Building Resiliency in the Face of Risk
Building resiliency involves designing systems, processes, and organizational frameworks that allow an organization to quickly recover from a cyber incident and continue normal operations. Resilience is more than just having an incident response plan; it’s about creating a culture of preparedness, with both technical and organizational measures in place to support recovery.
Key aspects of building resiliency include:
Redundancy: Ensuring that critical systems and data are backed up and can be quickly restored in case of an attack. This could involve having offsite backups, cloud-based systems, and disaster recovery options.
Business Continuity Planning: Establishing business continuity strategies that allow essential services to remain operational, even in the face of a major cybersecurity incident.
Cyber Hygiene: Regular maintenance of security practices, including software patching, vulnerability management, and user training, to minimize the chances of incidents.
Scenario Testing: Conducting regular tabletop exercises and simulations to test incident response and crisis management plans under realistic conditions.
Building resilience helps minimize downtime, reduces the long-term impact of incidents, and restores organizational functionality faster after a breach.