Cyber Resilience: Moving Beyond the Buzzword

Cyber Resilience is a paradigm larger and more critical than traditional cybersecurity. Organizations with effective Cyber Resilience capabilities have digital operations that can withstand and quickly recover to normal business operations following technical malfunctions, deliberate tampering, and cyberattacks.

But what does it actually mean to be Cyber Resilient? And how do we accomplish it? Security practitioners continue to define the phrase and offer recommendations for implementation.

Cyber Resilience is still relatively new, with several factors pushing it into the mainstream. It is no longer enough to solely rely on a prevention-focused cybersecurity strategy. Organizations must plan for when the inevitable happens, not if. How you plan to respond to an attack is just as important.