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02/12/2020

Cyber Resilience – Everything You (Really) Need to Know

The State of Security

What is cyber resilience? If you search the definition within the Oxford Dictionary, resilience alone is defined as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” If you narrow the definition down to cyber resilience, it shifts to maintaining vs recovery. As noted on Wikipedia, it becomes “the ability to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of faults and challenges to normal operation.”

I spoke with Matt Torrens, the COO at Sprout IT, regarding resilience. He gave me the following definition: “A true cyber resilience approach blends protection, detection, response and recovery to form an organization-wide, collaborative strategy.” As part of this definition, all three elements of the cybersecurity triad—confidentiality, integrity, and availability—are vital to an organization’s resilience. Resilience is essentially a holistic approach to preparing for, responding to, and recovering from an incident.

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