Physical & Environmental Risk

Floods, fire, and power loss don't just damage buildings — they take systems and data offline. We help you understand and govern the physical risks to your IT, and plan for continuity.

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What it is — and why it matters.

Not every threat to your digital resilience is a cyberattack. Floods, fire, extended power outages, cooling failures, and other physical or environmental events can take IT systems and data offline just as effectively as an attacker. We help you see where your IT depends on physical infrastructure — your own or your providers' — and govern that risk: what's critical, what happens if it's lost, and what resilience and recovery arrangements are actually in place. (We focus on the IT and data dimension; broader business-continuity planning connects here as your resilience program matures.)

Who this affects.

Any organisation whose operations depend on IT systems, data centres, or cloud and hosting — particularly those with on-premises or single-site infrastructure, or critical dependencies on a single facility or region.

What's involved

How we help.

Dependency & impact mapping | Which IT services rely on which physical infrastructure.
Availability & continuity assessment | The risk to keeping systems and data online.
Resilience & recovery governance | Governing the arrangements that get you back up.
Provider requirements | Resilience requirements for data-centre and cloud providers.
Orchestrated recovery | Technical recovery capabilities delivered via partners.

Risk

Within your managed office.

Sits under Risk, connected to Architecture & Transformation (infrastructure design) and a natural bridge to broader operational/corporate resilience and business continuity (ISO 22301) as that scope opens up. Managed as part of your program.

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Enterprise Security Architecture

A business-driven, enterprise-wide architecture that links security to strategy — from business context down to logical and physical design, so every control traces back to a goal.

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Information Security Architecture

The structured design of security controls across your technical estate — identity, network, data, cloud, endpoints — as one coherent system aligned to your risks.

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