Cyber Resilience
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With our partnership, you can build the cyber resilience required to keep your people, processes, and systems secure, safe, and operational, no matter what.
Increase your security posture
Implement stronger, smarter controls and create a tougher path of resistance to deter even your most persistent adversaries.
Manage and control security events
Plan, prepare, and act decisively against threats, with complete and continuous visibility and control across your estate.
Develop a competitive advantage
Minimise the impact of incidents and continuously improve. Control costs, protect trust, and outperform your competitors.
What is cyber resilience?
Cyber resilience is an organisation’s ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse cyber events, utilising a mixture of clear governance, prepared people, proven processes, and actively managed security controls to do so.
Cyber resilience enables the systems and functions you rely on to remain operational, ensuring the continuation of transactions and value generation during and following a cyber incident.
50%
Increase in ‘nationally significant’ cyberattacks observed in the UK. (NCSC, 2025)
200%
Projected increase in the cost of cybercrime from 2022 to 2027 (to £17 trillion). (IMF, 2025)
39%
Of UK organisations are ‘At High Risk’ of attack, with 87% vulnerable overall. (Microsoft, 2024)
Why cyber resilience matters now
Worldwide, boardrooms are no longer asking whether cyber resilience is needed, but how to pursue, prioritise, and measure it. Cyber resilience matters because every organisation is at risk of cyber events that threaten to seriously harm their safety and continuity. Prevention and protection aren’t enough; leaders are being asked to ‘assume breach’. That means delivering outcomes that confirm your ability to respond, recover, and repeat when the unexpected and unwanted occur.
Volume of cyber attacks
Organisations are under relentless pressure. UK government data shows 43% of UK businesses and 30% of charities suffered breaches in 2025. As the cybercrime ecosystem grows with both technical and human enablers, attack volumes are set to rise.
Sophistication of cyber attacks
Cyber attacks are evolving in complexity, driven by automation, AI, and a growing pool of skilled threat actors. The NCSC reports sharply rising ‘nationally significant’ incidents, with perpetrators probing weaknesses daily and leveraging new techniques that outmatch traditional defences.
Cost of disruption
The financial toll of cyber disruption is substantial. Breaches cost businesses tens of thousands in direct losses, with catastrophic attacks causing economic damage in the billions. From the immediate cost of remediating an incident to lost custom, legal fees, and regulatory fines, attacks can hit your bottom line hard.
Laws and regulations
Regulation is tightening everywhere. The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and enhanced incident reporting frameworks emphasise preparedness, response, and recovery, not just prevention. Organisations that pursue cyber resilience now are better placed to meet evolving regulatory expectations and reduce compliance risk.
Infrastructure fragility
Modern infrastructure is fragile. The ubiquity of cloud platforms and third-party providers, and the persistence of legacy systems, opens up multiple points of failure. Supply chain attacks hit 58% of UK financial firms in 2024, showing how a single weakness can cause disruption, damage, and costly downtime across critical services.
Insurability and trust
Cyber insurance in the UK has become more costly and selective, with pay-outs reaching £197m in 2024. Insurers expect evidence of adequate controls, while stakeholders demand confidence that organisations are acknowledging risk. Without proper visibility, protection, and governance, your security posture is weak, eroding insurer trust.
Cyber resilience solutions
We’ve aligned our portfolio to the NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) to provide a principles- and outcome-led approach to cyber resilience that’s relevant, realistic, and scalable for organisations in all sectors. Our in-house expertise and strong ties to the best vendors in the industry means we can deliver the breadth of solutions you need, consolidated under one partner to remove complexity.Manage cyber risk
Evaluate and respond to your risk exposure by assessing your attack surface, identifying vulnerabilities, and understanding the threats you face. Prioritise remediation, make informed business decisions, and reduce your exposure.
Protect against cyber attacks
Our solutions reduce the risk of successful attacks and keep your organisation running securely. By hardening your systems and protecting critical data, we help you ensure operational continuity, maintain customer trust, and minimise the risk of emerging cyber threats.
Detect cyber security events
Early identification helps to limit impact. Get continuous visibility across your systems, detect cyber security events quickly, understand their impact, and take prompt action to close exposure points and reduce escalation.
Minimise the impact of incidents
When incidents occur, downtime and disruption are costly. We help you implement robust incident response planning, tested recovery processes, and recognised incident management frameworks. Together, these ensure rapid containment and recovery, protecting you from long-term harm.
The Ultima Effect
The long-standing vendor partnerships which help us deliver enterprise-grade cyber resilience solutions at scale are now further enhanced by our merger with Trustmarque. This partnership offers expanded capabilities, deeper expertise, and access to the UK’s top 10% most highly accredited penetration testers. We’re stronger together, accelerating outcomes and delivering greater value for our customers.
Frequently asked questions about cyber resilience
Cyber resilience means a business can anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber events while continuing to operate. It goes beyond traditional prevention to include detection, response, and recovery, ensuring continuity even when attacks succeed. It supports risk management, business continuity, and trust in a digital economy.
While cyber security focuses on reducing the likelihood of attacks through protection and defence, cyber resilience focuses on response, recovery, and adaptation. It’s a practice that acknowledges breaches may occur and prepares the organisation for disruption.
Cyber resilience is critical because breaches are frequent and sophisticated, and because the stakes are much higher in terms of cost and compliance. It helps businesses maintain core operations, reduce downtime, protect reputation, and comply with regulations. Resilient organisations manage risk proactively and recover faster, minimising financial loss and preserving customer trust.
The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is proposed legislation to reform and strengthen the country’s cyber resilience and security framework, updating the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 to better protect essential and digital services. It was introduced to Parliament on 12 November 2025 and received its second reading in January 2026 as it moves through legislative stages. The Bill is expected to reach Royal Assent and become law in 2026. Implementation will be phased-in thereafter, with some measures taking effect immediately and others through secondary legislation.
Cyber resilience can be measured by evaluating your organisation’s ability to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. Key metrics include rate of remediation, detection and response speed, system availability, and backup integrity. Frameworks such as the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) provide structured guidance for assessing resilience.
At Ultima, we use CAF to map your current capabilities against industry benchmarks, identifying which controls and processes are performing effectively and where gaps remain. We help define measurable metrics, track progress, and implement improvements to strengthen your overall cyber resilience, ensuring your business can withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents with confidence.
Without cyber resilience, businesses face higher risk of disruption, financial loss, regulatory penalties, and reputational damage. Breaches can halt operations, compromise data, and erode customer trust. Organisations lacking resilience struggle to recover quickly, leaving them exposed to ongoing threats and cascading impacts.
At Ultima, we make sure you start with a Cyber Maturity Assessment. It helps you understand your current cyber resilience, highlight strengths and gaps, and identify clear opportunities to strengthen your security and continuity.
Cyber resilience means a business can anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber events while continuing to operate. It goes beyond traditional prevention to include detection, response, and recovery, ensuring continuity even when attacks succeed. It supports risk management, business continuity, and trust in a digital economy.
While cyber security focuses on reducing the likelihood of attacks through protection and defence, cyber resilience focuses on response, recovery, and adaptation. It’s a practice that acknowledges breaches may occur and prepares the organisation for disruption.
Cyber resilience is critical because breaches are frequent and sophisticated, and because the stakes are much higher in terms of cost and compliance. It helps businesses maintain core operations, reduce downtime, protect reputation, and comply with regulations. Resilient organisations manage risk proactively and recover faster, minimising financial loss and preserving customer trust.
The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is proposed legislation to reform and strengthen the country’s cyber resilience and security framework, updating the Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018 to better protect essential and digital services. It was introduced to Parliament on 12 November 2025 and received its second reading in January 2026 as it moves through legislative stages. The Bill is expected to reach Royal Assent and become law in 2026. Implementation will be phased-in thereafter, with some measures taking effect immediately and others through secondary legislation.
Cyber resilience can be measured by evaluating your organisation’s ability to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. Key metrics include rate of remediation, detection and response speed, system availability, and backup integrity. Frameworks such as the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) provide structured guidance for assessing resilience.
At Ultima, we use CAF to map your current capabilities against industry benchmarks, identifying which controls and processes are performing effectively and where gaps remain. We help define measurable metrics, track progress, and implement improvements to strengthen your overall cyber resilience, ensuring your business can withstand, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents with confidence.
Without cyber resilience, businesses face higher risk of disruption, financial loss, regulatory penalties, and reputational damage. Breaches can halt operations, compromise data, and erode customer trust. Organisations lacking resilience struggle to recover quickly, leaving them exposed to ongoing threats and cascading impacts.
At Ultima, we make sure you start with a Cyber Maturity Assessment. It helps you understand your current cyber resilience, highlight strengths and gaps, and identify clear opportunities to strengthen your security and continuity.
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