Cyber Resilience
Preparation is the key to keeping critical business functions up and running in the event of a cyber attack. AHEAD helps you build comprehensive cyber resiliency plans and best-in-class cyber vault solutions to keep your systems viable when the worst comes to pass.
Cyber Vault Design for Healthcare
A large healthcare company partnered with AHEAD after recognizing that traditional backups and DR were not enough to recover safely from a ransomware attack, especially with regulators and cyber insurers increasingly expecting an isolated recovery capability. AHEAD began with a ransomware posture assessment and business impact analysis to identify Tier 0/Tier 1 services and dependencies, then designed and built a dedicated cyber vault and isolated recovery environment (IRE) with cleanroom sidecars and a standby production environment for critical clinical and platform services. As a result, the organization now has a hardened, tested path to bring core systems back online in a clean environment, even if attackers still have a foothold in production.
What are the Barriers to Cyber Recovery and Resilience?
What Cyber Recovery Services Does AHEAD Offer?
Business Impact Analysis
AHEAD’s Cyber Recovery Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a structured engagement that identifies your Tier 0 and Tier 1 services, maps critical business processes to the underlying applications and infrastructure, and defines realistic recovery priorities as the foundation for a cyber recovery program and cyber vault design.
We run interviews and workshops with business, application, and infrastructure owners, perform ransomware posture and current‑state assessments, document dependencies, and produce a recovery matrix and roadmap that align cyber vault, cleanroom, and standby production environment design to what the business actually needs first in a crisis.
You’ll gain clear visibility into which services matter most, a right‑sized and defensible cyber recovery strategy, improved cyber insurance and compliance posture, and faster, safer recovery of critical functions when an attack occurs.
Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
AHEAD’s Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning offering defines how your critical business processes and supporting infrastructure recover from disruptive events, combining business impact analysis, ransomware posture assessment, and continuity planning into a coherent, tested DR/BCP strategy.
We work with business, application, and infrastructure owners to identify and tier critical processes, map technical dependencies, set RTO and RPO targets, document and test incident response and recovery runbooks, and align plans with regulatory requirements.
AHEAD creates your realistic, executable DR/BCP program that reduces downtime and data loss, improves readiness for cyber incidents, strengthens compliance and cyber insurance posture, and gives executives greater confidence in the organization’s ability to keep critical services running.
IRE Cleanroom and Cyber Vault Design
AHEAD’s Cyber Vault is a best-in-class cyber resiliency solution that provides strong access controls, immutable copies of your data, and additional operationalized processes to mitigate attack risks and increase recovery capabilities.
AHEAD cyber vaults employ IRE cleanrooms to bring core applications online in a known good environment with isolated hardware where you can validate the integrity of your data and ultimately reduce your overall recovery time
What data do you protect, and how do you protect it? Our custom designs account for patching, management, monitoring, and access controls that are driven by your in-depth business impact analysis.
Why AHEAD for Cyber Recovery and Resilience?
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Comprehensive Recovery Strategy
From business impact analyses to Cyber Vault design backup, we design a vendor agnostic, comprehensive recovery strategy rooted in our understanding of your business impacts, and validate that strategy with your people and processes.
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IR and Tabletop Exercises
We put your new recovery strategy to the test. In tabletop simulations of cyberattack recovery, we execute a technical recovery test of a jointly selected workload to the recovery environment to validate all systems and processes are working as designed.
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Deep Industry Experience
AHEAD has worked with some of the largest organizations across industries such as healthcare, retail, manufacturing, aerospace, oil and gas, and financial institutions, providing our customers with a solid security posture and the confidence that they can recover in the unfortunate event of an attack.