Operational continuity is crucial for organizations at the best of times — and right now, we're a long way from the best of times. The evolving COVID-19 pandemic has introduced extraordinary challenges for individuals and organizations alike, and retaining a semblance of normality amid the mass shift to home working and online service delivery is proving to be an uphill struggle for many businesses.
A crucial part of ensuring operational continuity, or something close to it, throughout the pandemic is cyber resilience — that is, being able to ensure continuity of digital services, from the applications and data that employees need to carry out their duties from home to any customer-facing elements such as e-commerce websites and mobile apps.
But how is the pandemic affecting organizations' cyber resilience — and how can they meet the challenge head on, to mitigate the risks to their business?
Cyber Resilience Is MultifacetedCyber resilience is not only about ensuring that key digital systems and applications continue to be operational. It is about protecting those systems and applications from malicious interference, whether because of digital vandalism or more sophisticated attempts to infiltrate the organizational infrastructure and steal data.
It is also about protecting the organization's online reputation, ensuring that damaging or untrue news stories do not proliferate across social media. The unfolding coronavirus pandemic is having a dramatic impact on organizations' ability to manage all three of these aspects.
VPN Access Turns into a BottleneckOperational availability of core systems and applications has been challenged by the drastic change in working circumstances to which most organizations must adapt. ..
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