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      Cyber Defense & Cyber Resilience

      KPMG in Greece has extensive experience and expertise across the full spectrum of cybersecurity and cyber defense. Beyond assessing cybersecurity and aligning it with business priorities, we help organizations develop advanced solutions, implement them, monitor and adapt to evolving cyber risks, and respond effectively to cyberattacks. Regardless of your organization’s maturity level in its cybersecurity journey, KPMG can help you reach your destination. We don’t focus solely on prevention and deterrence; we help organizations build the operational capabilities needed to achieve true cyber resilience.

      The organizations that will survive are not those that will never face a cyberattack, but those that can continue operating during an attack and recover quickly afterward.

      Strategy & Governance

      Emerging technologies create new opportunities for organizations that recognize cybersecurity as a strategic priority and a driver of growth. KPMG in Greece supports you in risk management and in developing roadmaps and technologies for Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) and Integrated Risk Management.

      We help you build a reliable Artificial Intelligence strategy, with a focus on responsible design and responsible implementation. Our services and solutions contribute to aligning cybersecurity investments with business objectives, enabling you to shape your organization’s future with confidence.

      Security Transformation

      Cybersecurity transformation helps you respond to the constantly evolving threat landscape and adapt to changing regulatory and compliance requirements. KPMG in Greece has the technology, experience and deep industry expertise to deliver comprehensive cyber transformation programs, strengthening your security posture while enabling you to leverage emerging technologies and shape the future with confidence.

      Cyber Threat Management

      Emerging technologies, both inside and outside the organization, are creating a continuously evolving threat landscape. KPMG’s Cyber Security Services help organizations defend, respond, recover and strengthen their resilience against cyber threats, across the full spectrum of IT and OT applications and infrastructures.

      Access to modern expertise and continuously updated services ensures that your organization is able to recover quickly. By leveraging automation, you can transform your SOC, manage an ever‑expanding attack surface, and shape your future with confidence.

      Cyber Managed Services

      KPMG’s Cyber Security Services, such as MDR (Managed Detection and Response), help you defend, respond, recover, and strengthen your resilience against cyber threats across the full spectrum of IT and OT applications and infrastructures. Access to modern services and continuously updated platforms ensures that your organization has the capabilities to recover quickly.

      By leveraging automation, you can transform your SOC, manage an ever‑expanding attack surface, and shape your organization’s future with confidence.

      Mission-Ready Cyber Resilience

      Keep critical services operational—anticipate, withstand, adapt, recover.

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      Why does Cyber Resilience matter?

      Cyberattacks are no longer rare, isolated IT incidents. They represent a fundamental business risk that can disrupt operations, erode trust, and trigger regulatory scrutiny. Leading organizations recognize that prevention alone is not enough — resilience is what determines whether a business can survive and recover under pressure. The question is no longer if an organization’s infrastructure will be breached, but how quickly it can detect, contain, and recover from an attack.

      Today, with the use of technologies such as artificial intelligence, cyberattacks have become faster, smarter, and largely automated. This means that an attacker can, within minutes — not days — gain access to a system, move laterally within the network, exfiltrate data, and encrypt it afterward.

      Cyber resilience is no longer just about having the right technologies; it is an operational capability and a strategic priority. It is the ability to anticipate, withstand, adapt to, and recover from cyberattacks while maintaining critical business services. It moves organizations beyond fragmented security measures toward measurable operational continuity and increased leadership confidence.

      A Board‑Level Imperative

      Cyberattacks are no longer rare, isolated IT incidents. They represent a fundamental business risk that can disrupt operations, erode trust, and trigger regulatory scrutiny. Leading organizations recognize that prevention alone is not enough — resilience is what determines whether a business can survive and recover under pressure. The question is no longer if an organization’s infrastructure will be breached, but how quickly it can detect, contain, and recover from an attack.

      Today, with technologies such as artificial intelligence, cyberattacks have become faster, smarter, and largely automated. This means that an attacker can — within minutes, not days — gain access to a system, move laterally across the network, exfiltrate data, and encrypt it.

      Cyber resilience is no longer simply about having the right technologies; it is an operational capability and a strategic priority. It is the ability to anticipate, withstand, adapt to, and recover from cyberattacks while maintaining critical business services. It shifts organizations beyond fragmented security measures toward measurable operational continuity and increased leadership confidence.

      Cyber resilience is no longer a technical or operational issue — it has become a regulatory responsibility at the Board level. Across Europe and globally, regulators are explicitly linking cyber resilience to governance, accountability, and the personal responsibility of Board members and senior leadership.

      Regulatory frameworks and requirements such as NIS2, DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act), sector‑specific supervisory expectations, as well as widely adopted standards (e.g., ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST and operational resilience frameworks), require organizations to demonstrate not only strong preventive security controls, but also the ability to maintain critical services during a cyber incident and recover within defined tolerance levels.

      As a result, cyber resilience is now inseparable from business continuity, operational resilience, and enterprise risk management. Boards and executive leaders need reliable assurance that the organization:

      • can withstand a successful cyberattack
      • can make disciplined decisions under pressure and restore critical functions quickly, while demonstrating compliance, control, and accountability to regulators and stakeholders

      Organizations are now embedding cyber resilience at the core of their strategy, directly linking it to cyber incident management and business continuity.

      In practice, this means that cyber resilience is not limited to IT or the SOC. It extends across the entire organization:

      • At the leadership level

        which is required to make decisions under pressure

      • Across business units

        which must continue operating even under active cyberattacks

      • Across the supply chain

        which has now become a primary entry point for attacks

      The main reason it can no longer be treated as an IT issue is simple: cyberattacks are not just technical incidents — they are business crises.

      An attack today can halt production, impact physical infrastructure, cause financial losses, and damage customer and partner trust.

      Especially in environments where IT and OT converge, such as in energy or transportation, cybersecurity is directly linked to the operation of the organization itself — not just its information systems.

      This is why we are seeing a clear shift from protecting systems to ensuring business operations.

      Mature organizations are now investing in five key pillars:

      • Proper preparation
      • Ability to detect cyber threats
      • Effective response
      • Rapid recovery
      • Continuous adaptation through exercises and ongoing dynamic testing, leveraging the insights generated

      Ultimately, cyber resilience is a matter of leadership — it is about building operational capabilities, not just deploying technology.

      Value Proposition

      We help organizations move beyond tool‑centric security and “tick‑the‑box” compliance, transitioning to measurable, outcome‑driven cyber resilience — focused on the results that truly matter when systems are under attack.

      Our approach integrates prevention, detection, response and recovery into a single, cohesive operating model designed to:

      • Maintain

        critical business services during cyberattacks, not just protect systems.

      • Reduce

        impact and recovery time through disciplined response and tested recovery capabilities.

      • Provide

        board‑level assurance through clear, business‑relevant resilience indicators.

      We position cyber resilience as a strategic capability, not a technical cost — fully aligned with business continuity, regulatory requirements, and enterprise risk management.

      Our Cyber Resilience Model

      Our approach is based on a proven, end‑to‑end cyber resilience model that aligns technology, governance and people around what matters most to the business. At its core are the Business Impact Assessment (BIA) and the Digital Crown Jewels (DCJ) analysis, ensuring that resilience investments protect the services and assets that are truly critical.

      Our Cyber Resilience Services

      We provide end‑to‑end cyber resilience services that help organizations prepare for, withstand, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks. Our services cover the full spectrum of strategy, governance, architecture and implementation, and are tailored to each organization’s risk profile, regulatory obligations, and critical business services.

      Cyber Resilience Maturity Assessment & Roadmap

      A structured assessment of cyber resilience capabilities across governance, technology, people and operations. We identify gaps against best practices and regulatory expectations, define critical business services, and develop a prioritized, multi‑year resilience roadmap with clear accountabilities, milestones and KPIs.

      It includes targeted analysis of cyber resilience requirements under NIS2, DORA, as well as sector‑specific supervisory expectations, and international standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 22301 and NIST — translating regulatory requirements into practical, actionable steps.

      Policies, Governance & Frameworks Implementation

      Design and implementation of strategies, policies, standards and operational frameworks related to cyber resilience. This includes cyber resilience strategies, governance structures for incident response and crisis management, escalation and decision‑making models, as well as integration with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and operational resilience programs.

      Board & Executive‑Level Training

      Στοχευμένη εκπαίδευση και εργαστήρια για Διοικητικά Συμβούλια και ανώτατα στελέχη, με στόχο την ενίσχυση της εποπτείας της κυβερνοανθεκτικότητας.

      Τα θέματα περιλαμβάνουν:

      • Regulatory obligations and what they mean for the Board of Directors
      • Decision‑making during cyber crises
      • Roles and responsibilities in a cyber resilience environment
      • Interpreting resilience metrics to support informed governance and accountability

      Business Continuity, Restoration & Disaster Recovery Planning

      Design and enhancement of Cyber Incident Response Plans, Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), Cyber Response and Recovery Plans (RRPs), and Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs). All plans are fully aligned with the cyber threat landscape, based on specific scenarios, and mapped to the organization’s critical business services, Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), and regulatory tolerance thresholds.

      Resilience Architecture Review, Assessment & Enhancement

      Assessment and enhancement of IT/OT security architectures to support resilience‑by‑design. The process includes evaluating and strengthening identity and access management, network segmentation, Zero Trust architecture design and implementation, backup and recovery strategies, log collection and analysis, and detection engineering. It also involves reducing single points of failure to limit the blast radius during cyberattacks.

      Threat Analysis & Detection

      Proactive, threat‑led services for identifying cyber threats, based on a deep understanding of attackers’ tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPs) and tools. The approach includes leveraging cyber threat intelligence (CTI), mapping threats to their business impact, and hypothesis‑driven cyber threat hunting aimed at identifying advanced, hidden or stealthy threats before they lead to significant operational damage.

      The purpose of these services is to help answer a critical question for any organization:
      “Is my network infrastructure already compromised?”

      Security Testing & Cyberattack Simulation

      Validation of an organization’s detection and response capabilities through vulnerability assessments (VA), penetration testing, and red teaming / purple teaming. These exercises are based on real‑world threats and focus on realistic cyberattack techniques targeting critical assets and business impact, rather than isolated technical findings.

      Tabletop Exercises & Cyber Wargames

      Design and execution of tabletop exercises and cyber wargames for both executive leadership and operational/technical teams, aimed at testing cyber incident response, business continuity and recovery plans. These exercises strengthen the organization’s operational “muscle memory” and validate plans, roles and recovery assumptions. They support effective decision‑making under pressure, escalation, coordination and communication — all within realistic cyberattack scenarios.

      Cyber Incident Response & Digital Forensics

      Through our services, we help organizations properly prepare for the management and handling of a cyberattack. We enable them to detect and identify cyber incidents through the development of detection mechanisms (detection engineering), limit an attacker’s lateral movement, and respond effectively. We support the recovery process while leveraging insights gained during the incident to continuously improve both the response team and the organization’s overall cybersecurity posture.

      We provide cyber incident management services following six phases:

      • Preparation

        (Readiness through action plans, procedures, appropriate technology, and training)

      • Identification

        (Detection, analysis and reporting of a cyber incident)

      • Containment

        (Initiation of response actions)

      • Eradication

        (Termination and removal of the threat)

      • System Recovery

        (Readiness for restoration and re‑operation of systems and services)

      • Lessons Learned & Post‑Incident Actions

        (Completion of the process, adoption of protective and improvement measures)

      Additionally, the services include crisis coordination and decision‑making support, digital forensics, root cause analysis, regulatory and legal support, as well as post‑incident reviews to capture lessons learned and strengthen future resilience.

      Why Leading Organizations Choose Us

      We combine global cyber resilience expertise with deep industry knowledge, delivering best practices and business‑aligned solutions. Our approach does not focus on perfect prevention, but on the disciplined ability to maintain operations when prevention fails — helping organizations remain resilient, compliant and trustworthy in an increasingly hostile digital environment.

      Cyber Ready. Business Steady.

      And that is why the shift from cybersecurity to cyber resilience is not a choice — it is a necessity.

      Mission ready - Cyber Resilience

      Contact

      Spyros Papageorgiou
      Spyros Papageorgiou

      Partner, Technology & Transformation, Head of Cyber Security

      KPMG in Greece