Strengthening Operational Resilience Through Effective Prioritization and Recovery Strategies

1. Executive summary

Financial institutions face an operational resilience crisis. Escalating cyber threats, tightening regulatory scrutiny, and rising customer expectations demand a fundamental shift in how institutions prioritize and protect their critical systems. The most common failure is overclassifying applications as "P1," the highest level of urgency that represents mission-critical elements of the organization. This dilutes focus, inflates costs and undermines crisis response when it matters most.

The following content provides:

A framework and methodology for prioritizing applications.
Best practice recovery strategies for cyber events in the financial sector, including extreme scenarios such as ransomware.
Insights into how cyber threats are integral to operational resilience, drawing upon global and Canadian regulatory guidance.

These approaches are informed by leading regulatory and industry guidelines, including:

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook on Business Continuity Planning (2019).
NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-34 (Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems, 2019).
Bank of England's Policy Statement on Operational Resilience (PS6/21, 2021).
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) "Principles for Operational Resilience" (2021).
Canadian Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) Guideline B-13 (Technology and Cyber Risk Management, 2022).
Other OSFI guidelines focusing on technology, cyber and operational resilience.

2. Introduction

Financial organizations worldwide operate under increasingly complex conditions, with stringent regulations, rapid technological advances and persistent cyber threats shaping the landscape. In Canada, federally regulated financial institutions are guided by OSFI, whose Guideline B-13 sets expectations for managing technology and cyber risk to support operational resilience.

A common pain point for many institutions is assigning criticality levels to their IT applications, often resulting in an unwieldy number of P1 systems. Such a broad categorization can dilute focus, escalate operational costs and hinder incident response effectiveness.

This paper explores:

Frameworks for prioritizing critical assets and applications based on business impact.
Best practices and strategies for recovery that address both traditional operational disruptions and complex cyber incidents.
The role of cyber preparedness in bolstering operational resilience and aligning with Canadian and international regulatory expectations.

By applying a structured, data-driven, and risk-based approach, financial institutions can reduce the number of P1 applications to a manageable set, allocate resources more effectively and ensure that the most critical functions remain resilient under adverse conditions.

3. The Importance of Operational Resilience

3.1 Regulatory drivers

Regulatory bodies worldwide are ramping up operational resilience to mitigate systemic risk and protect consumers:

United States: The Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) emphasize robust business continuity management (BCM) and operational risk frameworks (FFIEC, 2019).
United Kingdom: The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have introduced regulations focused on defining "Important Business Services," setting impact tolerances, and ensuring resilience (Policy Statement PS6/21, 2021).
International: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) released its Principles for Operational Resilience (March 2021), stressing integrated risk management.

Canadian perspective: OSFI guidance

In Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) oversees federally regulated financial institutions; OSFI Guideline B-13 (Technology and Cyber Risk Management, 2022) emphasizes an integrated approach to technology and cyber risk, outlining expectations around governance, risk identification, mitigation, and resiliency. Other OSFI Guidelines provide direction on business continuity, third-party risk management (e.g., B-10 on outsourcing), and overarching operational resilience frameworks.

These Canadian-specific guidelines echo the global call for strong operational resilience. They focus on ensuring that critical operations can withstand disruptions, whether technology-related, driven by third-party failures or caused by cyber attacks.

3.2 Business imperative

Beyond compliance, operational resilience also offers strategic and competitive advantages:

Revenue preservation and cost avoidance: Rapid recovery from disruptions curtails revenue losses and repair costs, while sustained system availability fosters customer loyalty.
Reputational benefit: Financial institutions with a track record of resilience enhance customer confidence and cultivate trust in the marketplace.
Competitive differentiation: Best-in-class resilience practices can be a market differentiator, signaling reliability to clients, partners and investors.

Embedding operational resilience within strategic agendas aligns regulatory compliance with sustained competitive performance. It also ensures financial institutions can support customers through crises, a central theme in the financial sector, as evidenced by OSFI's and other regulators' emphasis on the continuity of critical services.

3.3 Imperative for change

There is often a fundamental disconnect between how financial institutions structure their technology operations and what the current threat landscape demands. Organizations succeeding in this environment share common characteristics; they organize around customer outcomes rather than technical silos, maintain adaptive capacity planning that reserves 25-30 percent for incident response, and implement unified governance that treats cyber and operational resilience as inseparable disciplines.

The following challenges stem from fundamental misalignments in how technological functions are structured, incentivized and integrated within the broader financial enterprise:

Siloed organizational structures create competing priorities and discourage collaboration across technology domains, which is particularly problematic in banks where product lines historically operate independently.
Disconnected business and technology priorities lead to poor investment decisions, low-value outcomes and missed strategic opportunities.
Excessive operational controls, while necessary for regulatory compliance, often create innovation-stifling environments.
Legacy technology debt compounds over time, consuming increasing proportions of the technology budget.
Talent acquisition and retention challenges plague organizations perceived as bureaucratic or technically stagnant.

Financial institutions that address these fundamental misalignments gain decisive advantages: faster time-to-market, improved operational efficiency, and enhanced resilience against both cyber threats and operational disruptions.

4. Rationalizing the P1 portfolio

An overly large set of applications classified as P1 often indicates an ad-hoc approach to criticality. A strategic, evidence-based classification ensures that only systems with the highest potential impact on business continuity and regulatory compliance are elevated to top priority. According to the FFIEC Business Continuity Management booklet (2019), institutions should maintain an inventory of critical applications informed by a rigorous business impact analysis (BIA) and risk assessment. OSFI also expects institutions to clearly understand critical processes and supporting assets (B-13, 2022).

4.1 Business impact analysis (BIA)

A BIA identifies and evaluates the potential impacts of disruptions on business operations. Best practices for conducting a BIA include:

Identify critical processes and dependencies: Map each business process to the underlying applications and infrastructure.
Determine recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs): Assess each application's acceptable downtime (RTO) and data-loss thresholds (RPO).
Quantify financial and reputational impact: Consider tangible (e.g., revenue losses, regulatory fines) and intangible (e.g., reputational harm, customer churn) impacts.
Incorporate compliance requirements: Align with relevant regulations (e.g., GDPR for data protection, OSFI B-10 for third-party due diligence) and internal policy standards.

Reference: NIST SP 800-34 (2019) outlines a detailed methodology for contingency planning and BIA processes.

4.2 Criticality and prioritization framework

Following a thorough BIA, organizations can assign priority levels (P1, P2, P3, etc.) that reflect actual business risk and operational dependencies:

Define clear criteria for P1. It is typically reserved for applications that support life/safety, ensure regulatory compliance (e.g., payment systems, core banking platforms), or have near-zero tolerance for downtime.
Enable flexible but controlled governance: Use formal governance boards or committees (including business, IT and risk stakeholders) to validate application priority decisions.
Review and update periodically: Reassess priorities in response to business or regulatory changes, mergers, system upgrades or new threat intelligence (including OSFI's evolving guidelines).

Reference: BCBS's "Principles for Operational Resilience" (2021) and OSFI B-13 (2022) both advise continuous risk evaluation in dynamic environments.

4.3 Streamlining the P1 portfolio

A typical goal is to reduce the number of P1 applications to a manageable subset, often aiming for 5 to 10 percent of the total application portfolio. By doing so, institutions can:

Focus incident response: Ensure crisis management teams can devote sufficient resources to the highest-impact disruptions.
Optimize recovery investments: Prioritize funding for robust redundancy, failover and cyber-defense mechanisms where needed.
Enhance communication: Make it easier for stakeholders to understand and align on business-critical operations, ensuring swifter, more effective decision-making under stress.

4.4 Future-proof financial technology

Most financial institutions have too many P1 applications — often 30 to 50 percent of their entire portfolio. This isn't just inefficient; it's dangerous. When everything is critical, nothing is critical. During a crisis, overwhelmed teams struggle to prioritize, resources get diluted, and recovery times extend beyond acceptable limits.

The solution requires surgical precision: a rigorous business impact analysis (BIA) that identifies the true critical few — typically 5 to10 percent of applications — that genuinely cannot tolerate disruption.

Based on our work with leading financial institutions, we have identified five core principles that should guide any technology organizational redesign effort:

Organize around customer and business outcomes, not technical domains.
Establish a common technology delivery platform.
Create an engineering discipline through platform teams.
Implement adaptive capacity planning and portfolio management.

Progressive financial organizations have implemented more fluid planning processes, allowing continuous reprioritization based on changing business needs. These processes typically include:

Quarterly business review and reallocation cycles.
Reserved capacity for incident response (25 to 30 percent).
Clear, consistent prioritization frameworks that balance innovation with regulatory compliance.
Transparent visibility into resource allocation across the portfolio.

The Strategic Technology Office serves as the primary interface between business units and technology teams. It is responsible for:

Aligning technology strategy with BIA.
Managing demand and prioritizing work based on business value and risk.
Providing financial transparency and accountability.
Maintaining technology standards, patch levels and policies.
Managing centralized vendor relationships.
Overseeing enterprise architecture and technology roadmaps.

5. Best practice recovery strategies in the financial sector

Effective recovery strategies must address traditional disruptions (e.g., data center outages, natural disasters) and complex cyber threats (e.g., ransomware, supply-chain attacks, zero-day exploits). Canadian institutions regulated by OSFI should integrate these strategies into broader technology and cyber risk management initiatives as outlined in OSFI Guideline B-13.

5.1 Data center redundancy and failover

Hot-Hot / Active-Active data center configurations enable continuous processing and minimal downtime. Although expensive, they are often essential for Tier 1 systems that cannot tolerate outages (e.g., real-time payment platforms).

Recommendation: Implement automated failover for critical applications, ensuring that infrastructure, network paths and access controls are synchronized across data centers.

5.2 Cloud-based disaster recovery (DR)

Shifting to a cloud-based DR model can reduce capital expenditure and expedite recovery. Cloud providers offer geographically dispersed data centers with automated scaling and robust security controls.

Recommendation: Adhere to shared responsibility models. At the same time, cloud providers secure the underlying infrastructure; organizations must protect workloads and maintain robust oversight of vendor risk (ISO 27001 offers a helpful framework for vendor risk assessment). OSFI's B-10 on third-party risk management also underscores due diligence and oversight for critical outsourcing arrangements.

5.3 Cyber incident response and playbooks

Given the rise in sophisticated cyber threats (ransomware, distributed denial-of-service attacks), well-documented cyber incident response playbooks are a regulatory and operational necessity.

Incident Response Plan

Engage cybersecurity and IT teams immediately. CR plans should have a hard copy, as digital may not be accessible.
Isolate affected systems from the network to prevent spread. Have a clean room ready.
Identify encrypted or exfiltrated data.

Data Restoration Process

Verify backup integrity and confirm that backups are intact and free from malware.
Restore from clean snapshots and prioritize immutable or air-gapped backups for recovery.
Use staged recovery. Restore in a clean room environment first to test integrity.
Validate and monitor by scanning for malware before reintegrating into production. Application teams will need to validate their ability to connect and perform tasks.

Post-recovery hardening

Patch vulnerabilities. Update software, OS and security tools.
Reinforce access controls. Rotate credentials and review permissions.
Conduct forensic analysis. Understand attack vectors and close security gaps.
Recommendation: Maintain role-based and scenario-specific procedures to detect, contain, eradicate and recover from cyber incidents (see NIST SP 800-61, Computer Security Incident Handling Guide). Ensure robust logging, real-time monitoring and forensics capabilities are in place. OSFI B-13 (2022) calls for incident management processes integrated with broader enterprise risk management.

5.5 Ransomware and cyber recovery strategy

Ransomware poses a significant operational risk as it can quickly encrypt systems and backups, rendering them inaccessible. In extreme scenarios, organizations must plan for the possibility that all production, DR and primary backups are offline or compromised.

Traditional disaster recovery assumes your backup systems remain accessible. Ransomware attacks shatter this assumption. Modern ransomware specifically targets backup infrastructure, creating scenarios where production systems, disaster recovery sites and primary backups are simultaneously compromised. Financial institutions must prepare for this reality with:

1. Immutable backups and offline storage

Store critical backups in a manner that cannot be altered or deleted once written (often referred to as "immutable backups").
Maintain an air-gapped copy of essential data physically or logically isolated from network access.

2. Alternative processing sites

If ransomware locks production and DR sites simultaneously, institutions should maintain alternative clean recovery environments or secure test facilities that can quickly be used for critical processing.
Prioritize the provisioning of essential business services to restore partial operations until full recovery is possible.

3. Manual or offline workarounds

Identify manual procedures or backup business processes for critical services (e.g., manually authorizing certain transactions) to ensure partial continuity when systems remain unavailable.
Document these processes in a "Black Start" or "No Tech" scenario plan.

4. Incident response coordination

Coordinate across IT, security, legal and communications teams to decide if (and when) to involve law enforcement or third-party decryption services.
Conduct post-incident analysis to gather threat intelligence, refine vulnerability management and strengthen defenses against reinfection.

Note: A robust cyber recovery strategy acknowledges that standard DR solutions alone may not suffice during severe attacks. This challenges the institution to plan for continuing essential functions even under extreme circumstances, reflecting OSFI's emphasis on ensuring key business services can remain operational.

5.6 Regular testing and validation

Both regulatory guidance (FFIEC, BCBS, OSFI) and best-practice frameworks (NIST, ISO 22301) stress the importance of routine DR testing, tabletop exercises and crisis simulations:

Recommendation: Conduct annual or semi-annual crisis simulations involving cross-functional stakeholders (IT, business, risk, legal, communications). Validate failover processes, communication flows and escalation protocols under realistic, high-pressure scenarios, including "worst-case" ransomware events where standard backup/recovery approaches may be completely compromised.

6. Implementation roadmap for financial institutions

Redesigning a technology organization is a significant undertaking that typically takes 18-24 months to fully implement in a large financial institution. Based on our experience, we recommend the following phased approach:

Phase 1: Assessment and vision (2-3 months)

Conduct a thorough assessment of current capabilities, pain points and regulatory constraints.
Define future-state vision and organizational principles.
Identify key metrics for success, including risk and compliance metrics.
Map current regulatory obligations to future-state capabilities.
Secure executive sponsorship and alignment, including key risk and control functions.

Phase 2: Design and pilot (3-4 months)

Define detailed roles, responsibilities and interfaces.
Select pilot areas for initial implementation, typically choosing areas with lower regulatory impact first.
Develop talent strategy and training plans.
Create detailed implementation plans, including risk management approaches.
Engage with regulators as appropriate to address any concerns.

Phase 3: Implementation (12-18 months)

Implement organizational changes in waves, starting with less critical systems.
Provide coaching and training for leaders and teams.
Establish new governance processes, including risk-based control frameworks.
Run tabletop testing annually, or more frequently.
Monitor and refine based on feedback.
Maintain communication with regulators throughout the process.

Phase 4: Optimization (ongoing)

Continuously measure performance against metrics.
Make incremental adjustments based on feedback.
Scale successful practices across the organization.
Document the process and validate.
Evolve the model as business needs and regulatory requirements change.

Banks can ensure that reorganization efforts gain real traction by proceeding through these phases thoughtfully and maintaining alignment with risk and regulatory requirements. Yet adopting new structures and processes is only the starting point; achieving a truly future-proof technology organization also demands a balanced emphasis on cultural change, process maturity and strategic oversight. In the following section, we examine how these elements come together to create a lasting competitive edge in the evolving financial landscape.

7. Integration of cyber with operational resilience

Cybersecurity is integral to operational resilience because cyber incidents can directly disrupt critical business services. For instance, a successful ransomware attack could paralyze payment systems, breach customer data and trigger regulatory sanctions. The Financial Stability Board (FSB) Cyber Lexicon (2018) notes that cyber resilience is a core element of safeguarding financial stability. Canadian regulators similarly stress technology and cyber risk as a core dimension of overall operational resilience.

7.1 Unified governance

Modern operational resilience strategies merge enterprise risk management, BCM and cybersecurity into a unified governance framework. Key tenets include:

Holistic risk assessments: Evaluate cyber threats alongside operational risks (e.g., physical security, third-party dependencies). OSFI B-13 highlights the importance of integrated technology and cyber risk assessments.
FINRA multidisciplinary steering committees: These committees combine the CIO, CISO, business and legal perspectives to align strategies and ensure consistent policy enforcement.
Synergy in monitoring and reporting: Consolidate key risk indicators (KRIs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) into integrated dashboards for leadership review.

7.2 Regulatory expectations

Regulators, including OSFI, expect financial institutions to "own" their operational resilience outcomes even when relying on third-party providers or cloud vendors. An isolated approach to cyber or BCM no longer suffices; each institution must demonstrate a robust, end-to-end strategy addressing prevention, detection, response and recovery for all operational risk dimensions.

United States regulatory bodies
- SEC Rule 17a-4(f): This rule requires broker-dealers to retain electronic records in a manner that prevents alteration or deletion, commonly achieved through Write Once, Read Many (WORM) Data Protection. The rule specifies that electronic records must be preserved exclusively in a non-rewriteable, non-erasable format to protect their integrity.
- FINRA Rule 4511: Aligned with SEC Rule 17a-4, FINRA Rule 4511 mandates that member firms preserve required records in conformity with applicable SEC regulations, ensuring that records are stored in a format that prevents modification or destruction. This can be achieved with immutable and air-gapped backups.
Canada
- Principle 7 – Safeguards: Organizations must protect personal information with security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information. This includes implementing physical, organizational and technological measures to protect data.
EU European Union
- GDPR: Requires organizations to implement measures such as data protection by design and, by default, appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO). It forces organizations to improve cybersecurity and data management. Failure to comply, depending on severity, could lead to fines as high as 20 million euros.
- NIS2 Directive (Network and Information Systems Directive 2) is the European Union's updated cybersecurity law aimed at strengthening the resilience of critical infrastructure and essential services against cyber threats. It expands upon the original NIS Directive (2016) and introduces stricter security requirements, more vigorous enforcement and broader sector coverage.

7.3 Cultural transformation

Achieving meaningful operational resilience requires an organizational culture that prioritizes risk awareness, invests in regular training and cultivates proactive collaboration. Cyber threats are treated not as isolated IT challenges but as enterprise-wide risks demanding cohesive, consistent and rapid responses.

8. Potential pitfalls and mitigation strategies for financial institutions

While the benefits of organizational redesign can be substantial, there are several common pitfalls that financial institutions should be aware of:

Pitfall 1: Underestimating the cultural challenge

Organizational redesign is not merely a structural change — it requires significant cultural adaptation. Many financial institutions underestimate the difficulty of changing ingrained behaviors and mindsets, particularly in organizations with long-standing traditions and risk-averse cultures.

Mitigation strategy: Invest heavily in change management, leadership development and communication. Use behavioral levers (recognition, rewards and consequences) to reinforce desired behaviors. Research from McKinsey & Company reinforces this point, noting that successful digital transformations in financial services typically allocate roughly equal resources to technology implementation and organizational change management.

Pitfall 2: Overcentralizing decision authority

Some organizations centralize too much decision authority in pursuit of operational efficiency, creating new bottlenecks and slowing delivery. This is particularly problematic in financial institutions, where rapid decision-making may be needed for competitive or risk management reasons.

Mitigation strategy: Implement a thoughtful decision rights framework that pushes decisions to the appropriate level. Distinguish between decisions that require centralized control (e.g., architectural standards and security policies) and those that should be decentralized (e.g., sprint planning and user experience design).

Pitfall 3: Neglecting risk and compliance integration

Financial institutions that fail to integrate risk and compliance considerations into their new operating model often create parallel processes that undermine the benefits of the new structure.

Mitigation strategy: Include risk and compliance professionals in the design of the new operating model from the beginning. Embed risk and compliance capabilities within platform and product teams rather than treating them as separate functions outside the main delivery flow.

Pitfall 4: Neglecting middle management

Middle managers often bear the brunt of organizational change but receive the least support. Without their buy-in and capability, transformation efforts can stall.

Mitigation strategy: Provide extra coaching and support for middle managers. Create communities of practice where they can share challenges and solutions. Recognize that their role may change significantly and provide clear guidance on new expectations.

Pitfall 5: Expecting immediate results

Organizational redesign typically delivers value in stages rather than all at once. Unrealistic expectations can lead to a premature judgment that the new model isn't working.

Mitigation strategy: Set clear expectations about the timeline for benefits realization. Identify early wins that can demonstrate progress while longer-term changes take hold. Measure leading indicators of success rather than just lagging outcomes.

Banks can steer their transformation efforts toward sustained impact by recognizing and proactively addressing these common pitfalls. Yet even the best mitigation strategies must be anchored in a transparent, structured approach. The following roadmap provides WWT's step-by-step approach to implementing the organizational model outlined in this article, ensuring each initiative is carefully sequenced, resourced and aligned with the bank's broader strategic objectives.

9. About WWT Cyber Resilience

World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology solutions provider that partners with financial institutions to build and maintain resilient, secure and high-performing IT environments. Our cyber resilience approach is built around Define, Design, Validate and Operationalize methodology that ensures business alignment, technical rigor and ongoing optimization.

9.1 Define, Design, Validate and Operationalize

Define

Strategic plans and roadmaps: Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to create a cohesive cyber resilience strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with business objectives and regulatory drivers.
Quantitative risk analysis: Conduct data-driven evaluations to prioritize resilience initiatives, examining cost-benefit trade-offs and potential ROI on security investments.
Cyber resilience assessments: Perform in-depth reviews of current controls and threat landscapes to identify critical gaps and shape tailored recommendations.
Business Impact Analyses (BIA): Identify high-priority applications, dependencies and threat vectors, ensuring alignment with overarching objectives and compliance requirements.

Design

Develop the architectural blueprint for resilience (HLD/LLD), encompassing infrastructure, security controls, data protection and advanced recovery mechanisms.
Incorporate zero trust principles, immutable backups and secure vaulting strategies to safeguard critical data and reduce ransomware exposure.

Validate

Use WWT's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) to test proposed solutions in a secure, vendor-neutral environment before deployment.
Conduct scenario-based drills and tabletop exercises to verify solution performance, measure operational readiness, and capture key lessons learned.

Operationalize

Implement selected technologies, procedures and governance models across production environments.
Provide ongoing management, monitoring and continuous improvement services to sustain high levels of cyber resilience.

9.2 Fourteen workstreams and the AVA horizontals

WWT organizes its cyber resilience engagements into 14 distinct workstreams that collectively address every operational and cyber risk dimension. These workstreams encompass everything from data center architecture and cloud strategy to incident response, zero trust enforcement and regulatory compliance.

Applications, vaults and AI as horizontals:

Applications: Ensure that business-critical applications align with resilience goals, receiving the correct priority, security controls and recovery strategies.
Vaults: Establish secure, air-gapped data vaults to protect essential backups from ransomware and other destructive cyber attacks, enabling rapid restoration of core services under extreme scenarios.
AI: Integrate advanced analytics, machine learning and AI-driven threat detection to optimize incident response, proactively uncover vulnerabilities and continuously refine resilience posture.

By treating applications, vaults and AI as cross-cutting elements rather than isolated silos, WWT ensures that every workstream benefits from consistent and robust protection measures. This holistic approach creates synergies across the enterprise, enabling financial institutions to anticipate risks, reduce downtime and comply with dynamic regulatory requirements.

9.3 Why partner with WWT for cyber resilience?

Regulatory alignment: Our methodologies map directly to standards and guidelines from OSFI, FFIEC, BCBS, NIST and ISO, ensuring compliance readiness from day one.
Technical rigor: WWT validates designs in real-world conditions through our ATC, minimizing deployment risk and accelerating time-to-value.
Scalable solutions: Our end-to-end approach, from Define to Operationalize, adapts to organizations of all sizes, whether you need to fortify existing programs or embark on transformative resilience initiatives.
Continuous optimization: We offer managed services and ongoing support to sustain resilience, address emerging threats, and incorporate new technologies (e.g., AI-driven detection or advanced vaulting systems).

WWT's comprehensive Define, Design, Validate and Operationalize methodology, bolstered by 14 integrated workstreams and horizontal coverage for AVA, positions financial institutions to meet and exceed their operational resilience objectives in an increasingly complex risk environment.

Selected references

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) IT Examination Handbook – Business Continuity Management, 2019.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-34, "Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems," 2019.
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) SP 800-61, "Computer Security Incident Handling Guide," 2022.
Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), "Operational Resilience: Impact Tolerances for Important Business Services," Policy Statement PS6/21, 2021.
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), "Principles for Operational Resilience," March 2021.
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) Guideline B-13, "Technology and Cyber Risk Management," 2022.
Financial Stability Board (FSB) "Cyber Lexicon," 2018.
ISO 22301: "Security and Resilience – Business Continuity Management Systems," 2019.
ISO 27001: "Information Security Management," 2022.
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