Introduction: Why now ?
The benefits of digital preparedness
How this guide is meant to be used
1. Communication when everything is down
2. Identity and access survival
3. Define Minimum Survivable Service (MSS)
4. Vendor, supply chain, and platform dependencies
5. Data preparedness
6. Infrastructure exit strategy
7. Banking, finance, and financial continuity
8. Legal, compliance, and corporate control
9. Intellectual Property, source code, and knowledge survival
10. Operational runbooks that work under stress
11. Test one failure scenario per year
12. Cost, trade-offs, and founder reality
13. 30/90/365 day preparedness roadmap
Conclusion: preparedness as a strategic advantage

7. Banking, finance, and financial continuity

Two days after the Shock, the CTO declared the infrastructure stabilized. Core services were limping along on a regional provider. Customer data had been restored from offline backups. For the first time, the leadership team exhaled. But the panic was still real in the finance departement. Six months earlier, the

8. Legal, compliance, and corporate control

The Shock happened thirty-six hours ago. The infrastructure team has stabilized the core systems. A few services are responding again. Leadership exhales. Then the CFO calls. Payroll is due in two days. The finance team has moved to a backup system and can technically process payments. But the bank is

6. Infrastructure exit strategy

Twenty-four hours after the Shock, the mood briefly shifts. Against all odds, the IT team had made real progress. A regional provider was identified. Accounts were opened. Networks recreated. Containers pulled. One by one, core services start responding again. It is slower than before, rougher, missing pieces - but alive.

5. Data preparedness

The IT team has not gone home. They worked through the night, sleeping in turns, living on bad coffee and adrenaline. By morning, the situation looks finally better. Many systems respond again. Then people start opening applications. The ERP loads, no error. But it’s impossible not to notice it’

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7. Banking, finance, and financial continuity

8. Legal, compliance, and corporate control

6. Infrastructure exit strategy

5. Data preparedness