In cybersecurity as in most jobs, problems don’t happen one at a time, you’re bound to have a few at once. Speakers at the RSA Conference 2021 talked about this in terms of maintaining cyber resilience in chaos. So, what does the buzzword ‘cyber resilience’ really mean? And why is it important to be able to embrace chaos in your day-to-day work?
Cyber attacks are on the rise. Between June 2019 and June 2020, the Ponemon Institute observed a 64% rise in the severity of digital attacks targeting businesses and agencies. It witnessed an even greater increase in the volume of digital attacks during the same period, at 67%.
Even so, none of that prevented defenders from achieving cyber resilience. According to the Ponemon Institute, the proportion of organizations that achieved a high level of cyber resilience increased by more than half from 35% in 2015 to 53% in 2020. The proportion with cybersecurity incident response plans also grew 44% over those five years.
What Is Cyber Resilience?
Cyber resilience means you’re capable of preventing, detecting, containing and responding to a variety of digital threats — at least to some degree. It isn’t binary, after all. It’s a spectrum not only of degree but of aptitude.
Rohit Ghai, CEO of RSA, put it this way in his keynote for RSA Conference 2021:
Being resilient is not good enough. We must be good at resilience. Resilience isn’t just about getting up when you fall. To be good at it, we must fall less often, withstand the fall better and ..
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