Cyber resilience refers to an entitys ability to continuously deliver the intended outcome, despite cyber attacks. It is an organization's ability to prevent, withstand, and recover from cybersecurity incidents. Cyber resilience is intended to enable mission or business objectives that depend on cyber resources to be achieved in a contested cyber environment. It is the ability of an organization to enable business acceleration by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from cyber threats. Building cyber resilience includes making a risk-focused plan that assumes the business will at some point face a breach or an attack. Cyber resilience combines cybersecurity and operational resilience. It refers to an organization’s ability to consistently prevent, respond to, mitigate, and successfully recover from cyber-related incidents.
Key features of cyber resilience include:
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Preparedness: This involves developing and enabling security teams that are hyper-aware, hyper-vigilant, and hyper-capable of keeping the organization safe.
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Response: This involves preparing for, responding to, and recovering from cyber threats in a timely fashion with minimal disruption of operations.
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Adaptability: This involves being able to adapt to known and unknown crises, threats, adversities, and challenges.
The ultimate goal of cyber resilience is to help an organization thrive in the face of adverse conditions such as crisis, pandemic, financial volatility, etc. . Cybersecurity is essential to a cyber resilience strategy. Cybersecurity teams, together with robust tools and policies, help to protect an organization's IT ecosystem—network, hardware, and data—through monitoring, detecting, defending.
