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CYBER SURVIVABILITY QUANTIFICATION
Quantify your resilience posture in 60 seconds, across any disruption scenario. Free. No login. No data collected.
AI-CRRQ™ gives CISOs, CROs, and boards a single, defensible Survival Index™ score that quantifies operational survivability across any disruption, including cyber, physical, infrastructure, or environmental, 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.
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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Sources: Global cybercrime cost projection — Cybersecurity Ventures, 2025 Official Cybercrime Report (cybersecurityventures.com) · Average days to identify & contain a breach — IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 (ibm.com/reports/data-breach) · Operational disruption — IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024 · 72-hour notification window — NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation Part 500 & SEC Cyber Disclosure Rules
Framework validation: 5-year breach data analysis & 10,000+ Monte Carlo simulations →
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. Every threat type.
In 2024, the average organization experienced disruptions from 3+ simultaneous threat categories, including cyber, physical, and operational.
NYDFS, SEC, DORA, and the EU AI Act now require organizations to demonstrate operational resilience, not just control presence.
AI is simultaneously the fastest-growing attack vector and the most fragile new operational dependency. Both require survivability measurement.
AI-CRRQ™ applies the same Survival Index™ formula across every disruption scenario your organization faces, from ransomware to hurricanes, and from hardware failure to pandemic. The three vectors (TEI · ORCI · RVI) are universal. The scenario drives the inputs. The score tells you if you survive.
Pay or no pay decision. Encryption containment. Regulatory notification within 72 hours. Negotiation and recovery sequencing.
DDoS, BGP hijack, ISP failure, DNS attack. Can the organization operate without internet connectivity? For how long?
Deepfake CEO fraud, AI-powered phishing at scale, voice cloning wire transfer fraud. Identifying and halting AI-driven social engineering.
Compromised software vendor (SolarWinds-style), malicious package injection, trusted update mechanism weaponized.
Malicious or accidental data exfiltration. Rogue admin privilege abuse. Detection, containment, and notification sequencing.
Critical unpatched vulnerability actively exploited. Emergency patch deployment, compensating controls, operational continuity during remediation.
AWS, Azure, or GCP regional failure. Can you operate without your primary cloud? Multi-cloud failover. On-premise fallback readiness.
Wire fraud, invoice manipulation, executive impersonation. Detection speed, financial recovery, vendor notification, and regulatory reporting.
Physical destruction of primary data center. Geo-redundancy activation, failover to DR site, vendor coordination, insurance notification.
Extended utility outage. UPS capacity hours, generator fuel supply, critical system prioritization, manual process activation.
Critical server, storage array, or network device failure. RAID integrity, vendor SLA response, hot spare availability, operational impact timeline.
Earthquake, hurricane, flood, or tornado affecting primary operations. Geographic risk score, facility vulnerability, staff safety, supply chain disruption.
Voice and data outage across primary carrier. Backup carrier activation, cellular failover, critical communication alternatives, vendor escalation.
Building evacuation, inaccessibility, or loss. Remote work activation, alternate site readiness, physical asset recovery, staff communication protocols.
Sudden departure or incapacitation of CISO, CTO, CIO, or other critical technology leader. Succession plan activation, knowledge transfer, interim coverage.
Exam failure, consent order, or enforcement action. NYDFS, SEC, OCC, or DOH notification. Remediation plan, board reporting, operational restriction management.
Critical vendor bankruptcy, service termination, or major outage. Vendor concentration risk, contract termination provisions, replacement timeline, operational workarounds.
Model hallucination causing business decisions, AI poisoning, or agentic AI acting outside boundaries. Manual override, model rollback, operational impact containment.
PII or PHI exposure requiring mass notification. 72-hour regulatory clock, breach counsel engagement, notification vendor, credit monitoring, board communication.
Mass workforce unavailability, government-ordered shutdown, or public health emergency. Remote work capacity, critical role coverage, supply chain disruption, regulatory accommodations.
Each scenario uses the same Survival Index™ formula with scenario-specific inputs, giving you a defensible, scored resilience posture for every threat your organization faces.
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. None of them answer the question your board is now asking.
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.
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Take the free Survival Index™ calculator. Three inputs. One number from 0–100. Immediate signal on where your organization stands, and your top two failure points.
Get Your Score Now →90-minute facilitated session led by Alim Abdul (founder-led practice; assessment slots limited). Expert-scored survivability posture, top gaps identified, structured 30–90 day resilience roadmap, and a board-ready executive summary. Scope and investment confirmed prior to commencement.
Request an Assessment →A prioritized 30–90 day roadmap tied directly to your Survival Index™ score. Quarterly rescoring tracks progress. The CISO walks into every board meeting with a number, a trend, and a plan.
View Advisory Services →Two ways to engage, both built on the same Survival Index™ formula. Choose the starting point that fits your organization.
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.
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. SEC cyber disclosure rules require defensible documentation. This is it.
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.
Three operational vectors combine into one survivability number: the Survival Index™. Proprietary Weighted Model
Operational Response Capability Index. Measures leadership readiness, crisis command clarity, and incident response maturity. Organizations fail at survival because leadership cannot sustain operations, not because defenses were breached.
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?
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.
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.
AI-CRRQ™ scored ORCI at 41, a gap flagged 90 days before the attack. Crisis protocols were tested. Backup validation completed. When ransomware hit, leadership activated a practiced response. Illustrative outcome: significantly reduced downtime, maintained ambulance capacity, faster recovery, outcomes consistent with organizations that have pre-tested their crisis response.
The second hospital didn't have better security. They had a Survival Index™ score that identified their ORCI gap 90 days in advance, and a CISO who acted on it. That's what operational resilience leadership looks like.
Find Your Gaps Before the Incident →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.
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.
90-minute facilitated session led by Alim Abdul (founder-led practice; assessment slots limited). 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.
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.
Every engagement begins with a no-obligation scoping conversation. Investment is confirmed before any work begins. Contact us to discuss your organization's needs →
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™ is building a certified practitioner program to extend delivery capacity while preserving scoring consistency.
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 ensures consistent, high-quality outcomes for enterprise clients across financial services, healthcare, and regulated industries at scale.
Lead Facilitator: Alim Abdul, Founder & Architect
Assessment slots limited to preserve engagement quality and scoring consistency
Consistent scoring and delivery standards across all engagements
Enterprise-ready for regulated industries requiring institutional delivery
The Survival Index™ was calibrated against aggregated public breach data (2020–2025) and stress-tested with 10,000+ Monte Carlo simulation iterations — not built on theoretical assumptions alone. This is model construction and internal stress-testing, not yet a validated predictor of real-world outcomes; AI-CRRQ™ is building a live client outcome dataset to test real-world predictive accuracy over time.
Calibrated against aggregated public breach data across financial services, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. In internal simulation modeling, ORCI showed the largest effect on simulated recovery outcomes — a directional finding under continuous calibration, not yet validated against real client outcomes.
Modeled realistic attack scenarios including ransomware, AI model poisoning, prompt injection, and supply chain compromise. Result: strong internal consistency between Survival Index™ scores and simulated operational outcomes across iterations — a measure of model stability, not a validated real-world predictor.
"Assume breach. Assess your posture."
Cyber risk measures exposure. Resilience determines whether the organization survives it.
— Alim Abdul, Cyber Risk & Governance Advisor · Architect, AI-CRRQ™The Survival Index™ takes 60 seconds. No login. No data collected. Your score, your top failure points, and a clear signal on where to focus first.
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