Cyber attack contingency plans should be put on paper, firms told [View all]

Source: BBC

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The government has written to chief executives across the country strongly recommending that they should have physical copies of their plans at the ready as a precaution.

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Firms are being urged to look beyond cyber-security controls toward a strategy known as "resilience engineering", which focuses on building systems that can anticipate, absorb, recover, and adapt, in the event of an attack.

Plans should be stored in paper form or offline, the agency suggests, and include information about how teams will communicate without work email and other analogue work arounds.

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"The call for pen and paper might sound old-fashioned, but it's practical," said Graeme Stewart, head of public sector at cyber-security firm Check Point, noting digital systems can be rendered "useless" once targeted by hackers.

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