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What is Sheltered Harbor?

Sheltered Harbor was founded to protect customers, financial institutions, and public confidence in the financial system when a catastrophic event such as a cyberattack causes critical systems — including backups — to fail. Implementing Sheltered Harbor’s standards augments an institution’s disaster recovery and business continuity plans, with industry-developed crisis and emergency management processes. This enables institutions to proactively plan for and recover from crisis and continue to provide essential services for its customers while it reestablishes normal operations. Sheltered Harbor is a not-for-profit, industry-led “standards setting and certification” organization comprised of financial institutions, core service providers, national trade associations, alliance partners and solution providers dedicated to enhancing financial sector stability and resiliency.

Read the open letter by trade association CEOs to the industry: Join Sheltered Harbor

 

Testimonials

Participants and Partners speaking about Sheltered Harbor

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Moving quickly after a seismic cyber event is paramount to preserving the public’s confidence in the banking system, and Sheltered Harbor is the lifeline for resiliency. To maintain public confidence, community banks should make Sheltered Harbor certification a priority.

Lance Noggle
Senior Vice President, Operations and Senior Regulatory Counsel
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The Sheltered Harbor standards and certification process provides banks with an important tool to protect account holders and enhance a bank’s resiliency. This is particularly important now given the growing threats from destructive malware and ransomware attacks and the imperative that banks maintain and quickly recover immutable back-up data.

John Carlson
Senior Vice President, Cybersecurity Regulation and Resilience
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With the ever-growing threat and sophistication of ransomware, participation in Sheltered Harbor protects both the financial industry and consumers by ensuring that their most critical financial records are always safe and can be recovered. By adding Sheltered Harbor to your resiliency framework, you can do your part in guaranteeing that your account holders are always protected.

Scott Daniel
Senior Director of Business Continuity
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Sheltered Harbor is a fundamental part of a resilience strategy, ensuring your business can recover and restore critical operations when all else fails. Every financial institution should be Sheltered Harbor Certified as it signals to consumers and regulators that your business prioritizes data security and resiliency in preparation for the unthinkable.

Chris Feeney
Executive Vice President and President of BITS
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How it Works

The core elements of Sheltered Harbor are data vaulting, resiliency planning, and certification.

Data Vaulting

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Institututions backup critical data on a defined schedule into an untouchable offline archive.

Resilience Planning

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Institututions prepare the business processes to be activated in a severe yet plausible (Sheltered Harbor) event.

Certification

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Upon successful implementation and testing, participants achieve Sheltered Harbor Certification. 

Why Sheltered Harbor?

Sheltered Harbor is the not-for-profit, industry-led effort developed by and for the financial services industry as a critical backup of last resort. 

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