Sheltered Harbor

Thank you for your valued collaboration and contribution in our collective endeavor to make the finance sector ever more resilient. We look forward to working with everyone again in the New Year and to expanding our reach across sectors to make 2025 the most successful year ever. 

The UK’s  Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out a report on its insights, observations and key lessons on how firms responded to the CrowdStrike outage and their preparedness to respond to future incidents.   They have highlighted that with the increasing dependence on unregulated third parties to deliver important business services, it is vital that organizations become operationally resilient to comply with FCA regulations.   They note that organizations must make sure they can recover important business services quickly in severe but plausible scenarios to help minimise the impact on consumers and markets.   This is exactly what Sheltered Harbor helps organizations do and is recognized by regulators globally as the gold standard for robust resilience and rapid business recovery.    Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/e2VVhkVn   Then visit https://lnkd.in/gSSngzzB to join Sheltered Harbor and start your journey toward cyber resilience certification today.   #shelteredharbor  #cyberattack  #cyberdefense #cyberresilience  #cybersecurity #cyberrisk #dataprotection #disasterrecovery  #resilience #businesscontinuity  #financialservices  #bankingindustry #getprepared #America #innovation #crowdstrike

“Sheltered Harbor is a fundamental part of a resilience strategy, ensuring your business can recover and restore critical operations when all else fails. Every financial institution should be Sheltered Harbor Certified as it signals to consumers and regulators that your business prioritizes data security and resiliency in preparation for the unthinkable.” -    Christopher F. Feeney NACD.DC  Bank Policy Institute Executive Vice President and President of BITS. Visit https://lnkd.in/gSSngzzB to join Sheltered Harbor and start your journey toward cyber resilience certification today. ... #shelteredharbor  #cyberattack  #cyberdefense #cyberresilience  #cybersecurity  #cyberrisk #dataprotection #disasterrecovery  #resilience   #businesscontinuity  #financialservices  #bankingindustry #getprepared #America #innovation

Is your organization resilient enough to survive a zero-day attack? Or could it all blow up in your face? How do you know? Find out now by downloading Sheltered Harbor’s Maturity Model, the only self-assessment tool designed by the financial industry specifically for the industry, that assesses your organization’s readiness to survive a severe operational outage. Sheltered Harbor, is a not-for-profit, standards setting and certification organization responsible for helping every participating U.S. financial organization prepare for and survive a crisis, like a devastating cyber-attack or severe outage. This assessment tool will help you identify gaps and enable you to develop your plan for robust resilience and rapid business recovery. Click here to request model : https://lnkd.in/ehRk8ZfH ..... #shelteredharbor #cyberattack #cyberdefense #cyberresilience #cybersecurity #cyberrisk #dataprotection #disasterrecovery #resilience #businesscontinuity #financialservices #bankingindustry #getprepared #America #innovation #maturitymodel

Accenture and Dell Technologies compiled a report last year on the super myths about cyber resilience that every organization should review and see whether they have bought into these misleading ideas and solutions.   In the wave of increased cyber attacks and severe outages, the report is even more relevant today. Have you bought into any of these?   1. My organisation is not a target   2. We are fully resilient because our backup data is immutable   3. If attacked, we will fall back on our manual processes to run the business   4. My data is in the cloud – so it is secure by design, and is my cloud provider’s problem   5. We have a disaster recovery plan which will enable us to recover from a ransomware attack   Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/e_BkS_EZ   If you, or those with the power in the organization have bought into these myths and believe your organization is resilient enough, it is imperative you get better prepared and become as resilient as possible.   Sheltered Harbor is recognized by regulators globally as the gold standard for robust resilience and rapid business recovery. Visit https://lnkd.in/gSSngzzB to join Sheltered Harbor and start your journey toward cyber resilience certification today.  ..... #shelteredharbor  #cyberattack  #cyberdefense #cyberresilience  #cybersecurity #cyberrisk #dataprotection #disasterrecovery  #resilience #businesscontinuity  #financialservices  #bankingindustry #getprepared #America #innovation  

Do you have a spare 75 million dollars?   Ransomware attacks have increased in frequency and sophistication in 2024 and according to Rapid7’s Ransomware Radar Report 2024, victims are estimated to have paid over $460 million in ransoms during the first half of the year, with a record payment of $75 million made by a single victim.   That’s a lot of unnecessary money to have to find.That’s why you MUST protect your critical data and make your organization more resilient today.   Sheltered Harbor is recognized by regulators globally as the gold standard for robust resilience and rapid business recovery. Visit https://lnkd.in/gSSngzzB to join Sheltered Harbor and start your journey toward cyber resilience certification today.   #shelteredharbor  #cyberattack  #cyberdefense #cyberresilience  #cybersecurity #cyberrisk #dataprotection #disasterrecovery  #resilience #businesscontinuity  #financialservices  #bankingindustry #getprepared #America #innovation

There’s a real value to looking in the mirror, to determine whether your organization really is prepared to survive a devastating cyber outage.     The Sheltered Harbor Maturity Model for Recovery from a Severe Outage is a free self- assessment tool that’s now available to help you do that.   Sheltered Harbor’s CEO, Carlos Recalde, explains the importance of using the Maturity Model in his latest blog post. Click here to read: https://lnkd.in/ez8UnBcc Then get the Maturity Model to help you identify gaps and enable you to develop your plan for robust resilience and rapid business recovery. Click here to download: https://lnkd.in/ehRk8ZfH And visit https://lnkd.in/gSSngzzB to join Sheltered Harbor and start your journey toward cyber resilience certification today.

“Moving quickly after a seismic cyber event is paramount to preserving the public’s confidence in the banking system, and Sheltered Harbor is the lifeline for resiliency. To maintain public confidence, community banks should make Sheltered Harbor certification a priority.” -  Lance Noggle, Senior Vice President, Operations and Senior Regulatory Counsel at ICBA Independent Banker Visit https://lnkd.in/gSSngzzB to join Sheltered Harbor and start your journey toward cyber resilience certification today. #shelteredharbor  #cyberattack  #cyberdefense #cyberresilience  #cybersecurity  #cyberrisk #dataprotection #disasterrecovery  #resilience   #businesscontinuity  #financialservices  #bankingindustry #getprepared #America #innovation

Oh my, the marketing people just made our newest tool talk! Forget AI, marketing makes anything possible 😁 The Sheltered Harbor community, which consists of a broad mix of banks, brokers, credit unions, asset managers, clearing houses, insurers, service providers, and so many more organizations, has been preparing their organizations to survive a severe outage for several years now. We have learned that becoming resilient is a journey, and we have learned about a good set of indicators regarding where each organization is in that journey. As a result we released the Sheltered Harbor Maturity Model for Recovery From a Severe Outage. While the model doesn't talk, it certainly provides a great basis for an honest self-assessment of where your organization is on that journey. The tool is freely available to organizations of any type. Do with your assessment what you like. If you're in financial services and want to know how to make quicker (and cheaper) progress to resilience, please consider joining #ShelteredHarbor. #DataVaulting #Resilience #Certification

A note from our CEO Carlos Recalde : It was an honor to present with three of our Alliance Partners at the Elastio hosted session on surviving a severe outage. Together we are working to get more of the market to realize that responding to a cyber attack requires more than just our DR/BC plans. Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS, Elastio, and Veritas Technologies LLC understand that TIME is of the essence for recovery in that scenario. If you couldn't make it to the live session, you can still see a recording that is hosted by Elastio. Thanks to all that helped make this webinar happen!