CYBER RESILIENCE,
VERIFIED BY BLOCKCHAIN.

How a 15-minute hack can cost you $8 trillion.

(Yes, I said $8 trillion. Hear me out)

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Let me start with a confession: Before my previous job in digital forensics world, I used to think “cyber attacks” were something only big banks and Fortune 500s worried about. (I also used to think flossing was optional. Turns out I was wrong on both counts.) Today, I go to check the scoreboard and cybercrime is a bigger economy than pretty much every country except the U.S. and China. We’re talking about $8 trillion a year into the black hole of ransomware, data disasters, and all kinds of nastiness. Businesses with less than 500 employees get hit the hardest. 

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Picture this: your entire company’s customer files, creative assets, financial records, CAD files… whatever… gone or locked behind a “Send Bitcoin Now” banner. For days. Usually weeks. This is real life for tens of thousands of businesses a year via 317 million attack attempts. (about 10 attacks fired per second).

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See, we all thought having backups was enough. But attackers target those first. Because once your fallback is gone, you’ve got no Plan B. Suddenly, it’s payday for them. You’re stuck with either paying up or watching your entire operation crash. Either way, you lose. 

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Downtime, Downtime, Downtime.

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Let’s talk about downtime. It’s that gut-wrenching dead zone when your systems are offline, and you’re in total panic mode. This chunk of lost time costs around five to ten times more than the ransom itself. Think about it. You’re hemorrhaging money while your customers and employees are left in the dark. “Pay, or we keep you offline, and you loose even more”.

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So, the real problem we need to solve is, how do we minimize downtime? If you can bounce back fast, like, really fast, attackers have zero leverage. And if they have no leverage, you keep your cash, brand rep, sanity, and the trains run on time. 

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Can we rethink the entire game with the technology raw materials in 2025? I think we can. 

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Put simply, we need to. 

1. Locate and grab the mission-critical stuff. 
2. Encrypt it. 
3. Spread it across multiple places around the world to make sure it’s safe.
4. Use the magic of blockchains to keep everyone honest and secure.

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“Blockchain? Really?” It’s simply the best way to verify stuff without trusting a single person or server.

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Don’t just trust, verify. Every so often, the system checks, “Hey, data, are you still there and intact?” The blockchain says “Yes” or “No”. No single authority, no boss node, no super-admin, no hackable back door. It’s like each piece of the data is wearing an ankle monitor that reports back on it’s status in real time.

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We need an auto-healing network. If something goes missing or a location goes down, data is replicated from the healthy copies. Nobody has to lift a finger. There are no late-night calls or human errors.  

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We must destroy “God Mode” login with zero-trust blockchain-based architecture. Hackers love when they can snag an admin login that controls everything. I say, no. By default, the system can’t trust anyone or anything that can override it. It’s the lifeline for your business.

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Sprinkle in a little compliance readiness because paperwork is the worst. Imagine explaining to regulators, “Yes, we do have backups, but the hacker blew through it..?” Yeah, not fun. If you have verifiable proof as real-time reporting that data is secure and intact, I could see a world where this becomes the norm for compliance and possibly also lower your cyber insurance bill. It’s like having receipts ready for every “But are you sure?” question. 

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So, why does all this matter? It’s pretty simple. If you can recover your systems fast, you don’t have to beg criminals to let you back in. Paying ransom goes from a desperate only option to “why would I bother?” Once the criminals see that ransoms are not being paid their entire business model starts to wobble and hopefully crash.  

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To recap the vision.

1. Downtime Reduction: You stay online, so you don’t lose customers or your mind.
2. Lower Ransom Payouts: Hackers lose leverage. No more big-money extortion.
3. Economic Incentives: Insurers reward you, regulators chill out, and your CFO might actually smile.
4. A Resilient Digital Ecosystem: If enough of us adopt systems like this, hackers will have to find a new hobby. 

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At the end of the day, our goal isn’t to stop every single breach (that’s like trying to eradicate mosquitos worldwide). Our real mission is to knock down the cost of these breaches for everyone. Here’s how will track success:

1. Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR): Can we get you back on your feet in hours, not weeks?
2. Ransom Payout Rates: We want to see that number plummet to zero.
3. Downtime-Related Costs: If a breach happens, you lose less money overall.
4. Systemic Adoption & Global Impact: When more businesses stop paying criminals, the global cost of cybercrime drops. Attackers can’t drive a $8 trillion “economy” if nobody’s buying their extortion demands.

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Look, I’m not trying to impress you with fancy blockchain jargon. (I can barely impress my girlfriend with any of this, but she’s proud anyway, shoutout Maddy.) I just want you to know there’s a way to fight back that doesn’t involve rolling the dice every time you get that 1/6,000 emails, or zero day, or insider threat. We’re building Jackal Recovery to be an actual solution that kicks downtime to the curb, starves ransom demands, and maybe, just maybe, helps us all sleep a little better at night.

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So if you’re sick of the constant anxiety and the “Oh God, what if it all goes down tomorrow?” feeling, welcome to Jackal Respawn. We can’t stop attacks from happening in the first place, but we sure as heck can take the sting out of them, and maybe change the future economics of cybercrime while we’re at it. That’s the energy we’re putting out there. That’s the intention. And if you’re still reading this, I hope you’ll join us.

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Patrick Dunlop

CEO 

Jackal Labs