Cyber Resilience
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Explore SolutionsFearlessly face cyber attacks and security events with Ultima by your side. Our cyber resilience solutions prepare you for the inevitable so you can ensure continuity when you’re under siege.
Build the cyber resilience needed to keep your organisation operational, and your critical systems, infrastructure, and data safe.
Prepare for attacks
Strengthen your strategic foundation with risk-led governance, defined priorities, and tested plans that prepare your organisation for disruption.
Limit adverse impact
Reduce disruption and harm inflicted by attacks by testing your readiness, hardening your controls, and coordinating your response.
Recover stronger
Restore operations fast, learn from events, and continuously improve, developing a competitive advantage through stress-tested performance.
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)
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.
Why cyber resilience matters now
Cyber resilience matters because every organisation is at risk of cyber attacks and security events that threaten to seriously harm their safety and continuity. Security is no longer enough. Leaders are being asked to ‘assume breach’ and expect the worst. That means preparing, testing, and maintaining the functions needed to withstand pressure and maintain optimal performance during and following sustained incidents. When you’re pushed to your limit, cyber resilience keeps you going.
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 through both technological and human advancement, attack volumes are expected to increase.
Sophistication of cyber attacks
Cyber attacks are evolving in complexity, driven by automation, AI, skills investment, and nation-state resourcing. The NCSC reports sharply rising ‘nationally significant’ incidents, with perpetrators leveraging techniques that outmatch even modern defences.
Cost of disruption
Breaches can cost organisations tens of thousands in direct losses, with catastrophic attacks causing damage in the billions. From the immediate cost of remediating an incident to lost business, legal fees, and regulatory fines, attacks have the potential to destroy value in a matter of hours.
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, creates numerous 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 payouts reaching £197m in 2024. Insurers expect evidence of adequate controls, while stakeholders demand confidence that organisations are acknowledging risk. Without readiness you are weak, which can lower trust, impact assurance, and block investment.
The Ultima Effect
We’re uniquely positioned to deliver cyber resilience at scale. Our partnerships with leading security vendors give you access to cutting-edge technologies designed for to modern cyber risk. Our in-house consultancy, including a dedicated GRC practice and some of the UK’s most highly accredited penetration testers, helps provide the governance, compliance, and readiness needed to face adverse security events. And with the scale and technology expertise to support complex environments, we’re able to help you build cyber resilience that works in practice, not just on paper.
Our cyber resilience solutions
Our unified security offering helps organisations build cyber resilience from the inside out. With our in-house expertise and strong ties to the best vendors in the industry, we can provide everything you need – from initial assessment to continuous management – to ensure continuity when the worst happens. We’ve aligned our solution portfolio and approach to industry leading frameworks ensuring we provide principled, compliance-aware, and outcome-led cyber resilience.Manage cyber risk
Apply the structures, policies, and processes needed to identify, assess and strategically manage cyber risk across your organisation. Our solutions span Governance, Risk Assessments, and Supply Chain Risk.
Protect against cyber attacks
Reduce the risk and impact of breaches to keep your organisation running securely. We help you lower disruption, maintain operational continuity, and build customer trust by applying measures to protect your critical systems, infrastructure, and data from attack.
Detect cyber security events
Limit impact the impact of live attacks with industry-leading threat detection. Our solutions provide continuous visibility across your systems, identifying cyber security events fast and enabling swift action to terminate attacks 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.
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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