When a cyber incident hits, the plan is everything
Almost half of SMEs that experience a major cyber incident are forced to close within eighteen months. The difference is rarely the attack; it is the response. Beyond Technology builds, tests and simulates incident response plans so your team knows exactly what to do from hour zero.
- Response plans built around your business priorities, not generic templates
- Plans tested and rehearsed, including board-level response simulations
- Independent advice: we sell no security products, so we never inflate the risk
Independent and vendor neutral. The advice is the product; nothing else is for sale.
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Tell us where your response planning stands. A senior consultant will come back to you to talk it through. No obligation.
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Security tools do not decide who does what at 2am
Most organisations have invested in defences. Far fewer can say, with confidence, exactly what happens in the first hours after those defences fail.
You have security tools, but no tested plan
Detection is only the start. Who declares the incident, who isolates systems, who calls the insurer, in what order do systems come back? Tools do not answer those questions.
We develop cyber incident response plans around your organisational priorities for resuming business as usual, then test them.
Your plan is a document nobody has rehearsed
A plan that has never been through a simulation is a document, not a capability. The first live run should not be the real incident.
Board and executive Cyber Response Simulations rehearse the decisions before they are real, and show where the plan actually holds.
You do not actually know your level of risk
Without an assessment grounded in business requirements, cyber spend is guesswork: too much in some places, dangerously little in others.
An independent Cyber Risk Assessment quantifies the risk you face and the capability gap between your plan and your reality.
Would your team pass the first 24 hours?
A board-level readiness checklist covering the decisions that decide the outcome: declaration authority, escalation paths, recovery priorities, communications and obligations. Work through it in calm conditions; every unticked box is a decision your team would otherwise make for the first time mid-incident.
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Cyber Incident Response: The First 24 Hours
- Who has the authority to declare an incident?
- Can the plan be reached when systems are down?
- Are recovery priorities agreed by the executive?
- Has the board been through a simulation?
- Plus escalation, evidence and communications checks
From assessment to rehearsal, one independent partner
Engagements are scoped to where you are: no plan yet, a plan that needs testing, or a resilience strategy that needs building.
Cyber incident response plan development
A plan built around your business and technical requirements, and the order in which your organisation needs to come back.
Cyber response plan assessment
An independent review of the plan you already have, against evolving cyber threats and your current capability.
Cyber response plan testing
Structured testing that shows whether the plan works under pressure, before an attacker runs the test for you.
Cyber response simulation
Board and executive rehearsals of a live incident: who decides what, and how the room behaves when it is real.
Cyber risk assessment
The level of risk your organisation actually faces, assessed independently against business requirements.
Cyber resilience strategy planning
The financial implications, service level expectations and remediation roadmap that turn response into resilience.
Assess, plan, rehearse
Assess
We establish the level of risk you face, your current technical capability gap, and how your existing plans stand up against evolving threats.
Plan
We develop or rebuild the response plan around your organisational priorities, the financial implications, and the service levels the business expects during recovery.
Rehearse and improve
Testing and board-level simulation prove the plan, and a remediation and mitigation roadmap keeps resilience improving after the engagement ends.
The outcomes our clients engage us for
Know your risk
The board can state the organisation’s cyber risk position without qualification, because it has been independently assessed against business requirements.
Respond with confidence
Roles, priorities and decisions are agreed and rehearsed before they are needed, so the response runs on the plan rather than on adrenaline.
Recover faster
Recovery follows the organisational priorities that matter for resuming business as usual, with expectations and trade-offs set in advance.
What executives say after working with us
After you identified the root cause of our difficulties we have never looked back
CFO, financial services industry
It’s the first time that I clearly understand how we engage our IT to change the status quo
CEO, large professional services firm
I was astounded to see how reprioritising our IT could deliver such a material improvement in business outcomes
MD, large field services organisation
We sell no security products, so we never inflate the risk
Much of the cyber industry profits from fear: the assessment is free, the findings are terrifying, and the fix is conveniently on the price list. Beyond Technology maintains absolute independence from every vendor and technology. Our only product is Actionable Advice: an accurate picture of your risk and a response capability sized to your organisation, in language that does not require a technical qualification to understand.
Frequently asked questions
We already have a security provider. Where do you fit?
We are independent of your providers, which is the point: we assess and test the response capability they are part of, as a third party with no stake in the answer and nothing to sell.
We already have a response plan. Is there anything to do?
Yes: assess and test it. Threats evolve and organisations change; a plan that has not been reviewed or rehearsed recently is an assumption, not a capability.
What does a board simulation involve?
A structured rehearsal of a realistic incident with your board and executive: the decisions, the pressure and the communication, so the first live run is not the real thing.
How long does it take, and what does it cost?
Scope drives both. A focused plan assessment is a short engagement; a full resilience strategy is larger. Scope and a clear proposal are agreed with you before we commence.
What is “Actionable Advice”?
Accessible, accurate advice in language you do not need a technical qualification to understand, with recommendations that fit your organisation’s context, affordability and achievability.
See the work behind the promise
Find out where your response plan really stands
Tell us what you have today: a plan, a provider, or a gap you already suspect. We will come back with where to start and a clear proposal. A short conversation with a consultant, not a sales call.
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