Your Company Needs a Plan for the First 72 Hours After a Cyberattack

Cyberattacks now move too quickly for companies to assume they can simply restore every system and resume normal operations. The organizations that recover fastest prepare to run the business

Most companies operate with one of two assumptions about cyber disruption: that strong enough defenses will prevent it, or that a well-written business continuity plan will manage it when it happens. Our research, drawn from a global survey of 1,000 senior executives across 20 industries in 13 countries, suggests both assumptions are dangerously wrong.