Cyber Resilience Advisory
Understand what matters most. Control the blast radius.
We are a specialist cyber resilience consultancy. We help senior operational leaders identify critical assets, map invisible dependency paths, and build defensible resilience under pressure.
Community leadership
We are actively engaged in leading cybersecurity communities and collaborate with best-in-class peers such as NIST, MITRE, ISSA, FIRST, World Economic Forum, OASIS Open.
High Value Target
At High Value Target, we are reshaping the future of cyber resilience.
Our mission is to protect what's most critical - the assets, operations, and capabilities that your organization simply cannot afford to lose.
We are a boutique research firm that specializes in designing and implementing methodologies aimed at significantly increasing an organization’s cyber resilience posture against sophisticated cyber threats. We are actively engaged in leading cybersecurity communities and collaborate with best-in-class peers such as NIST, MITRE, ISSA, FIRST, World Economic Forum, OASIS Open.
Most organizations prioritize cyber risk too generically.
The illusion of coverage
Compliance frameworks provide a baseline, but they rarely reflect the systems an advanced adversary would actually prioritize to create operational disruption. Coverage looks broad while resilience remains shallow.
Invisible dependency paths
Resilience breaks down when dependencies are not visible. A defensible capability requires understanding how a localized failure cascades through people, technology, third parties, and restoration processes.
Structure
Our structure is built on three core units, each essential to delivering true resilience.
We build and share knowledge to elevate the entire resilience community, influence best practices from technical standards to executive strategy, and help organizations embed resilience into their DNA.
Research & Innovation
Our Research Unit powers thought leadership and innovation in cyber resilience. We contribute to major global initiatives, including work around:
- Community leadership like the ISSA Cyber Resilience Special Interest Group and OASIS initiatives.
- Development of frameworks such as the MITRE Cyber Resilience Engineering Framework and the Cyber Resilience Manifesto.
- Global collaborations across organizations like the World Economic Forum, ENISA, and NIST.
- Tools and models like the Cyber Resilience Capability Maturity Model (CR-CMM).
Services & Delivery
Our Delivery Unit ensures that resilience isn’t just an idea — it's operationalized. We offer high-impact services such as:
- Consultancy and strategic advisory for building cyber resilience programs.
- Critical asset identification engagements using High Value Target methodologies.
- Cyber resilience maturity assessments and gap analyses.
- Tabletop exercises and scenario-driven workshops tailored to real-world adversarial threats.
- Blueprints, operating models, and toolkits ready for immediate deployment.
Trainings & Certification
Our Training Unit is the home of the Cyber Resilience Academy — the premier education platform for resilience leaders. Through our Academy, we deliver:
- Cyber Resilience Academy Foundation and Advanced Courses.
- Certified Cyber Resilience Officer training and accreditation.
- Masterclasses, accelerator bootcamps, and global keynote programs.
- Cyber Resilience Awareness Day, supported by leaders such as ISSA, MITRE, and the United Nations.
Methodology
The Trusted Source In Critical Assets Identification For Increased Cyber Resilience
High Value Target allows organizations to focus defenses where they matter most by identifying the systems, roles, third parties, and data that advanced adversaries can weaponize to create outsized operational disruption.
Why it matters
Current cyber resilience and business impact analysis practices often lack a clear method for determining the value an advanced adversary places on a target. HVTM overlays that attacker perspective on top of existing methods.
What it changes
Once High Value Targets are identified, secured, and continuously governed, organizations can prioritize defensive investment more precisely and build resilience around the systems most likely to amplify blast radius.
Materials & Research
Advisory briefings & reports
Zero Trust Guidance for Achieving Operational Resilience
Practical organizational and architectural guidance for leveraging Zero Trust principles to achieve operational resilience across modern enterprises.
An Adversarial Viewpoint To Identify High Value Targets For Increased Cyber Resilience
Qualitative and quantitative methodology for increasing cyber resilience by accounting for the value threat actors place on a given asset.
Enhancing STIX with High Value Target (HVT) Semantics
Translate High Value Target thinking into structured cyber threat intelligence and cross-team operational clarity.
Supplemental Programs
Continuous resilience architecture
Extend your capability beyond initial assessment with technical toolkits and continuous mapping frameworks.
CR-CMM Assessment
Establish your current maturity baseline before structuring a formal consulting engagement.
Cyber Resilience Academy
Training, accreditation, and executive development for leaders building cyber resilience capabilities.
Cyber Resilience Manifesto
A resilience-by-design initiative focused on governance, accountability, and the operating principles behind durable resilience programs.
Defend what matters most.
Stop distributing defensive resources evenly. Identify your high value targets and build resilient architecture where failure is unacceptable.