
Improve your organizations risk posture, ensure your cyber resilience, and satisfy key regulatory expectations in the process by implementing and certifying Sheltered Harbor’s industry-developed standards for data protection and recovery. The Gold Standard for Robust Resilience and Rapid Business Recovery.
















Sheltered Harbor’s standards enable compliance with FFIEC expectations that when a financial institution's primary and backup systems are inoperable or corrupted, customers will still be able to access their accounts.

Sheltered Harbor promotes the stability of the U.S. financial markets by enabling industry participants to protect critical information and facilitate the rapid recovery of such information following an incident.

Recovering from a cyber-attack that would compromise the integrity of critical business data on an industry-wide scale is a challenge that illustrates the need for coordination in today’s highly interconnected financial sector. Sheltered Harbor’s Standards ensure that all affected parties have the ability to revert to uncompromised data.

Sheltered Harbor's standards ensure that there are standardized, developed practices and frameworks to support recovery and restoration of critical data that prioritizes data security and resiliency in preparation for the unthinkable.

Sheltered Harbor’s standards enable compliance with FFIEC expectations of financial institutions to demonstrate their ability to recover critical activities quickly.

Sheltered Harbor’s standards enable compliance with FFIEC expectations of financial institutions to protect their offline data backups from destructive malware or other threats that may corrupt production and online backup versions of data and to protect critical customer account information like the account numbers, customer names, addresses, account status and account balances.

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Sheltered Harbor’s standards are designed to help financial institutions plan for and recover from catastrophic events, enabling them to continue to provide essential services until normal operations can be reestablished.

Sheltered Harbor’s standards enable compliance with FFIEC expectations of financial institutions to maintain data confidentiality, integrity and availability, important to recovering critical business functions with uncompromised data, in the event of disruptions.

Sheltered Harbor's standards enable compliance with FFIEC expectations to ensure management has implemented data and cyber resilience measures that protect offline data backups from destructive malware that may corrupt production and online backup versions of data.

Sheltered Harbor is a U.S. financial sector-led initiative designed to improve the resilience of and preserve public confidence in the U.S. financial system, specifically with respect to the integrity of financial data. It functions as a fail-safe to restore financial data for banks and customers in the event of a major disruption.


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Consider whether backup and restoration practices are consistent with industry standards and frameworks, such as Sheltered Harbor, for data vaulting to safeguard critical data in the event of a destructive malware attack.

Sheltered Harbor's standards enable compliance with FFIEC expectations of financial institutions to establish protocols for operational continuity and systems recovery.

Sheltered Harbor's standards enable compliance with FFIEC expectations of financial institutions to implement incident response that helps management minimize the disruption of services or loss of information from an adverse event.

Financial authorities should encourage the industry to join Sheltered Harbor, to advance common standards, to better protect against data integrity attacks such as ransomware.


Sheltered Harbor's data files support compliance with both the Federal Reserve’s requirement for Recovery and Resolution Planning (RRP) as well as The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC’s) bulk data transfer protocol. Financial Institutions that are already RRP/DTCC compliant have a head start on implementing Sheltered Harbor’s standards. Conversely, implementing Sheltered Harbor's standards will also help speed up those processes.