Our journey through the factors that make up organizational cyber resilience is almost complete. It’s time to put the puzzle pieces together.
First, a quick look at the issues we’ve covered so far.
The Human Factor
Business Continuity
Disaster Recovery
Crisis Management
Governance
Testing and Training
Privacy
Security By Design
Supply Chain and Third Parties
The Data Lifecycle
Insider Threats
Socio-Economic Trends and Threats
Individually, each of these plays an important role in your cybersecurity and business continuity plans. But their real force of power comes when they are harmonized.
Harmonization vs. Centralization
It’s important to note that “harmonized” is not the same as “centralized”. It’s easy to default to the latter, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. “Harmonization” may have a central point, meeting place or repository, but the actual execution is delegated to individual business functions, with escalation protocols in place if the disruption exceeds the resources of those responsible. “Centralization” can too often be a hive mentality with the hierarchy calling the shots. There is less delegation and decision-makers are likely further away, or even out of touch, from the disruption. That means blind spots, bumbling over b ..
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