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CONTINUITY 90

Return normal decision rights without pretending that residual technical risk has disappeared.

System context

For eleven weeks the CEO has unilaterally reallocated budget, frozen releases and changed access rules. Core services are now largely restored.

Your role

You chair the governance recovery board after a major cyberattack.

Constraints

  • 98.7% of customer operations work again.
  • Two weak controls remain unfixed.
  • The original emergency order has no sunset clause.

Evidence pack

e1

Service state

Only one low-volume workflow remains degraded.

e2

Residual controls

Root cause is confirmed; two preventive controls remain open.

e3

Authority record

No expiry or independent revocation was defined.

e4

Speed metric

Decision cycle time fell 42% under centralisation.

Interactive simulation

Three connected decisions

Return normal decision rights without pretending that residual technical risk has disappeared.

This case, its world, organisations, places and events are original Methodfield material and do not reproduce a protected fictional universe.