Marks & Spencer
£300M · 7 weeks
30% of FY25 operating income.
Your vital activities run. No matter what.
That is the Minimum Vital Company [MVC]
Your business must run during cyber crises.Outages cost 5 to 30% of EBITDA.
The damage is not the outage. It is the days your teams cannot pay suppliers, ship orders, or close the books.
They had plans. They lacked execution. They didn't have a Minimum Vital Company.
WHY THIS MATTERS
They had advanced security & continuity plans: still cost them weeks & hundreds of millions.
Jaguar Land Rover
£195M · 4 weeks
£1.5B in borrowings (Gov backed).
ALSO RECENT
- Samsung· 2024
- Santander· 2024
- Starbucks· 2024
WHY NOW
The math has changed. What used to be rare is now weekly. Up to 30% EBITDA at stake.
FREQUENCY
Weekly
Disclosed ransomware incidents in Europe at publicly listed groups. Not a tail risk. A base rate. Avg Duration 24 days (source Statista).
COST
5 to 30%
Of EBITDA during business freeze. Before reputational damage, customer churn, and regulatory fines.
PARALYSIS
Total blackout
No traceability, no priorities, no chain of command. Teams improvise. Decisions vanish. Damage compounds every hour.
THE ASTRAN ANSWER
The Minimum Vital Company Platform: Your vital activities stay executable, no matter what.
Identify your 5 to 10 most critical processes. Make them executable on an independent platform, with their data, their access controls, and their audit trail. When primary IT goes down, they keep running. When IT comes back, you reconcile.
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PRIMARY IT
DOWN
ALWAYSREADY®
99.99% UP
When primary IT fails, Astran keeps your vital activities running.
Critical processes execute step by step, independently from your IT, on latest data version, fully auditable and secure.
MVC STEP BY STEP
Start with what Finance and Treasury need first.
Critical Payments
- Critical Suppliers
- Payroll
- Debt & Tax
They built their MVC. They expanded it.
WHY THEY TRUST ASTRAN
Everything your security and compliance teams will ask about your MVC.
SOC 2 TYPE II
Certified. Annual external penetration testing. ISO 27001 in progress.
POST-QUANTUM BY DESIGN
Patented AONT-RS architecture. Integrity, Confidentiality & Availability by design.
IMMUTABLE AUDIT TRAIL
Every action traceable, every data versioned. Full evidence for auditors.
START HERE
Start with Finance and Treasury. Expand to your full Minimum Vital Company.
STEP 1 · PILOT
Identify your first critical process. Test it with your team. 8 weeks, ~2h/week. Your MVC starts here.
STEP 2 · 1ST PRODUCTION
About 4 weeks per process. Each represents a critical risk mitigated. Each process is one critical risk removed from your MVC.
STEP 3 · EXPAND
Add processes, same or other vital activities, until your MVC is covered. Expand until your Minimum Vital Company is complete.
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Your vital activities run. No matter what.
That is the Minimum Vital Company [MVC]
