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The cyber resilience playbook
For private company leaders
Strengthen your cyber posture and operational continuity with five commitments, specifically designed for private companies.
Building trust before it’s tested
For private companies, cyber resilience is shaped less by external pressure and more by the priorities leaders set inside the business. That creates a cybersecurity accountability gap—one that private company leaders can close by making cyber resilience a business and leadership priority. When growth demands and daily operations compete for attention, cybersecurity can be easy to defer. But companies that keep it on the leadership agenda can strengthen readiness, protect long-term value, and treat cyber as a legitimate revenue driver instead of an IT issue to revisit later.
Cybersecurity is now a signal of trust. Enterprise clients are raising expectations for supplier security as attackers increasingly target suppliers as an entry point into larger networks. By building strong, demonstrable controls now, private companies can strengthen customer confidence, reduce friction during diligence, and showcase operational preparedness.
Five commitments behind better cyber resilience
Gain a sneak peek at the playbook, featuring insights from Deloitte's cybersecurity professionals on why each move matters.
Define your risk tolerance
Risk can never be reduced to zero. Resiliency is about deciding exactly how much operational disruption your business is willing to handle, and aligning your investments, insurance, and processes to that standard. Tech teams cannot decide this for you; the board and the CEO should own their risk appetite.
Map the heartbeat of your business
If an investment firm's clients can't view their accounts, or a hospital can't pull up patient records, that's not just downtime, that could be an extinction-level event. Identify these 'heartbeat' processes first and put your resources there.
Modernize how you triage risk
AI-discovered vulnerabilities are real; that part isn't hype. But for a private company, the bigger problem is often velocity, not novelty. You're still working through known vulnerabilities while attackers have sped up on every front.
Close your access gaps
In fast-growing private companies, people accumulate excessive permissions over time. Implementing a least-privilege model alongside Privileged Access Management (PAM) ensures that even if credentials are compromised, the attacker's blast radius is contained.
Practice makes prudence
Crisis response often fails at the most fundamental level: communication. Without pre-established alternative channels to connect important executives, legal counsel, and partners, an organization's response can be paralyzed before it even begins.
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Tiffany Kleemann
Pete Renneker
