Cyber Risk & Resilience
Effective cyber risk management goes beyond technology. Organisations that treat cyber security as a purely technical discipline — firewalls, patches, monitoring tools — discover the limitation when an incident occurs and the response depends on governance, communication, and decision-making under pressure. The technology may detect the breach. It does not determine whether the organisation can respond coherently.
London Strategy Centre's cyber risk and resilience services help organisations understand their exposure to cyber threats, strengthen the governance structures that sustain security, and build the operational capability to respond to and recover from incidents.
The gap between detection and response is organisational, not technical
Most organisations invest significantly in detection and prevention. Fewer invest in the governance, planning, and rehearsal required to respond effectively when those controls fail. The result is a predictable pattern: the security operations centre identifies an anomaly, but the escalation path is unclear. The incident response plan exists in a document, but it has never been tested under realistic conditions. Business continuity arrangements address IT recovery but not operational decision-making during disruption.
This gap is not a technology failure. It is a governance and capability failure - and it is where the greatest organisational risk sits.
Building resilience across six dimensions
LSC's cyber risk and resilience services address the full spectrum from risk identification through to recovery capability.
Cyber Security Health Checks
Assess the organisation’s overall security posture against recognised frameworks. The output is a clear, prioritised view of strengths, weaknesses, and areas requiring immediate attention – designed for leadership teams, not solely for technical audiences.
Security Risk Assessments
Identify vulnerabilities, evaluate threat likelihood and impact, and prioritise risks in a format that supports informed decision-making. Assessments are structured to produce actionable outputs – not lengthy reports that require further interpretation.
Incident Response Planning with Tabletop Exercises (TTX)
Prepares teams for real-world cyber incidents through structured scenario-based exercises. Plans are developed, tested, and refined so that when an incident occurs, roles, escalation paths, and communication protocols are already understood. Tabletop exercises bring realism to preparation without operational disruption.
Business Continuity Planning
Ensures the organisation can maintain critical operations during cyber disruptions. Plans address operational dependencies, communication requirements, and manual workaround procedures – not just IT system recovery.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Provides structured processes for restoring systems, data, and services after a significant cyber incident. Recovery plans are aligned with business priorities so that the most critical functions are restored first.
Security Policy Development
Establishes clear governance and security practices across the organisation. Policies are written to be implementable – concise, aligned with regulatory requirements, and designed for the people who must follow them.
Resilience compounds when governance and practice connect
Individual services deliver immediate value. Their combined effect is greater. A risk assessment that identifies governance weaknesses informs policy development. Policies that define incident response roles make table top exercises more realistic. Exercises that expose gaps in business continuity planning strengthen recovery capability. Each engagement reinforces the others, creating a compounding improvement in the organisation's ability to withstand and recover from cyber incidents.
Who this is for
These services are designed for organisations where cyber resilience is a board-level priority, where regulatory or contractual obligations require demonstrable risk management, where existing incident response capabilities have not been tested under realistic conditions, and where leadership teams need clear, actionable insight into their cyber risk exposure.
Frequently Asked Questions
LSC's risk assessments identify organisational exposure across people, process, and technology. The output is a prioritised risk register with practical remediation guidance — not a generic checklist.
LSC facilitates tabletop exercises and simulation scenarios that test the plan against realistic cyber incident scenarios, identifying gaps before a real incident does.
Yes. LSC provides post-incident support including root cause analysis, remediation guidance, and structured improvements to prevent recurrence.