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Your Sheltered Harbor Partner 

Airwalk Reply is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Sheltered Harbor, the industry leading standard for data protection and operational resilience.

This collaboration strengthens our commitment to helping organisations prepare for, withstand and recover from catastrophic events – including cyber-attacks and critical system failures.  

Sheltered Harbor is a not-for-profit, industry-led standards-setting and certification organisation dedicated to protecting customer account data and preserving public confidence in the event of extreme operational disruption. 

Sheltered Harbor enhances traditional disaster recovery and business continuity through its practical blueprint designed to ensure companies are proactively planning for and able to recover from a severe operational outage.




Resilience-By-Design

There are three key elements to this Resilience-By-Design program:

  • 1.Data Vaulting:  the backing up of critical data regularly, in accordance with Sheltered Harbor standards.  Data vaults are encrypted, unchangeable and completely separated from the institution’s infrastructure.
  • 2. Resilience Planning: Sheltered Harbor participants must complete a rigorous and disciplined plan to address all business and technical steps necessary to restore critical business services in the event of a cyber-attack. 
  • 3. Certification:  Sheltered Harbor has defined specific playbooks that must be developed and tested by the institution before applying for and receiving Sheltered Harbor Cyber Resilience Certification.


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Show regulators and clients you meet the highest standards in cyber resilience

Regulators around the world recognise Sheltered Harbor as the financial industry’s standard setting and certification body for cyber resilience.  

Achieving Certification signals to regulatory, customers and stakeholders that your institution has implemented rigorous standards to protect critical data and maintain continuity under extreme conditions.  


Certification provides: ​​​​​​​

  • Independent verification of data protection and recovery readiness
  • Proof that the organisation has adopted best practice industry developed safeguards and resiliency controls
  • Enhanced customer trust and strategic advantage


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Guiding your organisation from readiness to certified resilience

As an official Sheltered Harbor partner Airwalk Reply can provide comprehensive support to help guide your organisation through the framework to successfully implement the standards required and achieve certification.  This could include Readiness Assessments and Gap Analysis, Data Vault strategy and deployment, Resilience Plan design and execution, and alignment with regulatory and operational frameworks.

Preparing for Sheltered Harbor certification involves rigorous documentation and compliance evidence but it is important to note that auditors do not just want to see paperwork.  Organisations must be able to practically demonstrate that mechanisms and controls work. 


Our six step process to certification:​​​​​​​

  1. Join 
  2. Program Initiative and planning
  3. Develop data vaulting solution and resilience plan. 
  4. Audit and Activation testing 
  5. Achieve sheltered Harbor Certification 


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