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to prepare, anticipate, withstand, and recover from attacks that could impact millions or cause widespread
panic.

Resilience is Imperative in Healthcare

A cyber resilient healthcare organization today must anticipate and prepare for the crippling effects of
ransomware. They must be prepared to withstand attacks, which have become common, and recover
quickly or risk patient lives. The cyber resilient healthcare organization is one that drills the organization
for a cyber attack with the same frequency and intensity as it would conduct fire drills for a building.
Hospitals and other care providers are naturally focused on patient care. Healthcare security teams must
consider preventative medicine in addition to aftercare – they must be prepared to diagnose, triage, and
improve the future health of their programs.

Resilience is Imperative in Finance

Financial institutions may have led the charge on the protection of data, yet a cyber resilient financial
services security team no longer focuses primarily on customer data. Those controls and PII protections
are only part of their resilience story. Teams must anticipate threats to intellectual property. They must
withstand attacks that impact critical business processes, not only those that steal funds or credentials.
Financial services teams must recover from cyberattacks or breaches quickly to maintain customer trust.

Why Deepwatch Focuses on Cyber Resilience

Unfortunately, many organizations have neither the resources, the in-house skills, nor the time to build
cyber resilient programs. Instead, they create security programs that rely too heavily on preventing
attacks, with too little focus on responding to them. They focus on the volume of alerts instead of their
underlying meaning. They do what they can with limited budgets, and hope they never become a
comeback story.

Our approach to cyber resilience is founded on the belief that security is a collection of outcomes, not
merely tools or solution sets. And it is rooted in the necessity of continuous improvement. The cyber
resilient enterprise understands both the internal and external risks they face and can demonstrate
consistent visibility into those risks across their entire attack surface. Organizations no longer simply
defend themselves, they are continuously fortifying positions and adapting to new tactics and techniques.
The cyber resilient enterprise must:

• Anticipate: understand their environment and how it maps to their unique RISK profile.
• Withstand & Recover: effectively detect threats then execute the right RESPONSE at the right
time.
• Adapt: establish responses tied to policies, update user controls, and IMPROVE security posture
over time.

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