Cyber Security and Resilience Services

Cyber Resilience Readiness Assessment

A Cyber Resilience Readiness Assessment provides a clear view of your organisation’s ability to prevent, withstand, respond to, and recover from a serious cyber incident.

Our independent cyber security risk assessment examines:

Cyber threat exposure
Governance and oversight
Leadership and decision-making readiness
Cyber security monitoring and incident response arrangements
Recovery and business continuity capabilities
Regulatory obligations and reporting requirements
Critical operational dependencies

Rather than a compliance-focused exercise, the assessment delivers a practical evaluation of resilience and identifies priority areas for improvement.

Ideal for boards, executive teams, CISOs, risk leaders, and organisations seeking an independent assessment of cyber resilience.

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Cyber Lifeboat & Minimum Viable Operations Planning

When a significant cyber incident occurs, organisations must know which business functions are critical to survival and how they will continue operating if key systems become unavailable.

GSA’s Cyber Lifeboat methodology helps organisations identify:

Minimum viable operations
Critical business activities
Essential systems and data
Key dependencies and third-party reliance
Recovery priorities and sequencing
Leadership decision points during disruption

The outcome is a practical operating model that supports continuity through severe cyber disruption, including offline workarounds, recovery procedures, backup validation, and clean recovery environments.

Our objective is simple: ensure your organisation can keep operating when normal systems and processes fail.

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Counterintelligence-Informed Cyber Threat Assessment

Understanding who may target your organisation is as important as understanding how they operate.

GSA’s Counterintelligence-Informed Cyber Threat Assessments provide insight into potential adversaries, their motivations, capabilities, and likely attack methods.

Assessments may include:

Threat actor profiling
Insider threat analysis
Supply chain and third-party risk
Hostile state activity
Sector-specific threat exposure
Strategic intelligence assessments

This service is particularly valuable for organisations operating in critical infrastructure, financial services, professional services, technology, government, defence-related environments, and family offices.

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Cyber Strategy

GSA Global undertakes assessments of cyber security and resilience that encompass cyber, technical, operational and organisational elements of overall business and institutional security and resilience.

GSA Global also undertakes focused reviews on emerging risks (e.g. insider compromise related risks), corporate transaction cyber due-diligence, reviews of governance-risk-compliance arrangements and of security operating models.

Cyber Investigation & Crisis Management

GSA Global offers full scope investigation services into complex and potentially contentious cyber incidents. GSA Global’s investigations combine technical investigation with criminal and nation-state attack human and physical penetration investigation capabilities. GSA Global is able to take on independent investigations that are likely to lead to criminal prosecutions and/or litigation with victim organisation technology partners.

GSA Global has particular expertise in dealing with situations where compromised insider activity is a possible contributory cause.

Assurance & Testing

GSA Global provides both point-in-time assessment and testing, and continuing managed vulnerability management and testing services to support clients with limited internal testing capability and/or capacity.

GSA Global offers human and physical testing services that assess the vulnerability to inadvertent and/or deliberate compromise by staff and/or intruders in organisations and their critical third parties. These services include tests of vulnerability to phishing and other spoofing methods being used by bad-actors.

Threat Intelligence

GSA Global threat intelligence provides insight and actionable information on tactical threats. This helps our clients understand their exposure to criminals and others as a result of information on them and their clients, suppliers and other stakeholders on the dark web.

GSA Global not only provides specific reviews but also provides managed threat intelligence services to meet the continuing needs of clients for insight and updates on evolving threats.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

What is cyber resilience?

Cyber resilience is an organisation’s ability to prepare for, withstand, respond to and recover from cyber incidents. It includes technology, people, governance, business continuity, crisis management, communications and recovery planning.

How is cyber resilience different from cyber security?

Cyber security focuses on protecting systems, data and networks from attack. Cyber resilience goes further by considering how the organisation continues operating, makes decisions, communicates and recovers when a serious cyber incident occurs.

What is a Cyber Resilience Readiness Assessment?

A Cyber Resilience Readiness Assessment reviews how prepared an organisation is for a serious cyber incident. It may consider threat exposure, governance, leadership readiness, recovery capability, critical dependencies, regulatory obligations and incident response arrangements.

What is the Cyber Lifeboat approach?

The Cyber Lifeboat approach identifies the minimum viable operations an organisation must be able to sustain or restore during a major cyber incident. It focuses on critical business activities, essential systems, data, recovery priorities and practical operating arrangements.

Why do boards need cyber crisis exercising?

Boards need cyber crisis exercising because they will be required to make important decisions quickly during a serious incident. Exercises help leaders practise escalation, stakeholder communication, regulatory notification, governance and decision making under pressure.

Does GSA replace a technical incident response provider?

No. GSA’s live incident advisory support is designed to sit alongside technical incident response. While technical teams focus on containment and recovery, GSA supports leadership decision making, governance, stakeholder management, regulatory communication and wider organisational risk.

Why does cyber resilience need a multi-disciplinary approach?

Cyber incidents can create operational, legal, reputational, regulatory, insider risk and physical security issues. A multi-disciplinary approach helps organisations respond to the full impact of an incident, not just the technical breach.

Who should use GSA’s Cyber Security and Resilience Services?

GSA’s Cyber Security and Resilience Services are suitable for boards, CEOs, executive teams, CISOs, legal teams, risk leaders, family offices, financial services firms, professional services organisations, critical suppliers, public sector bodies and organisations facing complex security or resilience risks.

Does GSA provide cyber security consultant support?

Yes. GSA provides cyber security consultant support for organisations that need help with cyber resilience, incident readiness, board advisory, crisis exercising, live incident support, threat assessment, regulatory reporting and complex cyber investigations.

Does GSA review cyber security monitoring arrangements?

Yes. As part of wider cyber resilience work, GSA can review whether cyber security monitoring arrangements support effective detection, escalation, incident response and leadership decision-making during a serious cyber incident.