Cyber resilience is crucial

With so many threats on the horizon, no organisation can afford to ignore the potentially devastating effects of a successful hacking attempt. Resilience is important from both a preventative and a curative perspective.

First, a cyber resilience framework can help companies prevent attacks from occurring in the first instance. Successful attacks have a range of consequences – starting with financial loss but extending into reputational damage that can be extremely hard to recover from. Furthermore, it can take years before an attack is detected.

However, cyber resilience is not just about preventative measures. Resilience against cybercrime also involves the ability to recover from incidents as rapidly as possible, minimising the damage done during an attack – and reassuring customers, business partners, and investors that the losses associated with an attack have been contained.

Developing a cyber resilience strategy

Every organisation faces different cybersecurity risks, but the core aspects of building a cyber resilience framework remain the same. Throughout our experience in offering security solutions to enterprises around the world we have found that the following four-point are core building blocks for robust cyber resilience: