Semperis, a leader in AI-powered identity security and cyber resilience, today announced the launch of Ready1, a first-of-its-kind enterprise resilience platform designed to bring structure, speed and coordination to cyber crisis management. The release of Ready1 coincides with Semperis’ new global study, The State of Enterprise Cyber Crisis Readiness, which highlights a dangerous gap between perceived readiness and real-world response capabilities.
“Cyberattacks don’t check your calendar — they hit when you’re at your weakest,” said Marty Momdjian, Semperis, EVP, Ready1. “In moments of crisis, it’s not about rising to the occasion, but falling back on the strength of your preparation.”
Key Findings: The Crisis Within the Crisis
Based on a global survey of 1,000 organisations in the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, the report reveals a sobering reality:
- 96% of companies globally say they have a cyber crisis response plan.
- Yet 71% experienced at least one high-impact cyber event that halted critical business functions last year.
- 36% suffered multiple high-impact events.
- 90% activated their enterprise crisis response plan at least once in the past year — some more than 25 times.
- Only 10% report no blockers during incident response.
In the UK specifically, the report highlights that nearly half (49%) of businesses had to activate their crisis response teams up to four times in the past year due to cyber incidents. A further 37% activated their crisis response team five or more times.
Despite frequent testing, most organisations are not battle-ready due to disjointed processes, poor coordination and tool sprawl. Surprisingly, staffing shortages ranked last on the list of blockers.
Top 5 blockers to effective cyber response:
- Cross-team communication gaps (48%)
- Out-of-date response plans (45%)
- Unclear roles and responsibilities (41%)
- Too many disparate tools (40%)
- Staffing shortages (ranked last globally at 39%)
Staffing shortages were only listed as the biggest blocker in Italy and New Zealand. In the US, incident responders ranked outdated response plans and cross-team communications gaps as the biggest blockers. In France and Germany, tool sprawl was the biggest blocker. Cross-team communications gaps was also the top blocker in the UK, Australia, Singapore and Spain.
IT/telecom industries experienced the most high-impact cyber events, followed by energy, travel/transportation, education and healthcare.
“In today’s cyber threat landscape, the ability to respond swiftly and decisively is just as critical as prevention,” said Chris Inglis, the first US National Cyber Director and Semperis Strategic Advisor. “Companies need a command centre for crisis management, ensuring organisations have the playbook, the training and the coordination needed to turn chaos into control.”
Introducing Ready1
Ready1 unifies stakeholders, coordinators and technical teams under one secure platform, ensuring seamless crisis response through preparation, collaboration and enterprise-wide communications.
Built on hundreds of years of combined real-world incident response experience, Ready1 provides:
- A secure command centre with live dashboards and playbook automation
- Real-time coordination across teams and external partners
- Integrated tools for communications, documentation and task tracking
- Always-on readiness through tabletop testing, role-based team building and after-action reviews
On average, enterprises use 20+ disparate tools for cyber crisis response. Ready1 consolidates fragmented crisis management, IR, downtime planning and communication tools into a single, secure, intuitive platform—designed to work even when everything else fails.
“In the healthcare industry, downtime isn’t just an inconvenience, it’s a matter of patient safety,” said Jim Bowie, CISO, Tampa General Hospital. Ready1 is a game-changing all-in-one solution that enables teams to rapidly respond, assess, contain and remediate threats, even when traditional infrastructure fails, because in a crisis, minutes cost millions.
To read the full report and learn more about Ready1, visit Ready1.com.
The research was conducted in partnership with Censuswide.
About Ready1: Powered by Semperis
Ready1 is an enterprise resilience platform built to empower SOC teams and business stakeholders to measure, manage and report cyber preparedness and respond to incidents effectively. Ready1 creates order out of chaos by coordinating and documenting incident response, reducing the risk of prolonged downtime, data exposure, financial loss and regulatory fines.
