Cyber resilience

Cyber resilience is an organization’s ability to anticipate, withstand, recover from and adapt to cyber incidents while continuing to deliver critical services. Prevention asks “how do we stop it?” Resilience assumes it will happen and asks “how fast can we recover, and can we prove it?”

Why it matters at a CIO Cafe table

Terms like Cyber resilience turn up at tables because the disagreement is usually about scope, not definition. Agreeing what the word means is the cheapest way to shorten a decision — which is why every table starts by framing the question in plain language.