Blog · 6 min read

Security, Continuity, and Resilience for Captives

By Anupam Tandon · July 2025

TL;DR

Captives need access discipline, continuity plans, and drills. Resilience is part of earning core mandates.

Security, continuity, and resilience for captives

If India touches core systems, HQ will ask how you handle access loss, office disruption, cyber events, and key-person risk. “We will figure it out” is not an answer.

Minimum bar

Joiner/mover/leaver access process that actually runs
Laptop and identity baselines
Continuity plan for office and network disruption
Escalation tree to global security and site leadership
Backups for critical people knowledge (not only critical servers)

Drills beat documents

A plan nobody has practiced is a PDF. Run a tabletop in the first two quarters.

30 / 60 / 90

30: Risk map for the first tower.
60: Access and continuity basics operational.
90: First tabletop with written follow-ups.

Takeaway

Resilience is mandate insurance.

Build it while the center is small enough to fix quickly.

“Structure matters, but the first three or four hires decide whether your India team becomes a capability or an expensive supplier.”
— Anupam Tandon, ContextDelta

Want this applied to your roles? Book a discovery call.