Resilience is a fashionable word in a world of economic uncertainty and, at times, confusion, a time in which technology travels at 100 miles per hour, bringing both welcome feelings of possibilities and a disorienting fear of missing out.
True Cyber Resilience Comes From Culture
We hear via TED talks that resilience is never about bouncing back but pushing through, with the realisation that the path is forever changed. We hear the words ‘cyber resilience’ at the King’s Speech and ministers’ talks. We hear the executives echoing the central message of the UK’s national cyber strategy that ‘it is all about resilience’, that ‘it’s inevitable a cyber incident will happen’.
I do not believe cyber resilience is just about a centrally-looked-after monitoring mechanism, or AI-empowered incident response, or a well-rehearsed crisis management simulation in which executives practise making those fundamental reputational decisions, and so on…