Overview

The ability to anticipate, withstand, and recover from cybersecurity threats is foundational to maintaining business integrity and stability, as well as client trust and regulatory compliance. You should focus on two key priorities to ensure resilience in the face of fast-evolving cybersecurity threats:

Proactive strategies that ensure you can withstand and recover from attacks and incursions
Robust operational and strategic planning that supports long-term stability and regulatory compliance, and preserves market confidence

Together, these priorities can transform cybersecurity into a source of competitive advantage while protecting business continuity.

Resilience: Four Critical Success Factors

As regulatory pressure intensifies and cybersecurity threats grow more sophisticated, your organization must go beyond traditional defense models. Embedding resilience across people, processes, and technology is essential to maintaining continuity, protecting reputation, and staying competitive.

How You Can Do This

1. Implement a resilience strategy.
Develop and execute a structured approach to anticipate, withstand, and recover from cybersecurity threats and disruptions, with built-in redundancy and rapid recovery measures.

2. Maintain clarity, stability, and consistency in the face of significant disruption.
Sustain your business operations through proactive risk management strategies and the development of alternative processing solutions and workarounds.

3. Demonstrate cybersecurity resilience to all market participants.
Showcase your ability to respond to and recover from cyber incidents, continuously manage and improve cybersecurity posture to prevent significant harm, foster client trust, and build customer loyalty.

4. Deploy technology solutions to support resilience.
Implement and optimize secure technologies for threat detection, incident response, business recovery, continuity and adaptive cybersecurity measures.

How Capco Can Help

We ensure that your critical business processes can be maintained even when faced with significantly degraded resources and technology infrastructure.

1. From Risk to Resilience
Evolve your third-party cyber strategy. We partner with you to assess how disruptions — such as cloud service interruptions, software supply chain attacks, or vendor breaches — could impact access to critical data and services. With a focus on external dependencies, we design governance frameworks, resilience metrics, and KPIs that enable you to monitor third-party performance and maintain critical operations under cyber stress. Our strategies align with regulatory expectations and leading frameworks, including DORA, NYDFS Part 500, FFIEC, and NIST SP 800-161, to strengthen supply chain risk management.

2.Beyond Recovery
Build cyber resilience into your business core. Resilience starts with a clear understanding of what’s critical. We help clients identify critical business functions and their interdependencies, then leverage these insights to design target-state architectures, define “break-glass” solutions, and deploy remediation strategies and monitoring controls at scale across geographies.

3. Real-Time Resilience
Drive strategic incident response in the cyber era. We strengthen clients’ incident response capabilities to rapidly identify, contain, recover, and communicate with market participants during cyber events. We lead executive- and operational-level exercises, develop supplier-focused runbooks, run simulations of internal and external threats, and deliver targeted training on response practices like mitigating data ex-filtration or isolating compromised hosts.

4. Restoration by Design
Turn backup into a strategic asset. We enable the design and implementation of robust backup and recovery solutions to ensure data integrity, meet RTO/RPO objectives, and support rapid restoration of critical services. We support continuous backup testing and leverage cloud-native redundancy and rapid failover capabilities to maintain operational continuity. In the event of a cyberattack, Capco helps deploy rapid reconstruction strategies leveraging cloud technologies and infrastructure as code (IaC) to rebuild production environments quickly and at scale.

Success Story

Client Challenge
A top 10 US bank wanted to strengthen its cybersecurity resilience across business-critical operations and control functions. The client needed to identify systemic vulnerabilities, assess resilience maturity, and develop a strategic roadmap to ensure sustained operational continuity in the face of cybersecurity threats and disruptions.

Capco's Solution

Performed a comprehensive cybersecurity resilience assessment across people, process, and technology using both quantitative and qualitative methods
Mapped current-state architecture and evaluated resilience maturity using tailored scorecards aligned with industry frameworks
Developed a gap analysis and target-state roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on impact, effort an alignment with regulatory expectations

Client Outcomes Achieved

Uncovered recurring and preventable incidents, enabling targeted interventions to reduce operational downtime
Delivered resilience maturity scorecards across organizational layers, highlighting strengths and areas for improvements
Recommended automation and tooling enhancements, reducing detection time and false positives by up to 15%
Introduced a streamlined incident model, cutting incident resolution time by 15–25%