SHELTERED HARBOR
Recognized by regulators globally as the gold standard
for robust resilience and rapid business recovery.
for robust resilience and rapid business recovery.
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WHAT IS SHELTERED HARBOR
Sheltered Harbor was founded as a not-for-profit standards setting and certification body to protect customers, financial institutions and public confidence in the financial system when a catastrophic event such as a cyber attack causes critical systems, including backups, to fail.
Sheltered Harbor's standards supplement Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) plans to help every participating organization prepare for and recover quickly from a severe operational outage, data corruption, or data deletion event. We promote adoption across the industry, support participants with implementation and ensure adherence through independent audits and certifications.
Read the open letter by trade association CEOs to the industry.
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
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
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
HOW IT WORKS
The core elements of Sheltered Harbor are data vaulting, resiliency planning and certification.
DATA VAULTING
Institutions back up critical data on a defined schedule into an untouchable offline archive.
RESILIENCE PLANNING
Institutions prepare their business processes to be activated in a crisis, like a severe operational outage caused by a cyber incident (termed a ‘Sheltered Harbor event’).
CERTIFICATION
Upon successful implementation and testing, participants achieve Sheltered Harbor Certification.
HOW IT WORKS
The core elements of Sheltered Harbor are data vaulting, resiliency planning and certification.
DATA VAULTING
Institutions back up critical data on a defined schedule into an untouchable offline archive.
RESILIENCE PLANNING
Institutions prepare their business processes to be activated in a crisis, like a severe operational outage caused by a cyber incident (termed a ‘Sheltered Harbor event’).
CERTIFICATION
Upon successful implementation and testing, participants achieve Sheltered Harbor Certification.
HOW IT WORKS
The core elements of Sheltered Harbor are data vaulting, resiliency planning and certification.
DATA VAULTING
Institutions back up critical data on a defined schedule into an untouchable offline archive.
RESILIENCE PLANNING
Institutions prepare their business processes to be activated in a crisis, like a severe operational outage caused by a cyber incident (termed a ‘Sheltered Harbor event’).
CERTIFICATION
Upon successful implementation and testing, participants achieve Sheltered Harbor Certification.
HOW IT WORKS
The core elements of Sheltered Harbor are data vaulting, resiliency planning and certification.
DATA VAULTING
Institutions back up critical data on a defined schedule into an untouchable offline archive.
RESILIENCE PLANNING
Institutions prepare their business processes to be activated in a crisis, like a severe operational outage caused by a cyber incident (termed a ‘Sheltered Harbor event’).
CERTIFICATION
Upon successful implementation and testing, participants achieve Sheltered Harbor Certification.
HOW IT WORKS
The core elements of Sheltered Harbor are data vaulting, resiliency planning and certification.
DATA VAULTING
Institutions back up critical data on a defined schedule into an untouchable offline archive.
RESILIENCE PLANNING
Institutions prepare their business processes to be activated in a crisis, like a severe operational outage caused by a cyber incident (termed a ‘Sheltered Harbor event’).
CERTIFICATION
Upon successful implementation and testing, participants achieve Sheltered Harbor Certification.
