How Prepared Is Your Organization to Survive a Major Disruption?
Measure your modeled resilience posture across critical cyber, operational, infrastructure and physical disruption scenarios. Free. No login. Nothing is transmitted to our servers.
AI-CRRQ™ gives CISOs, CROs, and boards a structured, explainable Survival Index™ score that represents modeled operational survivability across defined cyber, operational, infrastructure and physical disruption scenarios, before the crisis hits.
It gives security, IT, GRC, legal, finance, HR, facilities, and audit teams a shared survivability view across 20 operational disruption scenarios, complementing your existing controls, BCP, and governance programs.
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The Survival Index™ is a directional self-assessment tool based on your inputs. Actual outcomes in a real cyber incident depend on many variables and cannot be guaranteed.
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Survival Index™ — Board view
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Primary result
Conservative Scenario Floor
36.3
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A deliberately conservative reading. By construction it can never exceed the Survival Index™, so it never flatters your posture.
AI-CRRQ™ is a structured analytical framework using deterministic scoring. It does not use machine learning or predictive AI models. All outputs are directional and intended for decision support only.
WHY “AI-CRRQ”?
The name describes what the framework measures, not how it calculates. AI-CRRQ™ was built for AI-era disruption: AI-enabled attacks, model failure, and agentic systems acting outside their boundaries are explicit scenarios in the framework. The Survival Index™ itself is deterministic. The same inputs always produce the same score, with no machine learning and no predictive modelling anywhere in it.
$10.5T
Estimated global cybercrime cost for 2025. Source: Cybersecurity Ventures.
241
Average days to identify and contain a breach: 181 to identify, 60 to contain. Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2025.
70%
Of breached organizations reported the breach caused significant or very significant disruption. Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024.
Hours–Days
Cyber incident reporting deadlines vary by jurisdiction, sector and materiality. NYDFS Part 500: 72 hours after determining a qualifying incident occurred. SEC Item 1.05: four business days after the materiality determination.
Sources: Global cybercrime cost estimate (2025) — Cybersecurity Ventures, 2025 Official Cybercrime Report. Breach lifecycle (241 days: 181 to identify, 60 to contain) — IBM / Ponemon Institute, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025. Operational disruption (70%) — IBM / Ponemon Institute, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024. Regulatory timeframes — NYDFS 23 NYCRR Part 500.17; SEC Form 8-K Item 1.05. Figures are cited for context and are not outputs of the AI-CRRQ™ model.
The Threat Landscape Has Changed. The Measurement Framework Has Not.
Organizations are simultaneously managing cyber threats, AI system failures, climate-driven physical disruptions, supply chain collapse, and regulatory enforcement, often in the same quarter. Yet most boards still receive a single-dimensional risk report focused on controls, not on whether the organization can actually keep operating through any of it.
AI-CRRQ™ was built for this exact moment. One framework. One score. Multiple disruption scenarios.
MULTI-VECTOR REALITY
Organizations increasingly face several kinds of disruption at once: cyber, physical, operational and regulatory, rather than one threat at a time.
REGULATORY PRESSURE
DORA requires financial entities to demonstrate ICT operational resilience, and NYDFS Part 500 sets business continuity and disaster recovery requirements. The SEC requires disclosure of material cyber incidents and a description of risk-management processes. The EU AI Act imposes risk-management, robustness and accuracy obligations on high-risk AI systems.
AI ACCELERATION
AI is simultaneously the fastest-growing attack vector and the most fragile new operational dependency. Both require survivability measurement.
Three Survivability Drivers
What AI-CRRQ™ Measures
Three operational vectors combine into one survivability number: the Survival Index™. Deterministic Model
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ORCI — RESPONSE CAPABILITY
Leadership & Operations
Operational Response Capability Index. Measures leadership readiness, crisis command clarity, and incident response maturity. The framework is built on the view that organizations often fail to sustain operations because leadership lacks tested crisis command, not because defenses were breached. That is a design assumption the model exists to test, not a demonstrated finding.
Executive view: Operational Resilience Score
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RVI — RECOVERY VELOCITY
Recovery & Continuity
Recovery Velocity Index. RTO/RPO attainment, failover capability, backup integrity, and business continuity plan maturity. How quickly and reliably can your organization restore critical operations after an incident?
Executive view: Recovery Speed Score
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TEI — DENOMINATOR
Threat Exposure
Threat Exposure Index. Financial exposure, breach probability, regulatory penalty risk, and attack surface breadth. As the primary pressure variable, higher threat exposure directly reduces survivability, even when resilience is strong.
Executive view: Threat Pressure Score
The Survivability Gap
Prevention Isn't Enough. Your Board Knows It. Your Insurers Know It.
Every major cyber incident reveals the same pattern: organizations with strong security programs still went dark, not because defenses failed, but because no one had measured whether they could keep running.
NIST CSF, ISO 27001, Zero Trust, and FAIR are essential frameworks that measure security maturity, control compliance, and financial risk exposure. These frameworks are not primarily designed to produce a single operational survivability score.
THE COMPLEMENTARY QUESTION AI-CRRQ™ ADDRESSES
Can We Keep Operating During a Cyberattack?
AI-CRRQ™ doesn’t replace those frameworks. It complements them. FAIR answers how much you could lose. NIST CSF and ISO 27001 answer how mature your controls are. AI-CRRQ™ asks whether you can keep operating while you lose it, with a single Survival Index™ score that tells you where you’ll fail first.
20 Operational Disruption Scenarios
One Framework. Many Scenarios. One Score.
The same three vectors apply across every scenario. The scenario drives the inputs; the score shows your modeled survivability posture under it.
08 SCENARIOS
Cyber & AI Threats
Ransomware, internet takedown, AI-enabled attack, supply chain compromise, insider threat, zero-day, cloud outage, business email compromise.
06 SCENARIOS
Infrastructure & Physical
Data center fire, power grid failure, hardware failure, natural disaster, telecom failure, facility loss.
06 SCENARIOS
Operational & Continuity
Key person loss, regulatory action, third-party failure, AI model failure, mass data breach, pandemic or workforce crisis.
Not Just a Score. A Complete Survivability Picture.
Two ways to engage, both built on the same Survival Index™ formula. Choose the starting point that fits your organization.
Illustrative Survival Index™ assessment output, shown with sample data.
Feature
Free Calculator
Facilitated Survival Index™ Assessment
Time required
60 seconds
90-minute facilitated session
Scoring method
Self-reported inputs
Expert-facilitated across all vectors
Survivability tier
✓ Included
✓ Included
Top failure point identified
✓ Directional
✓ Expert-identified, all vectors
30–90 day resilience roadmap
— Not included
✓ Structured roadmap delivered
Board-ready executive summary
— Not included
✓ Delivered within 3–5 business days
Regulatory alignment mapping
— Not included
✓ NYDFS, SEC, DORA, FFIEC
Board-ready summaries and regulatory alignment mapping are advisory output only, not a compliance certification, legal opinion, or guarantee of regulatory acceptance. Independent counsel and your existing control frameworks remain required.
Scenario-based tabletop support
— Not included
✓ Any of 20 disruption scenarios
Investment
Free
Confirmed prior to commencement
FREE CALCULATOR
✓ Your Survival Index™ score (0–100)
✓ Directional survivability score (two model outputs: 0–100)
✓ Your survivability tier (Critical / At Risk / Vulnerable / Resilient)
AI-CRRQ™ assessments are personally led by Alim Abdul, the framework's founder and architect, bringing 30+ years of cybersecurity and governance leadership directly to every engagement. As demand grows, AI-CRRQ™ intends to train additional practitioners to extend delivery capacity while preserving scoring consistency. AI-CRRQ™ does not issue certifications.
Assessments draw input from multiple internal stakeholders, including security, IT, GRC, legal, finance, and operations, ensuring scores reflect the full organizational picture. This structured delivery model is designed to produce consistent assessments across financial services, healthcare, and other regulated industries.
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Lead Facilitator: Alim Abdul, Founder & Architect
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Engagements are scheduled to preserve scoring consistency
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Consistent scoring and delivery standards across all engagements
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Designed for executive use in regulated and operationally complex organizations
Framework Methodology
A Documented Model. Honestly Scoped.
The Survival Index™ is a deterministic model built on documented design assumptions and three decades of practitioner observation. It has not been validated against real-world incident outcomes and does not predict whether a specific organization will survive a specific event. The methodology page sets out how the model is constructed, what it establishes today, and the stages required to establish empirical validity.
DETERMINISTIC BY DESIGN
The same inputs always produce the same score. No machine learning, no probabilistic inference, no hidden layer. The structure is published so any assessor or board member can see how the vectors combine. Scoring weights and tier calibration are provided to clients under agreement.
STAGE ONE OF SIX
The model is at conceptual validity: construction, documented rationale and practitioner review. Inter-rater reliability, retrospective testing and longitudinal outcome validation are set out as a published roadmap rather than claimed as completed work.
AI-CRRQ™ is designed to meet your organization at any starting point, from a 60-second directional score to a full facilitated executive assessment. Every engagement is scoped to your organization's size, complexity, and regulatory context.
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Step 1 — Free
Survivability Indicator
Get your directional Survival Index™ score in 60 seconds. No login. No cost. Identifies your survivability tier and top operational failure points, a starting point for every organization regardless of size or sector.
Free · No login · 60 seconds · Nothing transmitted
90-minute facilitated session led by Alim Abdul (founder-led practice). Expert-scored survivability posture, gap identification across all three vectors, a structured 30–90 day resilience roadmap, and a board-ready executive summary. Scoped to your organization's complexity.
Investment confirmed prior to commencement · All sectors and sizes
Quarterly rescoring, board-level reporting, strategic resilience roadmap maintenance, and ongoing advisory support. Enterprise licensing and MSSP delivery models available for organizations embedding AI-CRRQ™ into their broader risk governance program.
Stop explaining your program in abstract terms. Walk into the board meeting with a Survival Index™ score, a gap analysis, and a 90-day plan. You become the most prepared person in the room, before the incident forces the question.
→ Board-ready language, not technical jargon
→ Budget justification backed by a structured, explainable number
→ Quarterly score trends show program improvement
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FOR BOARDS & AUDIT COMMITTEES
Ask the Right Question.
Stop asking "Are we secure?" a question with no clear answer. Start asking "What is our Survival Index™?" a question with a number, a benchmark, and a trend. AI-CRRQ™ can provide structured supporting documentation for internal cyber risk governance and board discussion. Regulatory disclosure determinations remain the responsibility of the organization and its legal and compliance advisers.
→ Quantified cyber governance, not just assurance
→ Regulatory alignment: SEC, NYDFS, HIPAA, DORA
→ Documentation that can support cyber insurance discussions, subject to individual insurer and underwriting requirements
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FOR HEALTHCARE & FINANCIAL SERVICES
Because Downtime Isn't Just a Financial Loss.
For hospitals, a cyberattack means diverted ambulances, cancelled surgeries, and EHR blackouts. For banks, it means halted transactions and regulatory sanctions. AI-CRRQ™ speaks the language of operational continuity, including patient care, OR availability, and core banking uptime.
→ Healthcare: HIPAA and HITECH breach assessment and notification obligations
→ Financial: NYDFS Part 500, DORA, trading continuity
→ Mid-market: Right-sized assessments, clear ROI
Illustrative Scenario
What a 90-Day-Early Warning Looks Like
This is a hypothetical scenario, constructed from documented patterns across real ransomware incidents in healthcare. It is not a description of an actual AI-CRRQ™ client engagement. The same ransomware scenario, modeled two ways, with and without a prior AI-CRRQ™ assessment.
EHR systems encrypted. Leadership has no tested crisis protocol. Backup systems exist but have never been validated. The board asks "Can we keep treating patients?" no one has a number to answer with. Illustrative outcome based on documented ransomware incident patterns: extended multi-week outage, ambulance diversions, multi-million dollar recovery costs.
WITH AI-CRRQ™ (ASSESSED 90 DAYS PRIOR)
An AI-CRRQ™ assessment scores ORCI at 41 and flags crisis command as the primary gap. The organization uses those findings to test crisis protocols, validate backups and clarify recovery priorities. These actions are intended to improve operational readiness. Actual incident outcomes depend on many variables and cannot be predicted or guaranteed.
THE DIFFERENCE
The difference in this illustration is not better security. It is a structured score that surfaced the ORCI gap early enough to act on, and leadership that acted. Whether that changes a real incident outcome is exactly what AI-CRRQ™ has not yet established.
When AI Systems Fail, Does Your Organization Survive?
Traditional AI governance frameworks measure model compliance and control presence. AI-CRRQ™ measures what happens operationally when those controls are not enough, quantifying survivability when AI risk becomes an operational event.
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Internal vs. Third-Party AI Model Risk
Whether your organization develops AI internally or deploys third-party models, the survivability question is the same, if the model is compromised, manipulated, or fails, can operations continue? AI-CRRQ™ frames AI model risk as an operational continuity variable, not just a compliance checkbox.
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AI-Enabled Threats & Operational Blast Radius
Prompt injection, AI-enabled social engineering, and deepfake executive impersonation are not just security incidents, they are operational disruption events. AI-CRRQ™ measures whether your leadership and response capability can contain the blast radius before it becomes an existential operational failure.
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Model Risk Cascading Into Operational Failure
AI model failures in regulated environments, hallucinations in clinical decisions, corrupted outputs in financial transactions, compromised agentic AI processes, can cascade into operational shutdowns with regulatory consequences. Survivability quantification identifies where model risk intersects with operational continuity before the cascade begins.
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Embedding Survivability into AI GRC & SDLC
AI governance embedded in GRC and SDLC produces compliance evidence, but rarely survivability evidence. AI-CRRQ™ adds an operational continuity layer alongside the documentation these regimes call for. Regulatory mappings are advisory and do not constitute legal or compliance advice.
FOR AI GOVERNANCE LEADERS
While others focus on securing AI, AI-CRRQ™ measures whether your organization survives when AI security fails.
Cyber risk measures exposure. Resilience determines whether the organization survives it.
— Alim Abdul, Cyber Risk & Governance Advisor · Architect, AI-CRRQ™ AICRRQ Inc.
Know Your Number
Your Next Board Meeting Is Coming. Know Your Score Before It Does.
The Survival Index™ takes 60 seconds. No login. Nothing is transmitted to our servers. Your score, your top failure points, and a clear signal on where to focus first.
