengthen trust, protect brand value, and drive innovation securely.
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Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment (CRMA)
The Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment (CRMA)
Evaluates an organisation’s ability to prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber threats. It measures current capabilities against a structured maturity model, across the domains of governance, risk management, incident response, business continuity, and continuous improvement, along with business verticals, region and country regulatory compliance requirements. The assessment provides a clear picture of strengths, gaps, and priority areas, helping organisations build resilience beyond basic security — ensuring critical operations can continue even during and after cyber incidents.
Cybersecurity incident response is a strategic approach to identify an incident and Minimise its impact before it causes too much damage.
According to data featured in Forbes, large organisations can lose up to £7,100 per minute in the event of a Cyber breach.
Outcomes
The Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment (CRMA) service provides clear outcomes, ensuring that organisation can rapidly address their Cyber Resilience maturity.
Clear Resilience Benchmark – A structured maturity score across governance, risk, incident response, business continuity, and compliance, providing leadership with a measurable baseline.
Identification of Gaps & Priorities – Pinpoints vulnerabilities and areas requiring urgent attention, enabling targeted investment and resource allocation.
Improved Regulatory Readiness – Aligns resilience capabilities with regional, country, and industry compliance requirements, reducing legal and reputational risks.
Actionable Roadmap for Resilience – Delivers tailored recommendations to strengthen cyber preparedness, ensure operational continuity, and drive continuous improvement.
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Cyber Resilience Scenario Exercises
Stress-Testing Cyber Readiness
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.
What You Can Expect
Each session is structured to examine the practical effectiveness of your response processes across leadership, security, IT, communications, and legal/compliance. We focus on:
Clarity of decision-making roles and escalation paths
How quickly and effectively teams communicate and coordinate
Whether current plans are understood, accessible, and actionable
How external obligations (e.g. regulatory reporting) are handled in the moment
We assess—not just discuss—how your team would perform if a critical incident were to occur tomorrow.
Common Scenarios We Deliver
We develop scenarios based on your environment and risks. Some examples include:
Ransomware:
A malicious actor deploys ransomware across your network, encrypting critical systems and halting operations until containment and recovery are achieved.
Targeted Phishing:
An employee is tricked into providing credentials or approving a fraudulent payment, resulting in financial loss and potential reputational impact.
Data Breach:
Sensitive customer or employee data is exposed, triggering internal investigation, legal review, and mandatory notifications under data protection laws.
Zero-Day Attack:
An unknown vulnerability is exploited in a key system, leading to operational disruption before a patch or mitigation strategy is available.
Insider Threat:
An employee or contractor intentionally or unintentionally leaks confidential information, raising concerns around access controls, monitoring, and response.
Compromised Vendor:
A vendor or service provider suffers a cyber incident that impacts your systems, data, or operations through shared access or integrations.
Outcomes
Our stress testing produces actionable recommendations to strengthen response strategies and reduce recovery times in future cyber events.
Before Stress-Testing
Roles and escalation paths are documented but unclear when tested under pressure.
Communication across leadership, IT, and compliance is fragmented and slows down response.
Response plans exist but may be outdated, inaccessible, or untested in live scenarios.
Regulatory reporting obligations are not fully understood or rehearsed.
Confidence in cyber resilience is theoretical, based on assumptions rather than proven performance.
After Stress-Testing
Decision-making roles and escalation paths are clarified, rehearsed, and actionable.
Teams communicate faster and more effectively, with improved cross-functional
coordination.
Response plans are validated, streamlined, and embedded into day-to-day readiness.
Regulatory and external reporting processes are stress-tested, ensuring timely compliance.
Leadership and staff have greater confidence, supported by practical experience in
simulated crisis scenarios.
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Cyber Resilience Implementation Service
A structured, end-to-end service to build, maintain, and continuously improve organisational cyber resilience.
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 .
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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01 Assessment & Discovery
ACTIVITIES
Objective:
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify CRX maturity, requirements, Risk and resilience priorities.
Scope Definition:
• Conduct Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment (CRMA) against NIST standards.
• Analyse cybersecurity & resilience measures
• Present findings to leadership and define a target resilience posture
VALUE DELIVERED
- Clear alignment on Cyber resilience goals and a cohesive, skilled team ready to execute.
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02 Business & Process Mapping
ACTIVITIES
Objective:
• Establish a structured organisational resilience blueprint, identifying critical business functions (CBFs) and interdependencies.
Scope Definition:
• Leadership Workshops to map key teams, products, and services
• Engage with teams and departments to define their Critical Business Functions (CBFs).
• Perform business process mapping for each CBF, outlining inputs, outputs, and dependencies.
VALUE DELIVERED
- Identification of the critical business functions and their interdependencies, enabling targeted risk mitigation and faster recovery
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03 Business Impact Analysis
ACTIVITIES
Objective:
• Evaluate the impact of disruptions on critical business functions and their supporting technology, people, and third parties, and provide a real-time view of cyber resilience.
Scope Definition:
• Conduct BIA sessions for each CBF to assess financial, operational, regulatory, and reputational impact.
• Perform dependency mapping, linking CBFs to systems, third-party vendors, facilities, and personnel.
• Systematize for resilience tracking and reporting
VALUE DELIVERED
- Cyber resilience dashboard/reports that provides a real-time view of critical business functions, dependencies, and response readiness.
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04 Cyber Response Planning
ACTIVITIES
Objective:
• Develop actionable resilience plans tailored to the business structure and risk profile
Scope Definition:
• Develop Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) for each team/department.
• Create Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Cyber Response Plans aligned with leadership, IT, and business teams..
• Leadership review and sign-off on all finalised plans.
VALUE DELIVERED
- Business Resilience Plans are structured for real-world execution with clear roles and escalation paths.
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05 Out-Of-Band Response Configuration & Management
ACTIVITIES
Objective:
• Set up OOB response platform and secure plans, ensuring accessibility during a crisis
Scope Definition:
• Set-up the OOB response platform, including user access and permissioning.
• Store copies of BCPs and Cyber Response Plans securely in the out-of-band response platform.
• Build out response teams and escalation rosters within the out-of-band response platform for real-time coordination
VALUE DELIVERED
- Provision of a resilient fallback path that enhances incident response, safeguards continuity, and reduces downtime in high-risk scenarios.
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06 Training & Scenario Exercises
ACTIVITIES
Objective:
• Ensure all stakeholders can navigate response plans and systems through hands-on training and real-world simulation
Scope Definition:
• Conduct Cyber Response Training for leadership, IT, and business teams on how to access and use plans.
• Host full-scale Cyber Scenario Exercises to test response plans, communication channels, and decision-making.
• Debrief and refine plans based on scenario outcomes
VALUE DELIVERED
- Enabling business readiness and compliance for cyber resilience, reducing exposure to future breaches and operational risk
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Cyber Resilience Management Services
Cyber Resilience is a Continuous Capability…
Cyber resilience management is not a one-time project but an ongoing capability that evolves with the threat landscape, business priorities, and regulatory requirements. It requires continuous monitoring, regular testing, and iterative improvements across governance, risk management, incident response, and recovery processes. By treating resilience as a living capability, organisations ensure they can adapt to emerging threats, maintain compliance, and sustain business operations even under persistent cyber pressure.
Cyber resilience Managed Services
Our Managed Service follows on from our Cyber Resilience Implementation Services and is designed to operate on a continuous, annual cycle, bringing structure to how resilience is built, tested, and refined over time.
Across the year, we revisit and update key components of your program: benchmarking maturity, refining your response plan, updating secure communication systems, running live scenario testing, and completing a formal assessment with independent certification. Each cycle builds on the last, helping you track measurable progress and demonstrate improvement to internal stakeholders, regulators, auditors, and clients alike.
Ongoing Maintenance – Continuously evaluate the organisations posture, the overall readiness and ability to anticipate, withstand, respond to and recover from cyber threats while maintaining critical business operations..
Regular Testing & Exercises – Run incident simulations, stress tests, and tabletop exercises to validate readiness.
Iterative Improvement – Review lessons learned from incidents and update policies, playbooks, and technologies.
Compliance Alignment – Continuously map processes to evolving regional and industry regulatory requirements.
Cross-Functional Engagement – Involve leadership, IT, security, legal, and business units in resilience planning.
Adaptive Strategy – Evolve resilience measures in line with emerging technologies and new threat landscapes.
Your Cyber Resilience Starts Here
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