Cyber Resilience & Continuity Validation. Know you can recover, before you have to.
Most continuity plans are written once and filed away. We put yours under real cyber pressure: validate your recovery targets, prove your backups restore, and rehearse the bad day so the plan works when it counts.
A recovery target on paper is a guess. The first time most teams discover a backup will not restore is the day they need it. Resilience is something you prove, not something you write down.
Regulators under DORA and NIS2, and insurers at renewal, now ask the same thing: have you tested this, and when. We turn your continuity plan into a rehearsal against the scenarios that actually take companies down, then hand you the evidence that the plan holds.
A bad day, played out against the clock
We run a real scenario end to end and measure it against your recovery targets. Here is one validated run, from detonation to resumed operations.
Impact
Encryption begins spreading across a shared file server.
Detect
The iTDC flags mass-encryption behavior and alerts a Security Analyst.
Contain
The affected segment is isolated through a Human-In-Loop gate. Spread stops.
Recover
Clean backups are validated and critical systems are rebuilt.
Resume
Operations are back, inside the four-hour target.
Illustrative validated run for one scenario, not a guaranteed outcome. Real results depend on your environment, backups, and recovery design.
We rehearse the days that take companies down
Continuity plans are usually built for fire and flood. We test them against the cyber scenarios that are far more likely to put you on the front page.
Ransomware detonation
Mass encryption across shared systems, with backups as the only way home.
Supply chain compromise
A trusted vendor or software update becomes the entry point into your network.
Cloud region outage
A primary cloud region goes dark and failover is the only path to staying open.
Destructive data loss
Deliberate deletion or corruption of production data and its nearest backups.
Identity provider failure
The system that authenticates everyone is down or compromised, locking staff out.
Key supplier or personnel loss
A critical provider or a few essential people are suddenly unavailable.
From the backup to the boardroom
RTO and RPO validation
We measure real recovery time and data loss against the targets you committed to.
Backup recoverability testing
We restore from your backups and confirm the data comes back clean and complete.
Executive tabletop exercises
We walk leadership through the decisions a real incident forces, before it forces them.
Failover and runbook review
We test the failover path and pressure check the runbooks people will follow under stress.
Communications readiness
We rehearse who says what to staff, customers, regulators, and the press, and when.
Board and regulator evidence
You leave with a documented result that satisfies DORA, NIS2, and insurer questions.
Where resilience sits in VIGILE
Validate the recovery, Enhance the plan
Validation lives in the Validate and Enhance motions of VIGILE. Each rehearsal proves where recovery stands today, and the gaps it surfaces feed the next round of hardening, so resilience climbs with every cycle.
See how VIGILE works ›Top 10 questions, frequently asked
A continuity plan is the document. Validation is the rehearsal that proves the document works. We take the plan you have and put it under real cyber pressure, measuring recovery against your targets and surfacing the gaps that only appear when you actually try to restore. The plan becomes something you have tested, not something you hope holds.
Most validation runs against isolated copies and recovery environments, so there is no risk to live operations. Backup restores are performed in a clean room. Where a production element must be exercised, it is scoped, scheduled, and supervised with your team, with safety holding the veto throughout.
It is common, and it is exactly why a validation matters. Many teams discover a gap the first time they try a full restore. Finding it during a planned exercise, with us alongside, is far better than finding it during a live incident. We start with a recoverability test and build the picture from there.
Each of them now expects tested, documented resilience rather than a plan on a shelf. A validation produces a dated record of the scenario run, the recovery measured against target, and the gaps closed. That evidence maps directly to the resilience testing obligations under DORA and NIS2 and answers the questions insurers ask at renewal.
At least annually, and again after any major change to your systems, recovery design, or critical suppliers. Resilience drifts as the environment changes, so a result from two years ago tells you little about today. Many clients run a focused exercise each year and a deeper, multi-scenario validation on a longer cycle.
Pricing is scoped by the systems in scope and the depth of the exercise, from a tabletop with leadership to a full restore-and-failover rehearsal. Fixed scope, defined deliverables.
The people who would own a real incident: technical leads, communications, legal, and an executive decision-maker. The exercise is designed so each role faces a real decision.
A findings report with the gaps observed, the decisions that stalled, recovery times measured against your targets, and a prioritized hardening plan with owners.
A scoped tabletop can run within weeks. Technical validation of backups and failover follows once scope and safety boundaries are agreed.
Validation is the Validate motion applied to resilience, with findings feeding Enhance so recovery capability measurably improves each cycle.
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Find the gaps in a drill, not a crisis
Book a session with a Principal Engineer. We pick a scenario that fits your risk, run it against your recovery targets, and show you exactly where the plan holds and where it bends.