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What must continue?
Identify the operations, outcomes, and commitments whose loss would create material business consequences.
Critical Operations Cyber Review
Build an enterprise view of the operations cyber risk can disrupt.
CAST applies Business-Critical Cyber Mapping to show what must continue, how cyber disruption could reach it, and what leadership should address first.
The flagship engagement
Three questions the review is built to answer.
The review identifies all critical operations within the agreed enterprise boundary, then follows consequence to determine where deeper analysis is needed.
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How could they fail?
Expose shared dependencies, trust paths, operational chokepoints, and credible cyber disruption scenarios.
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What should happen first?
Prioritize decisions and actions using evidence, confidence, operational consequence, and responsible ownership.
The BCCM Analysis System
A repeatable path from operational evidence to executive action.
CAST uses a structured analytical system to conduct and document every review.
The model records relationships among operations, dependencies, threat paths, evidence, assumptions, confidence, risks, decisions, and action owners. This makes the reasoning behind each priority visible and reviewable.
Define
Set the operating boundary, consequence thresholds, decision objectives, participants, and evidence needs.
Identify
Establish the products, services, workflows, and delivery commitments the business must preserve.
Map
Connect operations to people, technology, identities, data, vendors, facilities, and recovery paths.
Analyze
Trace shared dependencies, concentration risk, vulnerabilities, and credible disruption paths.
Decide
Validate the analysis, brief leadership, assign owners, and launch the 90-day action plan.
Tangible outputs
One connected package for leadership and technical owners.
Operational landscape
- Critical Operations Map
- Shared Dependency Diagram
- Concentration-risk view
Defensible analysis
- Threat-Path Analysis
- Prioritized Risk Register
- Evidence, assumptions, and confidence
Decision and action
- Executive Summary and briefing
- 90-Day Action Plan
- Owners and verification steps
Evidence and boundaries
Clear scope and visible reasoning make the work defensible.
Leadership can see what supports each conclusion, where uncertainty remains, and what would change the analysis.
Traceable evidence
Findings reference available documentation, architecture, operational artifacts, technical information, and stakeholder interviews.
Documented confidence
Assumptions, evidence gaps, stakeholder validation, and confidence are recorded instead of hidden behind a score.
Protected scope
Incomplete or inaccurate documentation may reduce confidence, become a finding, or require additional discovery agreed before scope expands.
Commercial terms
A fixed fee is established before work begins.
The fee reflects the complexity of the operational landscape being analyzed, not arbitrary company size.
Scope considers operational complexity, the number of critical operations, interconnected systems, the technology environment, documentation quality, stakeholder involvement, and review depth. The scope, fee, schedule, required inputs, and deliverables are documented in advance.
Request a notional BCCM worked example.
The fictional example shows how critical operations, shared dependencies, threat paths, evidence, prioritized risks, and a 90-day action plan come together in a decision-ready package.