You have data. Some of it keeps hackers up at night. The rest just keeps your business running.
Either way, it all matters when the breach hits—and if you don’t know where it lives, how to prioritize it, or how to bring it back online, you’re not in control.
You’re just a bystander at your own company’s collapse.
What You Don’t Know Will Cost You
Data is your business. It’s how you service your clients. It’s how you bill them. It’s how you prove you did what you said you did.
If you don’t know what you’re protecting or recovering, then you’re just hoping someone else does. And when that hope runs out—when the ransomware hits, when the systems go dark—you’re going to have one question screaming in your head:
“What do we need to get back online first?”
If you don’t have the answer, the hackers already won.
The Simple Test No One Does
Ask yourself this:
When’s the last time you reviewed a data inventory or an incident response plan?
If the answer isn’t “within the last year,” then your priorities are upside down.
You’re putting out fires with no water pressure.
And when regulators, lawyers, or insurers come knocking? You’ll be playing defense with no helmet.
This Isn’t About Compliance. It’s About Survival.
You don’t need a checklist. You need a map—of every critical system, every core data set, and every business function you rely on.
If you’re in healthcare, that means patient records, imaging systems, medical billing.
If you’re in retail, that’s POS data, inventory software, customer history.
If you’re in professional services, it’s time tracking, billing systems, sensitive case files.
It doesn’t matter if you’re running construction schedules, tracking licenses, issuing paychecks, or storing code on GitHub—if you don’t know exactly where your critical data lives, and what happens when it disappears, you’re gambling with your business.
And the house always wins.
Want to See What You’re Missing? Start Here.
We’ve built a list—broken down by industry—of the core systems and questions every business leader should be able to answer. Not someday. Today.
- What are your backup priorities?
- Who needs access to what, and how fast?
- What cloud storage do you rely on—really?
- Where is your email hosted? Who controls your access?
- Can you recover the data that proves you’re not negligent?
This is the information that fuels your incident response.
And if you don’t have it, you won’t just lose data.
You’ll lose trust.
You’ll lose contracts.
You’ll lose in court.
Don’t wait until the breach to figure this out.
Get your Cyber Liability Assessment now—and find out if your data is protected, recoverable, and defensible when it matters most.
