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Why did cyber resilience become a priority for security teams?

The one-minute version: what cyber resilience is, why it moved up the CISO’s list, and how it differs from cybersecurity.

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What is cyber resilience?

Cyber resilience (aka cybersecurity resilience) is the organization’s ability to anticipate, detect, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse cyber events. Organizations adopting cyber resilience — alongside organizational resilience programs across business units — have multiple advantages that play out sequentially in a better company performance:

How companies with resilience react to service disruption/failure (Harvard Business School)

  • Company using resilience principles
  • Company not using resilience principles

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Chart: how companies with resilience react to service disruption or failure, performance over time A schematic with no scale. Both companies hold the same performance until a disruption. The company using resilience principles drops less, recovers sooner and settles above its earlier performance. The company not using them drops further, recovers slowly and settles below it. Four gaps are marked: 1 anticipation, 2 impact gap, 3 recovery gap, 4 outcome gap. The area between the curves after the drop is labelled cumulative advantage. Performance Time Cumulative advantage 1. Anticipation 2. Impact gap 3. Recovery gap 4. Outcome gap
A schematic with no scale. Both companies hold the same performance until a disruption. The company using resilience principles drops less, recovers sooner and settles above its earlier performance; the company not using them drops further, recovers slowly and settles below it. Source: Martin Reeves

Why has cyber resilience become a hot topic?

Cyber resilience became a hot topic due to multiple key reasons:

  1. Increase in Technology footprint
  2. Increase in Technology variety
  3. Constant emerging and persistent threats
  4. Attacks and service disruptions
  5. Reputation and social media impact
  6. Pressure/Expectations from customers
  7. Compliance and Regulatory requirements

What’s the difference between cybersecurity and cyber resilience?

Cyber resilience extends cybersecurity programs with additional capabilities to help the organization better anticipate, detect, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse cyberattacks.

What additional capabilities are needed for a cyber resilience program?

Cyber resilience capabilities may include the improvement of existing controls — such as ensuring better/more frequent scanning your attack surface, better integration of cybersecurity into programs like Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Programs (BCP) and crisis communications, as well as the inclusion of cybersecurity scenarios like ransomware into tabletop exercises and Recovery Point/Time Objective (RPO/RTO) goals. Regulatory requirements such as the DORA Act detail resilience requirements into specific domains for easier adoption.

How can technologies like Axonius help your cyber resilience program?

Axonius provides complete visibility across all your digital assets, allowing security teams to discover all digital assets, identify security gaps, and automate remediation actions.

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Chart: how companies with resilience react to service disruption or failure, performance over time, with points a to d A schematic with no scale. Both companies hold the same performance until a disruption. The company using resilience principles drops less, recovers sooner and settles above its earlier performance. The company not using them drops further, recovers slowly and settles below it. Four gaps are marked: 1 anticipation, 2 impact gap, 3 recovery gap, 4 outcome gap. The area between the curves after the drop is labelled cumulative advantage. Points on the resilient curve: a on the flat line before the drop, b where performance starts to fall, c at the trough, d on the recovery slope. Performance Time Cumulative advantage 1. Anticipation 2. Impact gap 3. Recovery gap 4. Outcome gap a b c d
The section 1 chart with points a to d on the resilient curve. Source: Martin Reeves

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